RAJ KUMAR
Ranchi, July 1: A section of villagers held a Jharkhand policemen hostage for one and a half hours. The incident took place late Friday evening at Dumardaga, a place about 40km from Jharkhand capital in Khunti district.
The team was from the Namkum police station of Ranchi district. It reached the village while tracking the location of a PLFI extremist on the basis of his mobile.
A police team from the Karra police station of Khunti district rescued the team after a dialogue with villagers agitated by late evening police action.
According to villagers, the police team reached the village to interrogate a person in some matter without informing the village head. Even after the villagers inquired, a villager said, the police did not tell anything about the matter.
“The police team forcibly entered Rai Munda’s house in Dumardaga village and snatched away mobile phones from her son-in-law and daughter. When the villagers came to know about this, they started preventing the policemen from leaving. Seeing the villagers gathering, the police team started moving from there. In a hurry, some policemen could not sit in the car. By then the villagers had reached there and stopped them from leaving,” the villager said.
“The villagers surrounded the policemen for a long time and started asking the reason for coming to the village to inquire about the matter. They were seeking information about the case from the police team, but the police could only tell that they had found the location of their mobile phone in some cases. The police only wanted to inquire, but the villagers were not satisfied with the logic of the police,” the villager added.
S.P.(rural) Naushad Alam confirmed the incident saying the situation was properly handled. “Villagers did not identify junior police officials. If the officer-in-charge would have gone to the village, such a situation would not have come,” he said.
