bareilly a man wanted for the murder of a couple was held after an encounter by police in mohammadi area of ups kheri district on thursday midnight the accused sustained a bullet injury in his leg and was taken to hospital in an ambulance when he tried to run away from police custody after biting the ear of a police constable indrapal kushwaha 35 had brutally murdered his neighbour ramkrishna kushwaha and his wife guddi devi indrapal a divorcee was a family friend of ramkrishna and used to often visit their house he had an extramarital affair with guddi and had left his wife for her later guddi also severed his relationship with him due to family pressureon april 1 ramkrishna came to know about their affair and after a brief argument he asked indrapal to stay away from his wife on the same night indrapal returned drunk and shot the couple from a pointblank range before escaping kheri ssp vijay dhull had formed multiple teams to nab the accused but they didnt find success until september 9 when police got a tipoff that he was hiding in the forest area near mohammadithe ssp told toi after getting a tipoff we immediately sent two teams to search for indrapal while teams were combing in the area indrapal opened fire at the officials and then police opened fire in retaliation and indrapal was injured by a police bullet and surrendered he was carrying a cash reward of rs 25000 as he had been absconding for over five months