Cops ambush burglars inside house, 2 held

KANPUR: The police claimed to have captured two miscreants who were in the middle of a burglary in a house in Purana Shivli Road under Kalyanpur police station limits, here on the intervening night of Wednesday and Thursday. The two arrested, along with three others, had come to burgle the house of one Om Narain in the area. The three others, however, managed to flee.
The accused were identified as Ashok, son of Ram Avtar of Kakadeo, and Javed, son of Abdul Majid of Rawatpur.
The incident took place at around 2.30am, on Thursday, when the family members of one Awdhesh Singh, a neighbour of Om Narain, on hearing noises from inside the locked house of the latter, alerted the locals and Kalyanpur police.
"My sons who were studying at that time informed me about the noise coming from the house of my neighbour, Om Narain, who at the time of incident was not present in the house. Sensing trouble, I first alerted the police control room, who passed on the information to Kalyanpur police," said Awdhesh Singh. When cops from Kalyanpur police station reached there and challenged the burglars, one of them opened indiscriminate firing on the police party. The police, in retaliation, also opened fire and managed to catch hold of two miscreants, who by then had slumped on the ground following gunshot wounds. In the meantime, however, their three accomplices managed to flee from the spot.
"The five accused are in the age group of 25-35 years. While two of them have been identified as residents of the city, the cops are gathering clues about those who fled the spot," said DIG, Rajesh Kumar Rai.
Meanwhile, SHO, Kalyanpur, who sustained minor injuries during the encounter was taken to the hospital. Also, the two injured burglars have been admitted in Ursula Horsman Hospital, where they were undergoing treatment.