KANPUR, Oct. 18 -- An alleged fake police encounter has taken 35 years to reach the stage of an FIR against the policemen accused of staging it. Twelve retired policemen have been booked in Kanpur after the Crime Branch-Criminal Investigation Department (CB-CID) found that an encounter claimed by the police in 1991 was fabricated and evidence against 12 arrested men was false.

The FIR was registered at Maharajpur police station on Saturday (October 17) on a complaint by CB-CID inspector Sushil Kumar. The CB-CID inquiry had named 18 policemen, including the then station house officer, Vidyasagar Tripathi, and investigating officer Ramesh Chandra Bhatole. Six of them have since died, leaving 12 to face action.

DCP (East) Satyajit Gupta co...