Dehradun, August 05: In what has put question mark on the integrity of Uttarakhand Police, the CBI in its preliminary report claimed that the encounter of Ranvir Singh, a 22-year-old MBA student from Gazhiabad, was a fake.
According to reports, the CBI has clearly rejected the theory presented by the Dehradun police officials that Ranvir had shot at the police and was then killed in retaliatory fire.
The CBI report says that probably Ranvir was shot dead in cold blood. Alternatively, it is also possible that he died during police interrogation as he had numerous injury marks and then later he was shot to make it look like an encounter.
The incident had happened near Ladpur jungles in Dehradun on July 3.
After the forensic examination of the pistol recovered near the body of Ranvir Singh, the CBI also concluded that no single bullet was fired from it, which further raises suspicion over police’ action.
The alleged fake encounter has snowballed into a major political controversy with the Uttrakhand Chief Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal, literally, forced to order CBI inquiry into the incident.
Ranvir’s family has also raised doubts over the impartiality of a probe being conducted by the state police CID.
To ensure that the probe is not ‘influenced’, the Chief Minister had even removed the Dehradun Superintendent of Police and six other policemen were transferred to the police lines.
A case of murder under Section 302 of the Indian Penal Code, against 14 police personnel involved in the encounter, was also registered at Raipur police station.
–Agencies