A court in Shahjahanpur has directed the police to register a case against 18 policemen including the then superintendent of police chief in an alleged fake encounter case in which two persons were killed 18 years ago.
Superintendent of Police S. Anand said that following the orders of the court, a case has been registered against 18 policemen at Jalalabad, and the crime branch will conduct a probe.
Ejaz Hasan Khan, the advocate for the aggrieved party, told PTI that on October 3, 2004 two villagers from Chachupur — Prahlad and Dhanpal — under Jalalabad police station were caught by the police on the suspicion of their involvement in cases of dacoity. He said that the police then shot both of them dead, and their bodies were taken away by the police.
