A sub-inspector facing a non-bailable warrant for the past 11 years is heading a police station in Jyotiba Phule Nagar even as the district police seem clueless about him and three other policemen allegedly involved in a case relating to the death of a two-year-old boy.

Warrants were issued against sub-inspector Devi Ram Gautam and his three aides after they failed to appear before the court despite several summons. Gautam is currently in-charge of the Siadangali police station and has headed several police stations in the district in the last two years.

Superintendent of Police Prashant Kumar said, “I am not aware of it. I will check out the details with the court”.

According to the prosecution, in 1996, a police team led by Gautam raided the house of one Jabar Singh at village Bahadurpur under Adampur police station in connection with a motorcycle theft. 

As the police team was trying to take Singh with them, his family members resisted. Singh’s wife Sheela entered into a heated argument with the policemen.

In the melee that ensued, her two-year-old son fell from her hands. The injured child was rushed to the hospital where he was declared dead.

Sheela approached senior police officers and requested them to register a case against the cops who had raided their house.

Later, on the directions of senior police officers, an FIR was lodged against four cops, including Gautam, on July 23, 1996, at the Civil Lines police station in Moradabad. Jyotiba Phule Nagar was then a part of Moradabad.

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