An FIR has been registered against 25 police personnel, including the then SHO Kant Kumar Sharma and members of the Special Operations Group, at Binawar police station in Budaun. They are accused of framing five men in a fabricated narcotics case and illegally detaining them in July 2024.
The accused men—Mohd Mukhtyar, Bilal, Ajit, Ashraf, and Tarnveer, residents of Qutubpur Thara village—were arrested on July 28, 2024, allegedly with opium. However, advocate Mohammad Tasleem Gazi filed a plea revealing the men were detained for two days before being falsely booked. Police had issued a press release claiming their arrest under the NDPS Act, showing photos of alleged drug recovery. The five men spent a month in jail following this.
Gazi stated, “The general diary and FIR registration dates did not match the actual detention dates. CCTV footage proved the men were picked up earlier, confirming illegal confinement.” The Chief Judicial Magistrate (CJM) Budaun, Mohd Tauseef Raza, ordered the filing of a case against the accused police officers and directed an investigation at the Circle Officer level.
Among those named are sub-inspectors Guddu Singh, Sherpal Singh, Summer Singh, Ramnath Kannaujia, and many others from the SOG unit. The current SHO of Binawar has been posted outside the district pending investigation.
A similar case occurred in Agra, where Ankit Gupta was acquitted in June 2023 after being falsely accused of marijuana possession. Gupta spent eight months in jail and claimed police demanded bribes and fabricated the case when he refused.
