UP property dealer’s death: Sixth and last accused person arrested in Gorakhpur

The Uttar Pradesh Police on Saturday arrested the sixth accused person in connection with the death of Kanpur property dealer Manish Gupta on September 28, India Today reported.

Additional Director General of Police (Law and Order) Prashant Kumar said that the police arrested the accused person, Sub-Inspector Vijay Yadav, near the Railway Museum in Gorakhpur after receiving a tip-off.

Gupta died during a police raid at his hotel in Gorakhpur on Tuesday. A day later, his wife alleged that he died due to an assault by the police after he objected to their actions. In her complaint, she had named six policemen for allegedly murdering her husband.

The police had earlier claimed that Gupta died after he fell and injured himself in his hotel room. However, they subsequently registered a murder case against the six police personnel.

With Yadav’s arrest, all the accused persons in the case have been taken into custody.

Yadav had come to Gorakhpur as the police were conducting searches at his native place in Jaunpur district, Kumar said. He had been trying to flee to another place, he added.

Apart from Yadav, the other five accused police personnel are Station House Officer Jagat Narain Singh from Amethi, Sub-Inspectors Akshay Kumar Mishra and Rahul Dubey, and constables Kamlesh Kumar Yadav and Prashant…

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