-SATISH HANDA

Two police personnel Kaptan Singh Nehra (42) SPO resident of village Kalawati in Jind district and Ravinder (25) resident of village Baddakhera were attacked by a group of anti-social elements drinking at a distance of hardly 600 meters from police post at Butana during mid night and attacked both policemen on patrolling duty on motorcycle with sharp-edged weapons when intervened by them. The policemen having only a stick failed to face attackers  carrying sharp-edged weapons and their bodies were seen lying on the road in pool of blood and taken to civil hospital where doctors declared both died and during medical examination there were five stabs on head, neck and chest on Kaptan Singh’s body and four stabs on Ravinder’s body. Police also recovered a wine, soda and water bottles from the site. The  post-mortem on body at Sonepal hospital confirmed both died due to stab wounds and registration number of a vehicle was written on one hand of Ravinder, whereas Kaptan Singh was carrying his mobile phone in hand probably tried to convey message of incident to police before death. However, mobile phone of Ravinder was missing. Police registered a case against unidentified killers.

 All senior police officers including Jashandeep Singh Randhawa SP Sonepat, Sandeep Khirwar ADGP cum IGP Rohtak and Manoj Yadav DGP Haryana reached at the spot to investigate matter and eight police teams were deployed to trap killers. Murder mystery was   solved by the police within 15 hours by CIA staff and cyber crime cell and dog squad teams. Police cyber cell tried to locate killers through location of missing Ravinder’s mobile phone and footage of CCTV camera installed on on Gohana-Butana road where a car was seen around that time on way to Jind. Ajit Singh Shekhawat ASP told that police reached up to house of prime accused at Jind started firing at police party when police also started firing at accused and prime accuse Amit involved in large number of criminal activities sustained several bullets was shot dead in encounter with police arrested two other miscreants Sandeep resident of village Bibipur and another youth, whereas five others managed to flee. According to police information, four police personnel CIA Staff Inspector Anil Kumar, Cyber Crime Cell Inspector Prashant, Mndeep ASI and a police constable Rajesh were seriously injured were rushed to the hospital.