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Bihar history-sheeter with Rs 50,000 bounty shot dead in encounter in UP’s Hapur

The Noida STF and the Bihar Police conducted a joint operation to nab Dabloo Yadav, who was accused of killing an HAM leader.

The shootout occurred in the Simbhaoli police station area, where the team intercepted Yadav after the police received a tip-off about his movement.

The Noida Special Task Force (STF) and the Bihar Police killed Dabloo Yadav, a wanted criminal carrying a reward of Rs 50,000, after a gunfight during a joint operation to nab him in Uttar Pradesh’s Hapur district Monday morning.

The shootout occurred in the Simbhaoli police station area, where the team intercepted Yadav after the police received a tip-off about his movement. The police said Yadav first opened fire at them, leading to a retaliatory firing in which he was shot dead.

Yadav was a native of Sahebpur Kamal in the Begusarai district of Bihar and had been absconding for months in connection with the kidnapping and murder of local Hindustani Awam Morcha (HAM) leader Rakesh Kumar. The police said Yadav allegedly abducted Kumar, the party’s 20-point block president, from the Sahebpur Kamal police station area by Dabloo in April and later killed him. Kumar’s body was later found in a river in the Diara region.

“A reward of Rs 50,000 had been declared for his arrest. He was a key suspect in several other heinous crimes across Bihar,” the Bihar Police said in their statement to the press.

“Yadav was on the run for a long time. Acting on intelligence inputs, our team reached Uttar Pradesh and coordinated with Noida STF. During the operation in Hapur, the accused opened fire and was killed in the retaliatory firing,” the police added.

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