UP govt’s move to seek President’s medal for ADG kicks up a row

A committee comprising top police officers had initially recommended names of Lal and the then SHO of Rajapur police station K K Mishra to DGP Karamvir Singh for the medal,without seeking report from then Chitrakoot SP on the sequence of event and role of various policemen in the encounter,sources said. But then PAC IG V K Gupta,then Chitrakoot DIG Sushil Kumar Singh and then officiating Chitrakoot SP Jugul Kishore wrote to the DGP,objecting to the committee’s recommendation. Gupta and Singh were injured in the encounter.

“After taking into account their objections,some other names were included in the list,” the DGP said. The names were Iqbal Ahmed and Veer Singh,both of whom died in the encounter. The other two policemen who died — Beni Madhav Singh and Shamim Ahmed — were left out of the list because they had “already been awarded the Chief Minister’s medal posthumously”.