Mathura, Dec 10 (PTI) A court here has directed an FIR against 15 policemen in connection with the alleged abduction and fake encounter of a village head from the Farah area, an official said on Wednesday.

The complainant, Gajendra Singh, a native of Koh village in Farah, alleged that a police team led by Hathras Special Operations Group (SOG) in-charge Dheeraj Gautam and Kotwali in-charge Satyendra Singh Raghav barged into his house in the early hours of February 25 and assaulted his son Harendra, the village head, and took him away.

Gajendra Singh claimed that the policemen also took away the phones of Harendra and his wife, and Rs 50,000 cash kept in the house.

Gajendra, in his complaint, named several policemen, including sub-inspectors Satyaveer Singh, Ranjit Singh, Radha Krishna,

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