The Allahabad excessive courtroom has sought studies from senior officers of the Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan Police after conflicting accounts emerged over the arrest of a theft accused from Jaipur and his subsequent involvement in a police encounter in Firozabad, information company PTI reported.A division bench of Justice Ajay Bhanot and Justice Divesh Kumar Samant handed the order whereas listening to a writ petition filed by Riya Gautam, spouse of the accused, Awadhesh. The courtroom directed the extra director basic of police (ADGP), Agra Zone, to file his private affidavit relating to the encounter and requested the commissioner of police (CP), Jaipur, to submit a report on the arrest.Gautam had alleged that on December 5, 2025, round 10pm, police personnel reached the corporate in Jaipur the place her husband labored and took him away with out informing the household. A subsequent Rajasthan Police inquiry acknowledged that Awadhesh was needed in a theft case registered in Firozabad and that he was later despatched to judicial custody there, with Jaipur police personnel accompanying the UP Police crew.The excessive courtroom, nevertheless, famous that the Rajasthan Police account was at variance with the FIR. In accordance with the prosecution’s model, an informer had tipped off the police about Awadhesh’s whereabouts in Firozabad, the place he and a co-accused had been allegedly discovered close to a chilly storage.
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The FIR states that the accused challenged the police and attacked them with firearms, following which Awadhesh sustained a gunshot harm within the ensuing encounter.The petitioner’s counsel alleged earlier than the courtroom that Awadhesh had been injured in a pretend encounter allegedly carried out by police authorities to burnish their credentials. In view of the contrasting accounts, the courtroom directed the ADGP, Agra Zone and CP, Jaipur, to position their studies earlier than it. The order, dated September 2, additionally directed {that a} copy be despatched to the CP, Jaipur, by means of the registrar basic of the Rajasthan excessive courtroom. The matter has been listed for September 17.