"police-encounter"

Ajay Dwivedi and his brother Dinesh had allegedly attempted rape on the woman and then strangled her in the Malihabad area of the capital on March 18

Naeem was prime suspect in gruesome murder of his stepbrother, his wife and their three children at the latter's residence on January 9

Suspect Mohammad Zahid, alias Sonu, suffered severe injuries in the gunfight late Monday night and was declared dead at the district hospital in Ghazipur in the early hours on Tuesday.

On August 8, a drug trafficker was killed and two others, including a police officer, injured in an encounter with a gang of drug dealers in Nagaon district.

The chief minister had earlier said that the police have been given "full operational liberty" under the ambit of the law to fight criminals.