Terming the conduct of criminal trials in the city ‘atrocious’, the Bombay High Court yesterday hauled up the prosecution in the Lakhan Bhaiya encounter case for dragging its feet. The case involves the 2006-encounter killing of Ramnarayan Gupta alias Lakhan Bhaiya, in which seven persons, including encounter specialist Pradeep Sharma and senior inspector Pradeep Suryavanshi were arrested.

At snail’s pace: Encounter specialist Pradeep Sharma and six others were arrested for the alleged encounter killing of Ramnarayan Gupta alias Lakhan Bhaiya in 2006. file pic