Eight years after two men were killed in an encounter in Agra, the Uttar Pradesh Police have lodged an FIR against 10 people, including two IAS and two IPS officers, alleging that the encounter was fake.

The FIR was lodged last week on the basis of a complaint filed by one of the victims’ wife.

But it is not clear when the complaint was filed. The then district magistrates and SSPs of Agra and Mathura figure in the FIR.

It is alleged that the police picked Ram Khiladi and his nephew Pappu from their Mathura home and killed them near Yamuna in Agra on September 9, 2001.

The police had then, however, claimed that Ram Khiladi and Pappu were members of Bawaria gang and were planning to

execute a crime when they were shot dead in an exchange of fire.

Strangely, no police officer could explain why the case had been registered after eight years and why formers SSPs and district magistrates have been named in the FIR.

“We have registered the case on the direction of DGP headquarters,” said DIG of Agra Braj Bhushan.

But neither state DGP Vikram Singh nor ADG (Law and Order) A K Jain know about the details of the latest FIR.

The IG of Agra, Vijay Kumar, also said he know nothing about the case.

Inspector General (PAC) P K Tiwari, who was then the SP of Agra, and Additional Commissioner of Food and Drug Administration Hari Ram Sharma, who was then SP of Mathura, said they don’t have any knowledge about the case and had never been contacted by anyone in this connection.

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