Lapses in arrest of bounty gangster Yogesh Bhadauda: SSP recommends suspension of former ITI kotwali in-charge Vikram Rathore to IG

Inspector Vikram Rathore, the former in-charge of ITI kotwali who was sent to police lines over the arrest of gangster Yogesh Bhadauda, carrying a ₹1 lakh bounty, in Kashipur, now faces suspension. According to Amar Ujala, SSP Ajay Ganapathy has recommended his suspension to IG Kumaon Niveditha Kukreti, and the departmental inquiry has been handed to SP Crime Anusha Badola. On July 8, police picked up Yogesh Malik alias Yogesh Bhadauda, of Bhadauda village in Meerut, near a ruin on the Chaiti Mela road with a .315 bore country-made pistol and three cartridges, and registered an FIR only under the Arms Act. He faces 46 cases, including murder and other crimes and under the Gangsters Act, and UP Police had announced a ₹1 lakh reward on him. According to Dainik Jagran, allegations were raised after the arrest that it had been planned (for safe custody), and a preliminary inquiry by the then SP City Uttam Singh Negi held Rathore guilty of this. Rathore has since been transferred to Pithoragarh. (Source: Amar Ujala, Dainik Jagran)