BAREILLY: A Bareilly court on Wednesday held a retired sub-inspector guilty of gunning down a 21-year-old college student in Bareilly in 1992 and passing him off as a robber. Yudhisthir Singh, now 64, was sent to jail. The term of his sentence will be spelled out on Friday.
With this, ended a 31-year fight for justice, first waged by the mother of the youth, Mukesh Jauhari, and then by his brothers once she passed away in 2001.
31 yrs on, retd cop convicted for killing in fake encounter
After 31 years of fight for justice by a family in UP led by the mother of a college student who was killed in a fake encounter in 1992 by a sub-inspector (SI), a court in Bareilly pronounced the accused cop guilty of murder on Wednesday. The SI, Yudhisthir Singh, now 64 and retired, was sent to jail by the court of additional district and sessions judge, Pashupati Nath Mishra. The term of his sentence will be spelled out on Friday.
Additional district government counsel, Santosh Srivastava, told TOI soon after the court gave its decision: “The retired SI was found guilty under IPC section 302 (murder). Nineteen witnesses were produced in the case along with sufficient evidence against the accused cop which led to the conviction.” The incident dates back to July 23, 1992, when Mukesh Jauhari, a student of Bareilly’s degree college who was 21 at that time, was shot dead by Singh.
The cop had claimed that Mukesh was robbing a wine shop and he opened fire at him in self-defence. It was later found that Singh had actually shot him inside the Quila thana. After the fake encounter, police tried to show Mukesh as a history-sheeter.
Mukesh’s mother fought for justice for her dead son for nearly a decade and finally, a case was registered in the matter on the Supreme Court’s orders in October 1997. The probe was subsequently handed over to the CB-CID and a charge-sheet was framed against the SI in 2004.
The 67-year-old woman died in August 2001, and the case was pursued further by her family. Three months after the encounter, his father, a government gazetted officer based in Bareilly, had died too, allegedly due to the trauma of losing his son abruptly. Anil Jauhari, one of Mukesh’s brothers, told TOI: “My mother’s last wish was to ensure justice for Mukesh. Our entire family was disturbed after this incident. Our eldest brother, Arvind Jauhari, who has also passed away, was an advocate, and he fought the case after our mother’s death. He had collected a lot of evidence against the SI despite all the obstacles.”
Rakesh Jauhari, another brother, said, “Mukesh had some altercation with SI earlier and the cop wanted to get back at him. On the day of the incident, my brother was brought to the thana after he was shot at by the SI. Police didn’t even take him to the hospital for treatment. Later, we found that police had lodged a fake FIR against my brother alleging that he was robbing a wine shop.”
With this, ended a 31-year fight for justice, first waged by the mother of the youth, Mukesh Jauhari, and then by his brothers once she passed away in 2001.
31 yrs on, retd cop convicted for killing in fake encounter
After 31 years of fight for justice by a family in UP led by the mother of a college student who was killed in a fake encounter in 1992 by a sub-inspector (SI), a court in Bareilly pronounced the accused cop guilty of murder on Wednesday. The SI, Yudhisthir Singh, now 64 and retired, was sent to jail by the court of additional district and sessions judge, Pashupati Nath Mishra. The term of his sentence will be spelled out on Friday.
Additional district government counsel, Santosh Srivastava, told TOI soon after the court gave its decision: “The retired SI was found guilty under IPC section 302 (murder). Nineteen witnesses were produced in the case along with sufficient evidence against the accused cop which led to the conviction.” The incident dates back to July 23, 1992, when Mukesh Jauhari, a student of Bareilly’s degree college who was 21 at that time, was shot dead by Singh.
The cop had claimed that Mukesh was robbing a wine shop and he opened fire at him in self-defence. It was later found that Singh had actually shot him inside the Quila thana. After the fake encounter, police tried to show Mukesh as a history-sheeter.
Mukesh’s mother fought for justice for her dead son for nearly a decade and finally, a case was registered in the matter on the Supreme Court’s orders in October 1997. The probe was subsequently handed over to the CB-CID and a charge-sheet was framed against the SI in 2004.
The 67-year-old woman died in August 2001, and the case was pursued further by her family. Three months after the encounter, his father, a government gazetted officer based in Bareilly, had died too, allegedly due to the trauma of losing his son abruptly. Anil Jauhari, one of Mukesh’s brothers, told TOI: “My mother’s last wish was to ensure justice for Mukesh. Our entire family was disturbed after this incident. Our eldest brother, Arvind Jauhari, who has also passed away, was an advocate, and he fought the case after our mother’s death. He had collected a lot of evidence against the SI despite all the obstacles.”
Rakesh Jauhari, another brother, said, “Mukesh had some altercation with SI earlier and the cop wanted to get back at him. On the day of the incident, my brother was brought to the thana after he was shot at by the SI. Police didn’t even take him to the hospital for treatment. Later, we found that police had lodged a fake FIR against my brother alleging that he was robbing a wine shop.”
