UP: Cop goes to mediate between brothers, shot dead by one of them

A sub-inspector of the Uttar Pradesh Police was shot dead when he went to mediate a dispute between two brothers near Agra on Wednesday.

One of the men started to run when he saw a team of policemen. When the cops chased him, he fired at them from a country-made pistol, fatally injuring sub-inspector Prashant Yadav, NDTV has reported. The two brothers repprtedly had a dispute over potato harvesting.

CM Yogi Adityanath has expressed his condolences and announced a compensation of ₹ 50 lakh to the family and a government job to a dependent of the policeman.