Governor Ramesh Bais summoned the Director General of Police, Additional Director General of Police (Operations), Ranchi Deputy Commissioner and Senior Superintendent of Police, Ranchi on Sunday at Raj Bhavan and inquired from them about the incidents that took place in Ranchi on and after 10th June.
The governor asked, what information the administration had about the proposed event, dharna, demonstration, procession and what arrangements did it make. “You have IB, CID and what inputs did the special branch give? How many security personnel and magistrates were present there during the procession?” he questioned.
The Governor further asked, “Why didn't you take any preventive action? Why didn't you use water cannon, rubber bullets and tear gas? There was no provision of these things there. Why?”
The Director General of Police said as per inputs given by IB 150 people were expected to create chaos, to which the Governor asked, police officers and personnel were not even wearing helmets and protective gear, why?
He further asked how many arrests have been made so far and how many FIRs registered. He ordered to find out details of all protestors and those who have been caught, make their names/addresses public, make their hoardings by displaying their photographs at main places in the city so that public could also identify them and help police.
The Governor asked, people who are spreading rumours through or in social media about these incidents, have you identified them and taken any action against them? All such people need to be identified and punished.
The Governor also drew the attention of the Director General of Police to the following incidents that happened in the last week and asked what action has been taken so far. In Gumla, the accused youth of the rapist was burnt alive by the mob. Rajesh Kumar Pal was murdered in a jeweler's shop in Ranchi. In Adityapur, 3 youths were shot dead. Manpreet was shot dead after entering the house after giving testimony in Jamshedpur.
The Governor directed that all this information should be made available to him at the earliest.