Instead of providing security cover to the people, the police personnel themselves are in need of security in Madhya Pradesh. An incident was reported in Panna district on Sunday when a gang of miscreants overpowered policemen posted in the Dial 100 police van and abducted a girl using the police’s van.
The police officials are still clueless regarding the miscreants who committed the crime. "We have formed teams which are out to trace and rescue the girl and arrest the accused," said district Superintendent of Police Riyaz Iqbal. He refused to divulge any further details.
After overpowering three cops, the five miscreants locked them in a jeep and used their (police) vehicle and uniform to abduct a girl.
Another police official said that on Saturday night around 11.36 pm, the accused rang up the police emergency number 100 claiming that a man was lying unresponsive on a road in Bamhurha village, located about 60 kms from the district headquarters.
Two policemen, including an assistant sub-inspector along with a hired driver in a van, reached the spot. However, the man who was lying with his face down suddenly got up and pointed a gun at the security personnel, he said.
The other four accused who were hiding came out and overpowered the policemen and the van driver and tied their hands behind their backs.
The officials, however, denied that the accused took away uniforms and weapons of the policemen. He said the five men then sped off in the policemen's van to the girl's house in Bamhurha and knocked at her door.
When her father opened the door, the men posing as policemen asked him to come along with his daughter to the Amanganj police station in the area, claiming that the family had made a distress call to police for help.
The girl's father said they had not made any such call, but the accused insisted that he and his daughter come along with them, the police official said.
They then took the girl, her father and brother in the van. On the way, they dropped the girl's father and brother and took the girl to the spot where they had tied the policemen and parked the police van there, he said. The accused along with the girl then drove off in a car parked near the spot, he added.