SI attacked for telling butcher to close shop

TNN | Updated: Apr 27, 2020, 08:28 IST

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LUCKNOW: A police sub-inspector was attacked by a butcher and his associates under the Ramgaon police station on Saturday when he asked him to shut his meat shop as it was not allowed in the lockdown.
Butcher Abdul Kalim was arrested and a hunt was launched for his five associates.
SP Bahraich Vipin Mishra said on Saturday that when sub-inspector Gaurav Singh saw a crowd at a bucher's shop in Bahgwanpur Mafi village he directed them to disperse.
However, the butcher dd not listen to his pleas and attacked him with a sharp-edged weapon. “When the SI tried to overpower Kalim his aids joined him and they all started beating him up,” Mishra said adding that the SI was rescued by some constables who were patrolling the area. In the meantime, Kalim along with his aides fled from the spot. The SI was rushed to a government hospital.
On the basis of Singh’s complaint, an FIR under relevant sections of the Disaster Management Act and under various IPC sections was lodged against Kalim and his associates Siraj, Shakeena, Neha, Raju, Kismatul.
Meanwhile, 100 policemen have been attacked in the lockdown related incidents in different parts of the state in the last one month. In Moradabad, a group of doctors and medical staff along with cops were attacked when they went to check primary contacts of a Covid-19 patient. Similarly, a mob attacked a police team in Jali Kothi area in Meerut on April 12 when they tried to shift three Covid-19 patients to an isolation ward.
In another incident, a police team was attacked in Bareilly on April 6. Four cops were attacked in Hardoi on April 17.
In another case, two cops sustained injuries when they were attacked by local residents during a raid on illicit liquor units in in Prayagraj on April 19.