Constable Ravinder Singh wrote down the registration variety of the killers’ automotive
Chandigarh:
Haryana Police confirmed Monday that 5 of the six accused within the homicide of two on-duty cops in Sonipat district final week had been arrested. The sixth was killed by police in Jind district.
Identification of the accused was facilitated by one of many murdered cops – Ravinder Singh, 28, who, in a heroic and prescient act, scribbled the registration variety of the accused’s car on his palm earlier than he was killed.
Without that important clue, the police had been going through an uphill battle in figuring out the killers.
The quantity was observed throughout autopsy and gave the police constable’s colleagues an important lead in fixing each his homicide and that of Special Police Officer Kaptan Singh, 43.
“It was basic policing skill that our brave Constable Ravinder Singh displayed before losing his life. He had scribbled the vehicle number on his hand which was noticed during the post-mortem,” Manoj Yadava, Haryana police chief, mentioned.
He additionally mentioned that Ravinder Singh can be really helpful for a posthumous police medal.
Ravinder Singh and Kaptan Singh had been discovered mendacity in a pool of blood final Tuesday. Initial inquiries counsel the 2 encountered the accused as they had been consuming in a automotive parked on the aspect of the Sonipat-Jind street close to the Butana Police Station.
This was regardless of a curfew in place.
The cops tried to interrupt up the consuming, which led to an argument. They had been then attacked with sharp weapons.
After the assault the accused obtained into their car and sped off in the direction of Jind.
In the wake of the homicide of eight Uttar Pradesh cops by the gangster Vikas Dubey, who stays at giant after Friday’s massacre, Haryana Police has reminded cops within the state to stick to present SOPs (normal working procedures) whereas launching an operation or participating a suspect.
“The SOPs already exist and it just needs to be reiterated. Using bulletproof jackets and vehicles during such operation, maintaining secrecy of the details are a few such guidelines which exists,” Manoj Yadava mentioned.