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Eight people, including three teenage boys, were killed, while many others injured, in four separate road accidents in Dinajpur, Barishal and Jashore yesterday.
National Human Rights Commission seeks UP jail firing report Anshul Dixit, an undertrial, shot and killed Mukeem Kala and Meraz Ali, two gangsters, inside the high-security barracks of Chitrakoot jail
The National Human Rights Commission on Tuesday directed the Uttar Pradesh government to submit an action-taken report on the May 14 killing of three prisoners at Chitrakoot jail.
Anshul Dixit, an undertrial, shot and killed Mukeem Kala and Meraz Ali, two gangsters, inside the high-security barracks of Chitrakoot jail before being shot dead by cops, according to police. The families of the trio have alleged planned killing by cops, a charge the police have denied.
Gangster Mukeem Kala, who had been the centrepiece of a communal BJP campaign before the 2017 Uttar Pradesh elections alleging a Hindu exodus from Shamli district for fear of criminals, was shot dead by another inmate at Chitrakoot central jail on Friday, police said.
Anand Kumar, the director-general of the prisons department, said in the afternoon: “Anshul Dixit, an undertrial, shot and killed Mukeem Kala and Meraz Ali, two inmates, inside the high-security barracks of Chitrakoot jail at 10am. He also tried to kill five other inmates. The police rushed to the barracks and tried in vain to control him. They had to fire at him and kill him.”