Varanasi, September 30: Nearly a decade after four persons were killed in an alleged fake encounter in adjoining Bhadohi district, nine policemen wanted in the case surrendered before the local court which remanded them to judicial custody.
Chief Judicial Magistrate, Bhadohi, Intakhab Alam yesterday rejected the bail application of the nine policemen and sent them to judicial custody for 14 days.
Twenty-one other policemen involved in the fake encounter in Bhadohi on October 17, 1999 are still on the run and the court directed the police to arrest them.
After filing of the chargesheet in the case on May 1, 2007, the court had issued summons to all the 30 accused policemen but they failed to appear before it.
–PTI