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GUWAHATI: The homes of 5 individuals, who had been allegedly thinking about burning down the Batadrava police station in Assam’s Nagaon district on Saturday, had been demolished by way of the management the use of bulldozers.
The locals stated those weren’t unlawful buildings. Officers weren’t to be had for remark. Calls made to Nagaon Deputy Commissioner Nisarg Hivare and Superintendent of Police Leena Doley went unattended.
The police have detained 21 individuals thus far in reference to the vandalization of the police station.
The officer-in-charge of the Batadrava police station was once suspended whilst the opposite group of workers was once ‘reserve-closed’. The district management has ordered a magisterial probe into the incident.
The assault was once perpetrated by way of a mob of masses, which additionally had ladies, in protest in opposition to the alleged custodial dying of a fish dealer, Safiqul Islam. The mob set afire the police station and a few two-wheelers and beat up the law enforcement officials.
Assam’s Director-Normal of Police Bhaskarjyoti Mahanta suspected the assault was once no longer spontaneous however organised.
“The dangerous parts had are available in all bureaucracy – males, ladies, old and young. However the preparedness with which they got here, the ferocious and organised assault they staged on police drive has made us assume deeper,” Mahanta stated.
“We don’t assume those are grieving family of the useless, however as we have now recognized, they had been dangerous characters and their family with felony data. Evidence, incriminating evidences – all burnt down. So, (we) don’t assume this can be a easy action-reaction incident. There’s a lot more to it,” he added.
Mahanta warned that motion can be taken in opposition to any cop discovered to blame and the perpetrators of the crime. “If there’s any foul play at our finish, we imply to search out that and punish the to blame in step with legislation. No two techniques about it,” he stated.
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The spouse of the fish dealer alleged the police had picked him up on Friday evening and demanded Rs 10,000 but even so a duck from him. She stated because the circle of relatives may just have enough money just a duck, the police allegedly beat him up and killed him.
The DGP rubbished her fees. He claimed Islam was once delivered to the police station after receiving a grievance of him being under the influence of alcohol and mendacity on a public highway.
“He was once booked after a clinical checkup. The next day to come, he was once launched and passed over to his spouse. His spouse even gave him some water/meals. Later, he complained of illness and he was once taken to 2 hospitals. Sadly, he was once declared useless,” Mahanta claimed.
