A Station House Officer (SHO) was attacked by a group of
four men in Jalandhar at around 1:45am on the intervening night of
Satudary-Sunday when he was on his night domination duty to enforce night
curfew in the district.
SHO Bhargo camp Bhagwant Singh was doing patrolling in Bhargo camp locality when he noticed few youth standing there. He said that when he asked their reason of standing thereby violating the curfew norms, they grievously thrashed him and his security.
After the attack, the victim was admitted at the civil hospital. The police also managed to arrest the two accused including a merchant navy official.
The arrested two youths were identified as Manpreet Singh S/o Ravinder Pal Singh and Kamalpreet Singh S/o Jaspal Singh. However, the two other accused identified as Harmandeep Singh S/o Jaspal Singh and Avtar Singh S/o Ajit Singh fled from the spot.
Meanwhile, the Jalandhar Police are conducting raids to nab remaining two culprits and said they would be behind the bars soon.
When contacted SHO Bhargo Camp, he said, "At around 1:45am, I saw four men venturing outside their homes near Mata Rani Chowk. Subsequently, I went to them and inquired why they were out during the curfew hours. To my surprise they started arguing and hurled abuses on me. While I tried to take them in police custody, one of the youth punched on my nose and I started to bleed. Within few seconds all of them attacked me”.
Meanwhile, my gunman and the driver who was at a distance reached the spot and held the accused. One of the accused also tried to snatch the AK-47 rifle of my gunmen. A PCR van and ACP traffic Harwinder Singh also reached the spot and took control over the situation", said the SHO.
A case under sections 332, 333, 186, 353, 188 and 34 B of IPC has been registered against all the accused at Bhargo Camp Police station.
Meanwhile a similar such incident took place in city on April 3 wherein an Assitant Sub-inspector of rural police was also allegedly thrashed by some locals during the curfew hours. After a minor argument the accused not only thrashed the cop but also plugged his stars from his uniform.
Cops attacked during raid in Abohar
Police officers were attacked in Abohar’s Dhani Chirag area when they went there to raid the premises after receiving a tip-off regarding liquor smuggling. However, on reaching the spot, the armed miscreants present there attacked the raiding policemen and damaged their van. Meanwhile, the police have registered a case and a look out has been issued to arrest the culprits.