RAJ KUMAR
Ranchi, Jan 4: A Jharkhand police official assaulted a retired army personnel working as security guards at Punjab National Bank in Deoghar. The CCTV footage of the incident that took place on Tuesday went viral today on social media and now an organisation of retired defence personnel, the Veteran Organisation, has planned to protest against it tomorrow at Albert Ekka Chowk in the Jharkhand capital.
Mukesh Kumar, who leads the Veteran Organisation in Jharkhand, informed Lagatar24.com sharing the CCTV footage in which a police official was seen assaulting the guard despite the request of bank officials not to do so.
“Retired army personnel Ashok Yadav was assaulted only after he asked the police official and requested him not to enter the bank premises with firearms in accordance with bank rules. The police official crossed the limit when he used abusive language for the lady staff of the bank after they also raised an objection. The police official dragged Yadav to the police station, from where he was sent to jail after some legal formalities,” Kumar said, expressing his concern over the poor treatment of men in uniform in Jharkhand with retired army personnel.
Asked why the organisation inform about the incident to senior officials for action instead of taking the issue on road, Kumar said, “When we brought the matter to the notice of DIG SP Mandal he directed to suspend the concerned police official Ratan Singh but all happened when retired army personnel was jailed.”
Singh could not be contacted for his comment on the matter. A police official in the Jharkhand capital, however, said firearms are part of a uniform for a police official and thus no one can ask him to part it.
