2002 fake encounter: 13 cops personnel get clean chit

Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Vinod Yadav discharged the 13 policemen, including three sub-inspectors of the Special Staff of East Delhi, terming the case as one with "chequered history".

"This court is of the considered opinion that the cognisance against the accused persons in this case cannot be taken. They are accordingly discharged from this case," the CMM said while accepting the closure report filed by the CBI in the matter.

The police personnel who were accused in the case were sub inspectors Vinay Tyagi, Atul Tyagi and Satish Rana, head constables Satinder Singh, Neeraj Kumar and Nagender and constables Prem Pal Singh, Raj Kumar, Hari Om, Naresh Pal, Sudhir Kumar, Rustam Ahmed and Upender.

All the 13 police personnel, who were part of the special staff team headed by SI Vinay Tyagi, were accused of gunning down notorious criminal Rupender alias Kanu Jat at a house at Pandav Nagar in east Delhi in a fake encounter on January 11, 2002 and also of destroying the evidence in the case.

"The act of the accused persons in going to B-49, Pandav Nagar, Delhi, pursuant to a credible information about Kanu Jat, who was wanted in a number of heinous criminal cases of UP

and pursuant to the telephonic directions received from their superior officer on the face of it appears to be in discharge /purported discharge of their official duties," the court said. (More)