UP cops out on raid were killed by their own weapons, says autopsy report

Notorious felony Vikas Dubey and his accomplices used the weapons snatched from the police to gun down eight police personnel at Bikru village in Kanpur early on Friday, the autopsy examination confirmed.

Officials additionally stated the post-mortem report corroborated preliminary findings that the felony had used the police weapons to kill them.

Doctors took out AK-47 cartridges from the physique of constable Jitendra Kumar, in response to the autopsy report.

The AK 47 rifle was one of many 5 weapons looted from the policemen in the course of the failed raid on Dubey’s home. The others had been an INSAS rifle, a Glock pistol and two 9 mm pistols. The post-mortem confirmed the bullets went by way of the our bodies of 4 constables, indicating that they had been shot from extraordinarily shut vary, forensic consultants stated.

In addition, the medical doctors retrieved items of .315 and .312 bore bullets, which had been fired from rifles and single or double barrel weapons, the consultants added.

The most seven bullets hit sub-inspector Anoop Kumar Singh, the consultants stated.

Deputy SP Devendra Mishra was shot within the head, chest and legs from shut vary as medical doctors discovered carbon deposits across the wounds, stated officers who had been a part of the investigation.

As a end result, his head was blown off and the ‘neck was reduced to half’, they stated, including there have been deep gashes on his leg and beneath the waist. Bullets hit constable Jitendra Kumar, who was shot 5 occasions, within the palms, chest and waist area. Two bullets went by way of his physique.

Mahesh Yadav, Shivrajpur station officer, was shot within the face, again and chest 5 occasions, in response to the autopsy findings. Four bullets had been discovered lodged within the physique of sub-inspector Nebulal.

The post-mortem additionally confirmed that constable Babloo Kumar was shot within the temple and the chest whereas the physique of Rahul Kumar had 4 gunshot wounds, they stated. Constable Sultan Singh was shot 5 occasions.

Brajesh Shrivastava, Superintendent of police (Rural), stated the rounds and their items recovered in the course of the post-mortem had been being despatched for forensic evaluation.

The forensic consultants on Friday had collected numerous empty bullet casings of various bores from the bottom and terraces of homes to get an understanding of weapons the criminals used to fireplace on the cops.

“They used rifles, guns and country-made-weapons and fired from pistols and big weapons such as AK-47,” stated an official, including a reside AK-47 spherical was discovered on the spot with 9mm rounds.