While the world on Sunday celebrated the International Women’s Day, here a woman inspector, who is in-charge of the Rajkanika police station, faced the wrath of a mob and sustained injuries while she was going to prevent the latter from ransacking a licensed liquor shop at Namatara village.
Five other police personnel, including the ASI of Kandiahaat outpost, and a couple of local journalists, sustained injuries in stone pelting and attack. The mob too torched a police vehicle.
Sources said the licenced liquor shop was a hub of nuisance by drunkards and antisocials. Protesting against the shop and sale of liquor in the area, hundreds locals, including women and SHG activists of Namatara village, were organising a procession and going towards the liquor shop to ransack it when they faced resistance from the police.
The irate mob, after seeing the IIC of Rajkanika, pelted stones and started assaulting the police team. As a result, IIC Sandhyarani Behuria, ASI of Kandiahaat police outpost Dhaneswar Behera, driver of Rajkanika police station Kamal Kumar Mallick, constables lK Malla, BK Majhi and BN Mandal sustained injuries. All the injured were rushed to a local hospital.
later, district SP Gajbhiye, along with Pattamundai SDPO Kedarnath Sahu, several IICs and a platoon of police rushed to the spot and controlled the mob. A police case was going to be registered against the locals involved in the incident, stated the SP.
liquor shop owner Krushna Panda alleged that liquor worth of Rs 5 lakh was destroyed and cash of Rs 2 lakh was looted from the counter by the mob.