Satish Aditya
Motihari : Police on September 12, 2019, evening, lodged an FIR against 17 named persons and 60 unidentified persons of village Balochak under Chakia police station East Champaran District in North Bihar for assaulting an ASI Dinesh Sharma, and three SAP Jawans on duty on September 11, 2019, at the village.
The FIR was lodged on the statement of ASI, Chakia police station,, Dinesh Sharma, who along with three SAP Jawans were thrashed by a mob on September 11. ASI Sharma is admitted to Sri Krishna Medical College and Hospital (SKMCH), Muzaffarpur, with head injuries.
ASI Sharma, in his statement, has alleged that the accused persons looted his cellphone, Rs 2,500 cash, and made
murderous attack on him and the SAP jawans and held them captive for two hours. The mob also vendalised the
police jeep. Police have arrested four accused : Samira Khatoon, Afjal, Nur Hasan, and Ibadat, and remanded them to judicial
custody. The rest of the accused are evading arrest.
It may be recalled that ASI Sharma along with 3 SAP jawans had gone to the house of one Abid Mian at village Balochak in connection with a complaint he had lodged with police earlier on September 11 about an abandoned two-wheeler near his house. But as soon as the police team reached the village, the relatives of Abid Mian raised an alarm saying that child lifters had come. Soon a mob gathered there and started thrashing the cops. SDPO, Chakia, with additional force reached the village and rescued the cops after two hours.