MOTIHARI/PATNA: Seven policemen, including two assistant sub-inspectors (ASIs) and four constables were injured after locals attacked a police team at Sisahani village under the Pakaridayal police station area in East Champaran district on Wednesday.
The police team had gone to the village to enforce lockdown. The injured cops included two women constables and the driver of the police jeep which was also vandalized. All the injured cops have been admitted to Pakaridayal sub-divisional hospital.
East Champaran SP Nawin Chandra Jha and Pakaridayal SDPO Dinesh Kumar Pandey rushed to the village and after a preliminary inquiry of the incident, 20 persons were arrested.
SDPO Pandey said,“All shops in the villages were found open and villagers used to assemble there. The shopkeepers were asked to close the shops and the villagers were chased by police to go inside their houses. In the meantime, some persons came out and attacked the cops with lathis. They were badly beaten up and the jeep was also vandalized. The village is Maoist-hit and more than 25 illegal liquor manufacturing units are running here by anti-social elements. Police suspect that these elements are behind this attack.”
This is not the first incident of attack on policemen or health workers. At least seven incidents of attack on health professionals and police personnel have been reported from the state ever since the nationwide lockdown came into force.
On May 15, a three-member medical team and some cops, including a DSP, suffered serious injuries when they were attacked by a mob at Akauni village in Aurangabad district.
On April 19, a team from a primary health centre was attacked by Chanpatia villagers in West Champaran district.
The police team had gone to the village to enforce lockdown. The injured cops included two women constables and the driver of the police jeep which was also vandalized. All the injured cops have been admitted to Pakaridayal sub-divisional hospital.
East Champaran SP Nawin Chandra Jha and Pakaridayal SDPO Dinesh Kumar Pandey rushed to the village and after a preliminary inquiry of the incident, 20 persons were arrested.
SDPO Pandey said,“All shops in the villages were found open and villagers used to assemble there. The shopkeepers were asked to close the shops and the villagers were chased by police to go inside their houses. In the meantime, some persons came out and attacked the cops with lathis. They were badly beaten up and the jeep was also vandalized. The village is Maoist-hit and more than 25 illegal liquor manufacturing units are running here by anti-social elements. Police suspect that these elements are behind this attack.”
This is not the first incident of attack on policemen or health workers. At least seven incidents of attack on health professionals and police personnel have been reported from the state ever since the nationwide lockdown came into force.
On May 15, a three-member medical team and some cops, including a DSP, suffered serious injuries when they were attacked by a mob at Akauni village in Aurangabad district.
On April 19, a team from a primary health centre was attacked by Chanpatia villagers in West Champaran district.
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