Cops beat, injured me: Migrant worker

JALANDHAR: A migrant worker has accused a group of Punjab Police personnel of thrashing him severely, causing fractures in two of his fingers and other injuries. Some police volunteers were also involved in the act, he claimed.
While the victim, Ajay Mishra, a native of Sitamarhi district in Bihar, said at least one of his assaulters wore a t-shirt, the local police said he had an issue with a police volunteer and it has already been settled.
Mishra, who lives in a building in New Gobind Nagar, Peer Gujjan here, however, said after he fell down due to thrashing, a policeman helped him reach the civil hospital by calling an ambulance.
According to the victim, the incident took place on May 21 evening when he was waiting at a hand pump to take a bath, where a woman was washing her utensils.
But, as a woman police person saw him standing there, she asked him to go away.
When he insisted that there was no other hand pump near his room, she called out more policemen, who thrashed him badly, he claimed.
Doctors at the hospital told him that his two fingers had got fractured and there were some other injuries, too, he said.