In Lucknow’s famous Shravan Sahu murder case, on the recommendation of the CBI, the Uttar Pradesh government may have started an investigation against IPS Manzil Saini, but the whole case was the result of police bribery, police-criminal nexus, and negligence of the officers. Although Manzil Saini kept telling herself innocent from the beginning, even in the CBI inquiry, Manzil Saini blamed the entire negligence on the subordinates.
If the constable is a bribe taker and the officer is careless, then the Shravan Sahu murder case takes place which makes the khaki dirty. Shravan Sahu murder case is the result of how Akil Ansari, a criminal lodged in Lucknow jail, made the police a part of his planning.
On October 16, 2015, Sahu’s son Ayush himself was shot dead by Akil Ansari along with his associates in a minor dispute on Temple Road under Thakurganj police station area. Shubham Sahu got a case of murder registered against Akil Ansari and his associates in this case.
When the police started looking for Akil Ansari in the Ayush murder case, it came to know that the next day Akil Ansari was arrested by the Krishna Nagar police with a pistol and sent to jail. The accused, who was being searched by SSP’s SWAT team, Crime Branch and Thakurganj police, was arrested under the Arms Act in Krishnanagar police and quietly sent to jail.
In this case, the role of sub-inspector Anurag Upadhyay, who was posted in Krishna Nagar, came under the scanner. The then SSP also suspended Anurag Upadhyay. Jailed Akil Ansari felt that due to the lobbying of Shravan Sahu, he would be punished by the court, then Shravan Sahu started receiving threats to stop lobbying.
After being released on bail, Ansari hatched a new conspiracy to implicate Sahu himself. With the help of Constables Anil Singh and Dhirendra Yadav posted at Lucknow Crime Branch and Para Police Station, Akil Ansari caught four innocent boys Afzal, Kamran, Anwar and Tamim from Campwell Road, Thakurganj. He was kept in a flat in Daliganj, beaten and tortured. But among these four boys, Afzal’s father Kurban Khan filed a kidnapping case against Akil Ansari. The family members of Tamim also lodged an FIR for kidnapping in Thakurganj police station.
ammunition arranged
But on the other hand, arrangements were made for weapons and on January 10, 2017, SSP’s SWAT team in-charge Dhirendra Shukla sent these 4 people to jail after registering a case under the Arms Act. It is said that the crime branch has caught the shooters of jailed gangster Salim Sohrab and Rustum with guns. The very next day after the arrest of the operatives of Salim gang, Akil Ansari started saying in front of the people that Shravan Sahu had given contract to these shooters of Salim gang to kill him.
The closeness of the police to Akil Ansari was the result of the Thakurganj police station in which a case was registered against Akil Ansari till the kidnapping of the so-called operatives of Salim gang, in the same Thakurganj police station, a case is registered against Shravan Sahu on Akil Ansari’s Tahrir. F.I.R lodged on Shravan Sahu. It was said that he had given contract to the shooters of Salim gang for the murder of Akil Ansari.
When a case was registered against Shravan Sahu, he started knocking on the doors of the officers. Somehow when Shravan Sahu narrated his ordeal to SSP Manzil Saini, the matter came to the notice of the officers. 4 boys sent to jail were released from jail with the help of police.
Akil Ansari was arrested and sent to jail
When the matter came to light, Akil Ansari was arrested and sent to jail. Akil Ansari again started threatening Shravan Sahu from inside the jail. Shravan Sahu kept on trying to meet SSP Manjil Saini on the continuous threats from the jail, pleading for security. But Shravan Sahu did not get protection and then on February 1, 2017, Shravan Sahu was shot dead by bike riders outside his house.
However, Manzil Saini gave a statement in front of the CBI that he had ordered the then RI Shishupal Singh to provide security to Shravan Sahu. But Shishupal clearly told in front of CBI that it was impossible to give gunner without the recommendation of District Security Committee and no order was received from Madam.
The matter caught fire as soon as Shravan Sahu was murdered. Taking action, the then SSP Manzil Saini arrested SWAT in-charge Dhirendra Shukla, Constable Anil Singh and Dhirendra Yadav and sent them to jail and dismissed the policemen.