Rudrapur hospital murder: Main accused injured in encounter and arrested while being brought from Bareilly, father and brother also held; family stops last rites and sits on dharna, SDM orders demolition of kutcha structures at accused's house

Police have arrested the main attacker in Friday's stabbing of a mobile shop owner at the Rudrapur district hospital after an encounter. According to Amar Ujala, he had fled to Bareilly and was planning to escape to Nepal; a team of the Pantnagar kotwali and the SOG caught him at Izzatnagar railway station. According to the police, while being brought to Rudrapur he snatched a pistol, ran and fired at the police on Bareilly Road in the Pulbhatta area; he was shot in the leg in return fire. SSP Ajay Ganapathy said his father and brother had been arrested earlier; three accused have been caught so far and teams are conducting raids for the rest. When the body reached home after the post-mortem on Saturday, the family stopped the last rites and sat on a dharna, demanding the arrest of all the accused and a bulldozer on their house. According to Dainik Jagran, the SDM then ordered the kutcha structures to be demolished and the pucca structures sealed; a notice will be pasted and a JCB has arrived. Police stopped people who set out to block the highway; MLA Shiv Arora pacified them.