A Head Constable posted with the Delhi Police’s Special Cell, Rajpal Kasana, passed away on Saturday evening at AIIMS Trauma Center. Kasana was battling for his life since Monday, after he along with his colleague were injured after being hit by an unidentified vehicle on Barapullah elevated road, while they were chasing the vehicle of an arms smuggler.  He was cremated at Rajpur Village in Ghaziabad on Sunday.

The incident occurred at around 3 pm on Monday, when information was received by Delhi Police that an arms smuggler would be arriving from Gazipur border side to RK Puram via ISBT Sarai

Kale Khan and Barapullah elevated road, Deputy Commissioner of Police (Special Cell) Pramod Singh Kushwah stated.

“A team was constituted including Head Constable Rajpal Kasana and others. Head Constable Rajpal Kasana and HC Mohit Panwar were on their motorcycle when they spotted the suspect in a car near Sarai Kale Khan and started chasing his car.

On reaching Barapullah elevated road, while discreetly keeping a distance from the accused person’s car, another vehicle hit their motorcycle from behind and drove off, leaving them sprawled on the road,” Kushwah stated. 

During the collision, HC Rajpal Kasana sustained severe injuries in his head and HC Mohit Panwar immediately rushed him to AIIMS Trauma Centre, where he lost his life on Saturday. “Rajpal Kasana, a resident of Rajpura village in Ghaziabad enlisted in Delhi Police in the year 1998 and was transferred to Special Cell in 2006. He had played an instrumental role in arrest of Mewati criminal Salli Khan along with his seven associates after exchange of fire in the year 2013.

In this case, Rajpal Kasana got out of turn promotion as Head Constable in this case in the year 2013,” said the DCP.