In a stunning occurrence, a man took 23 kids between the ages of a half year and 15 years of age as prisoners for about 10 hours before he was shot dead by the Uttar Pradesh Police.

The man, recognized as Subhash Batham, an inhabitant of Mohamadabad region of Farrukhabad, had invited the youngsters, some of them who are from his own family to the birthday festivity of his one-year-old little girl.

But on Thursday evening, when the kids arrived at his home, Batham bolted them up inside and held everyone at gunpoint. Residents learned that something wasn’t right after the youngsters didn’t get back even after a considerable amount of time.

At the point when a group of the parents came to Batham home, they discovered it bolted from inside. Batham began firing from inside after some neighborhood residents attempted to get the doors opened. He even tossed a low-power bomb from the window.

While the explanation behind his act is as yet a mystery, Batham was a homicide convict, out on bail. While the anguished guardians were holding up outside, he yelled that he had been wrongly confined for the crimes he didn’t commit.

Much after the police showed up, Batham would not free the kids and started taking shots at them. Mohit Agarwal, IGP of Kanpur Area, said that the man held the youngster’s prisoner in the cellar of his home.

He is accepted to have discharged six shots from inside the structure where he imprisoned the children. The inspector general of police said that Batham at first demanded to speak the nearby MLA, but he would not talk to the leader when he showed up.

At long last, after negotiations on the telephone, the commandos of the Anti-Terrorism Squad and police moved in and raged the house. Batham was shot dead in the event, and the 23 kids who were abducted for about 10 hours were liberated without a single physical injury.

UP Additional Secretary Awanish Kumar Awasthi affirmed that Subhash Batham had been killed and that all kids were safeguarded.

After Batham was shot dead, furious villagers turned on his wife, who was attempting to flee. They assaulted her with stones and blocks before police safeguarded and took her to a safe spot. She was admitted to an emergency clinic nearby but doctors failed to treat her of the injuries. She died of wounds on Friday morning.

“She had head wounds and was draining when she was taken to the medical clinic. She had attempted to run,” said senior cop Mohit Agarwal. Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has reported an honor of Rs 10 lakh for the UP Police group that effectively completed the encounter. “All workforce who partook in this activity will be given a certificate of recognition,” said UP Additional Chief Secretary Awanish K Awasthi.