The videos showed teams of police searching the fields at night with torches.
Lucknow:
A police officer was killed and a deputy inspector seriously injured after they were attacked by gangsters in the Kasganj district of Uttar Pradesh on Tuesday night.
Reports say the two, Agent Devendra and Deputy Inspector Ashok, were part of a small team of police officers raiding an illegal liquor factory when they were attacked. In the chaos that followed, they were reportedly captured, naked and beaten with sticks.
The policemen who managed to escape raised the alarm and returned with great force.
Videos from the scene show dozens of police officers, some with lathis and others with what appear to be rifles, combing the fields in the middle of the night.
Rays of light from the torches drift from side to side as police call out to each other in a coordinated sweep of the area.
The missing police officers were eventually located, with the help of the villagers, in a field near the village of Nagla Dhimar; they had managed to escape, but not before suffering serious injuries.
One of the videos shows a policeman, it is not clear if it is Devendra or Ashok, covered in blood and with torn clothes.
He can be heard crying out in pain as his colleagues pick him up and take him to the hospital.
Devendra, the bailiff, died from his injuries. The deputy inspector, Ashok, is in critical condition.
The chief minister’s office, Yogi Adityanath, tweeted that there was a “zero-tolerance policy towards crime and criminals” and that those responsible would be held accountable.
“The UP government works on the policy of zero tolerance towards crime and criminals (and) without any compromise of law and order. Immediate and strict measures will be taken against the culprits in question,” the tweet reads.
In an equally shocking incident, in July last year, a team of police officers went to Bikru village in Kanpur district to arrest wanted gangster Vikas Dubey in an attempted murder case. However, they were ambushed after a local police officer tipped off Dubey, and eight policemen were killed.
After the massacre, Dubey escaped with many of his men. A week later, Dubey, who was located and arrested in Madhya Pradesh, was shot and killed while attempting to escape from police custody after an accident in his transport vehicle.
When images of his bloodied body surfaced in a hospital, opposition leaders, lawyers and activists alleged that the police had killed Dubey to prevent him from revealing his ties to powerful people.
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