Haridwar, Dec. 29 -- Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Haridwar, Uttarakhand, Pramendra Singh Dobal, constituted a Special Investigation Team (SIT) on Sunday to ensure a fair, transparent, and impartial probe into the Laksar firing incident involving gangster Vinay Tyagi.

The move comes a day after the dreaded gangster died of bullet injuries at AIIMS Rishikesh, three days after he was attacked by bike-borne assailants while being taken under police custody to a court in Laksar near Roorkee on December 24.

The incident took place in the Laksar police station area when Vinay Tyagi was shot at while in police custody. Taking cognisance of the matter, SSP Dobal ordered a detailed investigation from all possible angles and directed that...