Lucknow, Sept 16: Uttar Pradesh government has ordered a CB-CID probe into the June 30 Bansi incident in which police claimed to have killed seven gangsters involved in killing of as many people, state assembly was informed today. Chief Minister Mulayam Singh Yadav made the announcement in this regard while replying to a calling attention motion moved by Samjawadi Party member Kamal Yousuf. Yousuf alleged that the victims in the police encounter at Bansi in Sidharthnagar district were innocent and demanded punishment to the guilty policemen. The district police had gunned down seven alleged gangsters in an encounter claiming that they had killed seven people in the district on June 30.


The then opposition had alleged that it was a "fake" encounter.
Bureau Report