Jhansi (Uttar Pradesh): Samajwadi Party (SP) leader Akhilesh Yadav hit out at the Uttar Pradesh government over Pushpendra Yadav encounter. Pushpendra was shot dead in an encounter on Sunday. He was accused of undertaking illegal sand mining in the area, according to the police.

"The whole Bundelkhand knows this was a fake encounter. In the name of an encounter, a youth was brutally killed. The police say he was running away after stealing a car, there must be some proof of that, in every police station, there are CCTV cameras installed, let the police show his footage," Yadav said at a press conference here on Thursday.