Chandan Verma, accused of murdering four of a family in Uttar Pradesh’s Amethi on October 3, was shot and injured in his leg by a team of police on Saturday morning. Chandan was admitted to a hospital where he is undergoing treatment.
In a statement, the police said Chandan was arrested on October 4. He snatched a police weapon and fired on the police team in an attempt to escape arrest. Chandan was injured in a retaliatory police shootout, they said.
Sunil Kumar, 35, a government school teacher, his 32-year-old wife Poonam, and the couple’s two daughters, Drishti and Lado, were shot dead in the Ahorwa Bhawani area of Amethi.
The brazen wipeout of the Dalit family has drawn widespread denunciation of the state government.
In the wake of the incident, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath condoled the loss of lives. At the same time, the Opposition launched a sharp attack against the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) dispensation over the law and order in the state.
An initial police probe revealed that Poonam had lodged a police complaint against Chandan in Rae Bareli on August 18 under the Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989, and for harassment.
“If anything happens to me or my family, Verma should be held responsible for it,” she had written in the complaint, Amethi Superintendent of Police Anoop Kumar Singh told news agency PTI on Thursday.
It was yet to be determined if the two cases are related, he said.
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