Agra: A lawyer died after falling from the eighth floor during a police raid in connection with a case registered against him late night on Friday, March 1 in Uttar Pradesh's Agra, sources said.
The deceased has been identified as advocate Sunil Sharma. The incident took place at Mangalam Aadhar Apartment located on UPSIDC Road under Sikandra police station limits of Agra. Sunil Sharma was the patron of the Young Advocates Association.
Sources said that a team of police from the New Agra police station raided the advocate in connection with a case in which he was wanted. The deceased was accused of taking hostage and making a deed of marriage, in the said case.
DCP City Suraj Rai said that the advocate had hidden in another flat to escape from the police. While the raid was going on, Sharma fell from the 8th floor of the apartment and died on the spot, Rai said. He said that the investigation in the case is going on, adding that the CCTV cameras are being checked for the footage of the incident.
Advocate Sunil Sharma, patron of the Advocates Association, and his wife Sunita Sharma have been living in flat number 801 of Mangalam Aadhar Apartment for about a month. Sources said that at around 10:45 pm on Friday night, 7-8 cops including a female cop reached the apartment in a vehicle and launched a raid at flat number 801.
Shortly after the police arrived, the sound of someone falling was heard. On this, people walking on the ground floor of the apartment informed the security guard present at the gate. When the guards came running, advocate Sunil Sharma had fallen on the ground floor of flat number 802, sources said. The security guard raised an alarm after which the inmates gathered at the spot.
The cops removed the advocate in the car to the emergency of SN Medical College where the doctors declared him dead.
DCP City Suraj Rai said that on February 2 this year, one Manoj Kumar Sharma, resident of KK Nagar, Amar Vatika, filed a case against Advocate Sunil Kumar Sharma and Mandal President of Youth Advocates Association in New Agra Police Station for fraudulent land acquisition, kidnapping and forced deed of sale. Five people have been named in that case.
It is alleged that on the morning of January 31, 2024, the accused kidnapped the plaintiff Manoj Kumar outside Diwani.
