Mob attacks police team at E Champaran village, ASI & 2 constables injured

Satish Aditya
Motihari  : Dinesh Sharma, 50, a Police ASI , and two police constables  were brutally assaulted by an unruly mob on September 11, 2019, evening, and  held hostage for two hours at a house at village Balochak under Chakiya police station in East Champaran district in North Bihar.

Police had reached the house of one Abid Mian to inquire into recovery a Scooty found abandoned near his house recently. As soon as the police team reached there  on police jeep, the family members of Abid Mian raised an alarm that  child lifters
had come and soon the villagers gathered there and attacked an ASI and constables.

SHO, Chakiya police station Hriday Narayan Singh, said  that  ASI Sharma sustained  serious injuries in head, abdomen, and hands. The mob also tried to snatch the service revolver from Sharma but the two constables prevented them from doing so. Sharma was held hostage for two hours  and was rescued by SDPO, Chakiya, Shailendra Kumar, who reached the spot with additional forces. ASI Sharma was sent to SKMCH , Muzaffarpur. SDPO Shailendra Kumar said that 4 persons including a
woman had been arrested  in this connection.

In an another incident, Ashok Kumar, 17,  a student of Class 10 and a native of village Rampur Khajuriya, was caught by villagers mostly women at village  Mohammadpur under Kesariya police station in East Champaran district on September 12, 2019, suspecting him to be a child lifter and thrashed him but after intervention of some people he was let free by the mob. That boy was returning  from a coaching institute. He lodged an FIR in this regard with Kesariya police station. SHO, Kesaria PS, Amit Kumar, rushed to the spot and arrested  Rani Devi and Mira Devi in this connection.

Similarly, 3 persons riding a motorcycle were caught by a mob at village Dipau under  Kotawa police station  on suspicion of being child lifters and beaten up mercilessly. But, but they were saved by some people.