New Delhi, November 12
The UP Police have received a complaint from an Additional District and Sessions Judge posted in Farrukhabad district claiming that unidentified assailants chased him in a car and tried to kill him while he was traveling from Farrukhabad to Noida in October.
The police stated that the complaint was received from Judge Dr Anil Kumar Singhstating that gangster Sunder Bhati could have conspired to kill him, seeking revenge for their conviction.
The police in a statement said that on October 29, while the judge was travelling towards Tappal from Khair area, four to five men in a white Bolero overtook his vehicle and tried to stop him. The vehicle carrying the judge was heading toward Jattari in Khair, when five unidentified men on a Bolero chased him and repeatedly tried to block his path.
When the judge’s car stopped outside the Sofa police outpost, the alleged assailants made a U-turn and sped away.
The police stated that the unknown men were using abusive language, and aiming weapons towards him to stop my vehicle.
In his complaint he further told police during his posting as an Additional Sessions Judge at the District Court in Gautam Buddha Nagar in 2021, he had convicted Sunder Bhati and 11 of his gang members in multiple cases and sentenced them to life imprisonment.
He has suspicion that Sunder Bhati and his gang members have conspired to get me attacked with an intention to kill or take revenge for their conviction and punishment as these persons have never been convicted in spite of having a long criminal antecedents.
The police have lodged FIR under sections 191(1) and (2) (both related to rioting), 109 (attempt to murder), 126(2) (wrongful restraint on way), 352 (intentional insult with intent to provoke breach of peace), 131 (assault or criminal force otherwise than on grave provocation), 125 (act endangering life or personal safety of others), and 61(2) (party to criminal conspiracy) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS).
The Aligarh police stated that they are examining CCTV footage from that day to get more details and identify the men.
