Unidentified miscreants looted ashram schoolteachers, panchayat workers and their families after entering their residence and making them hostage. They did not spare mangalsutras borne by female members of the families.
According to sources, under the Kikirpal village of Chhindgarh development block, 9 residential units have been constructed on the premises of Ashram School. In these houses teachers and employees of the Ashram school as well as other panchayat workers reside with their families. On the intervening night of Thursday and Friday, some miscreants, carrying sharp edged weapon and pistol, forced their entry into the Ashram school premises located residential units and after making all members of the families hostage at pistol point started searching them.
They snatched valuable whatever they saw in the house and did not even spare the mangalsutra borne by ladies. The miscreants also removed batteries of victims’ mobiles and fled after locking them all in to a room. In the morning, the victims came out after breaking open the window of the room and lodged the report with police at Tongpal Thana. According to victims, the miscreants were 7 to 8 in number and were talking in chaste Hindi. The police are investigating the case further even as no arrest was made in this connection.
Kikirpal village had come into limelight few years back also when some unidentified persons of the same village had killed Chhindgarh Block Resource Coordinator Jaisingh Manjhi, as well as secretary and present district panchayat president Jamuna Manjhi’s brother Pileshwar Manjhi.