Kanpur police 'kills' 4 to win praise

Naugaon (Mathura): The agonising wails of young widows coming from the four-walls of a Naugaon village home under Chhata police station, some 40 kms away from Mathura district, explained as to what extent the UP police (read Kanpur police) can go to impress their bosses and brighten their prospects.
Twenty-two-year-old Sunita and 20-year-old Rekha were widowed on September 12 when Sachendi police in Kanpur had killed their husbands in a fake encounter.Sunita's husband, 27-year-old Karan and his cousin Harishchand (22), husband of Rekha, were killed by police when they were returning after delivering marbles in Lucknow.
Sunita has suffered a double blow as her minor brother Gopal (16) was also killed in the same encounter. Having killed these three and another unidentified youth, Kanpur police had claimed to have killed four of the Bawaria criminal tribe near Dilippur village in Sachendi PS, five days before chief minister Mulayam Singh Yadav took the review meeting of the Agra and Kanpur divisions on September 17.
At the review meeting, the CM gave a clean chit to the Kanpur police and patted their back for the recent 40 encounters carried out by them. But investigations done by this correspondent confirmed that the September 12 encounter by the Sachendi police was actually a cold-blooded murder and police had distorted the evidences.
When this correspondent reached Naugaon at about 11.30 am, the entire village was assembled at the residence of the deceased youths. The bereaved fathers (also brothers), Nanua (father of Karan) and Jawahar Singh (father of Harishchand) are still unaware as to what went wrong with their sons.
The two widows are hoping against hopes that their husbands were still alive. Sunita still considers her 'suhaag' as intact and consoles her three minor children that their father would come back one day.