RAJ KUMAR
Ranchi, June 16: Superintendent of Police (city) Subhanshu Jain started a probe into the issue of an attack on an innocent person at the Argora police station on Thursday night.
The SP said that he ‘will submit his report on the matter in three days’ when contacted for his comment on police beating an innocent person at the police station of Jharkhand capital after switching the light off.
A medical representative Vinod Sinha was beaten black and blue at Argora police station yesterday evening. The incident took place when Sinha reached the police station and alleged the police of having their connivance with criminals. He had reached there after people had caught a mobile thief and handed him over to the police station for proper action.
“Two hours after the mobile thief was handed over to police, Sinha reached the police station saying two months ago his mobile phone was also stolen from the Harmu market and such an incident is taking place as police are not active and they have connivance with criminals. Criminals are let off from the police station. As police officials present there heard this, they switched off the light of the police station and beat Sinha black and blue. The light was switched off to ensure that nothing comes in CCTV installed at the police station,” a local resident said.
Officer-in-charge of Argora police station Sanjay Kumar confirmed the incident of an innocent person beaten at the police station but expressed his inability to explain how all this happened.
“I was not at the police station when the incident took place. When I got the information, I rushed. I got Sinha admitted to Sadar Hospital after I noticed him bleeding. When asked Munshi, he pleaded innocence saying Sinha himself banged his head with a table after some argument over poor policing in Argora police station area,” OC Kumar said.
Asked about Sinha, Kumar said: “He is a medical representative.” Probed further, OC Kumar said: “Probe is on in the matter to ascertain what had actually happened. As police are a party in the matter, giving conclusive statements is difficult at this stage.”
A police official said, “Sinha was drunk and calling bad names to the police at the police station.”
The incident came to the fore on the same day when chief minister Hemant Soren organised a meeting of deputy commissioners and superintendents of police across the state stressed upon the need to improve the relationship between the public and police.
