Baba Siddique’s murder: Other aides of chief gunman Shiv arrested in Pocso case earlier this year | India News – Times of India

LUCKNOW: Among five arrested in Baba Siddique murder case by Uttar Pradesh Special Task Force and Mumbai Crime Branch, four were earlier booked under a Pocso case for harassing a 15-year-old girl from Lucknow.
The FIR was lodged at Kaiserganj police station in Bahriach district on July 17, after which Anurag Kashyap, Akash Srivastava and Gyan Prakash Tripathi alias Omu alias Om Tripathi were arrested, while Akhilendra Pratap Singh, who was absconding, later got a stay from the Supreme Court had submitted. order for his arrest.
On Sunday, UP STF said they had arrested Anurag Kashyap, Akash Srivastava, Gyan Prakash Tripathi and Akhilendra Pratap Singh for making arrangements to help Shiv Kumar Guatam flights to Nepal. All five were arrested from Nanpara police border near Nepal border.
The teenage victim’s uncle told TOI, “My niece lives in Khuram Nagar in Lucknow. She had come to Bahraich’s Gandara, to her maternal grandparents. On the day of Muharram, she was standing by the roadside and witnessed the procession, when Akhilendra, Anurag, Akasha and Omu Tripathi publicly harassed her. They touched her inappropriately and when the girl was confronted, they misbehaved both with her and with other residents who came to the girl’s aid.”
The three accused were released on bail after two weeks in jail, but Akhilendra continued to abscond and was later granted a reprieve from HC after his arrest.
According to an official source, “Akash, Akhilendra and Anurag were taken to the police station on November 1 after creating another ruckus at the Gandara market and were later released on a bail of Rs 20 lakh.”