Four cops injured after villagers attack police post in Faridabad

Bijendra Ahlawat

Tribune News Service

Faridabad, June 18

Four cops were injured, two of them seriously, when a mob attacked a police post at Chandpur village in Faridabad district on Thursday. A police vehicle and furniture was also damaged in the violence that took place in a protest against the death of a youth in the district jail on Thursday morning. A case has been booked, but no arrest has been made so far.

The incident took place at around  11.30am when about 40 to 50 persons reached the police post at Chandpur village, about 15 kilometers from here. They damaged the vehicles, including a police jeep, parked there, before attacking the cops with sticks, rods and bricks. Four policemen were injured, two of them grievously after being hit on the head. Mobile phones of the cops were allegedly snatched.

Additional police force was rushed to the post after reports reached the police headquarter here, half-an-hour after the incident. The injured cops have been shifted to a hospital, where the condition of two is stated to be serious.

“While a probe has been launched, the accused involved in the incident will be arrested soon,” said a spokesperson of the police department.

It is revealed that villagers from Shahjahanpur were upset over the death of a 22-year-old man, identified as Sonu, in the district jail here under mysterious circumstances. While the police claimed that he had committed suicide inside the jail after being found Covid positive, the kin of the victim claimed that he died of police torture. The youth had been arrested recently after a clash between two groups hailing from Chandpur and Shahjahanpur on June 10. He had been charged with assault on cops who had reached the spot to pacify the situation. Three cops had received minor injuries.

Earlier on Thursday morning, residents of Shahjahanpur reached the district jail at Neemka village here after getting the information of the death. They blocked traffic for over an hour in protest, seeking arrest of the cops responsible for the death. Sonu had allegedly committed suicide by hanging himself in the jail complex this morning.