GORAKHPUR: Police on Wednesday arrested one more policeman wanted in connection with the death of Manish Gupta, the Kanpur businessman who was allegedly beaten to death by police in a Gorakhpur hotel recently. With this, the total number of arrests in the case has gone up to five.
The cop was absconding since the police had registered a case of murder in connection with the incident. He was carrying a cash reward of Rs 1 lakh.
“Gorakhpur police arrested the accused suspended head constable Kamlesh Yadav in Gorakhpur when he was planning to surrender in court,” SP city Sonam Kumar told TOI.
On Monday, suspended sub-inspector Rahul Dubey and constable Prashant Kumar were arrested in this connection. Earlier, the police had arrested the main accused of the case, suspended inspector JN Singh and sub-inspector Akshay Mishra. Both were carrying Rs 1 lakh bounty each.
The special investigation team (SIT) of Kanpur police, which is probing the case, had named six policemen as accused and announced bounties of Rs 1 lakh each on them.
On September 27, then Ramgarhtal police station inspector JN Singh, Phalmandi police post in-charge Akshay Mishra, SI Vijay Yadav and three other cops had allegedly barged into a hotel room in Gorakhpur where Gupta was staying with his two friends. Later, police allegedly thrashed them inflicting fatal injuries on Gupta.
