UP: Police raids man who attacked woman on train, dies in encounter

A woman constable was attacked by a man on board a train last monthin Uttar Pradesh (UP). The accused of this incident was traced by the police and killed in an encounter during a raid in Uttar Pradesh, police said on Friday. Two of the man’s aides got injured in the gunfight and have been […]

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A woman constable was attacked by a man on board a train last monthin Uttar Pradesh (UP). The accused of this incident was traced by the police and killed in an encounter during a raid in Uttar Pradesh, police said on Friday. Two of the man’s aides got injured in the gunfight and have been arrested.

The prime accused in the attack was identified as Anees Khan who was injured in the encounter when the police went to arrest him and died during the treatment. Anees had two more aides with him Azad and Vishambhar Dayal who were arrested by the Police.

What went down in this police raid?

Anees Khan was the main attacker who attacked a female constable on a train last month. The constable was found in a pool of blood on board the Saryu Express near Ayodhya, with injuries to her face and head. She’s now under treatment at a Lucknow hospital.

“We identified and traced the accused based on technical and manual inputs, and a photo that was identified by the victim. Based on this, Ayodhya Police and a special task force conducted a raid on them,” said Raj Karan Nayyar, Senior Superintendent of Police, Ayodhya.

According to Nayyar, the culprits fired at them during the raid which forced the cops to retaliate and fire back. Two of them were injured during the clash while the main accused escaped and tried to flee the scene.

When the Police saw him again, he was asked to surrender, however, he decided to fire at them leading to injuries in retaliatory firing. He later succumbed to his injuries while in treatment.

A policeman also got injured in this operation