CBI, probing the case, served a third notice to Avinash Reddy, asking him to appear at its Hyderabad office on Monday, but the latter couldn't appear before the agency following his prior programmes.
"I would like to congratulate the police team for this success. Those criminals murdered Umesh Pal and later two police personnel also. In today's encounter, the second murderer was killed," Keshav Prasad Maurya said.
Delhi's Dwarka court on Monday extended the judicial custody of Sahil Gahlot and six others including his father and two cousins, accused in the Nikki Yadav murder case.
"You have seen how dreaded these criminals are, that they are even attacking the police. In response, police had to open fire, in which another criminal was killed," Brajesh Pathak told ANI.
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has arrested an absconding Service Team (Hit Team) member of the banned Popular Front of India (PFI) in the Praveen Nettaru murder case.
Umesh Pal, the prime witness in the 2005 MLA Raju Pal murder case was shot dead by an unidentified man while he was getting out of a Hyundai Creta SUV in Prayagraj, the camera footage showed.