New Delhi: A Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) court here on Friday convicted 18 Uttarakhand policemen in the killing of a 22-year-old student in Dehradun in a fake gun battle.
CBI Special Judge J.P.S. Malek convicted the policemen who were involved in the Ranbir Singh “encounter” case that rocked the hill state in 2009.
Seven accused, including then inspector Santosh Jaiswal, sub-inspectors Gopal Dutt Bhatt, Rajesh Bisht, Neeraj Kumar, Nitin Chauhan and Chandra Mohan, were convicted on charges of murder.
Ten policemen were convicted for conspiring to murder while one policeman was convicted for creating incorrect records.
The 18 policemen were charge sheeted by the CBI in connection with the case.
They were arrested for gunning down Ranbir Singh, an MBA student from Ghaziabad, July 3, 2009, for allegedly attempting to commit a crime.
The case was transferred to Delhi by the Supreme Court on the plea of Ranbir’s father Ravindra Singh.
