UP Kasganj Encounter: Zero tolerance! Yogi strike on mafia! What really happened? Current status? Check latest news here

UP Kasganj Encounter Latest News Today: Yogi Adiytanath government has always maintained that it has zero-tolerance policy towards crime in Uttar Pradesh. Now, in a major development, in a strike by Yogi Adityanath government against mafia, the brother of a liquor mafia kingpin whose associates had allegedly killed a police constable and injured a sub-inspector was gunned down in an encounter here early on Wednesday, an official said, as per a report by news agency PTI. Here is what really happened in UP Kasganj Encounter and what is the current status; check latest news here:-

- The brother of a liquor mafia kingpin whose associates had allegedly killed a police constable and injured a sub-inspector was gunned down in an encounter here early on Wednesday, an official said.

- "Elkar and others were surrounded by a police team on the banks of Kali river and in the exchange of fire, he was injured. He was taken to a CHC in Sidhpur where he died," Superintendent of Police, Kasganj, Manoj Sonkar said.

-Elkar, a resident of Nagla Dhimar village in the Sidhpura area in Kasganj, was earlier booked under the Excise Act and was involved in spurious liquor trade with brother Moti Dhimar and others, police said.
Sonkar said Elkar's accomplices managed to escape during the encounter and police are on the lookout to trace them.

- A constable was beaten to death and a sub-inspector seriously injured when a police team went to Nagla Dheemar village to serve a warrant to liquor mafia kingpin Dhimar Tuesday evening.

- Dhimar and his associates caught them and severely thrashed them, resulting in the death of constable Devendra Singh, District Magistrate Chandraprakash Singh had said.

- Sub-inspector Ashok Kumar, who was injured in the attack, is undergoing treatment at a hospital, he added.

-Following the incident, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath had directed officials to take stern action against the culprits under the National Security Act.

- CM Yogi Adityanath announced an ex-gratia of Rs 50 lakh to the kin of the deceased and job to a family member. He has asked for proper treatment of the injured, the spokesperson said.

- He has asked for proper treatment of the injured policeman, a government spokesperson said.

- Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath directed officials to take stern action against the culprits under the National Security Act, according to a government spokesman.