In a shocking incident of lawbreakers losing fear of the khaki in the city, unidentified miscreants barged into the Saheed Nagar police station here and ransacked it late on Sunday night. They also severely thrashed on-duty police personnel.
Four police personnel, including police station IIC Biranchi Narayan Pati and an ASI, were injured in the attack.
As per reports, the miscreants had gone to the police station to lodge a complaint, but, instead, they started beating up the on-duty police personnel and also vandalised the police station.
The miscreants broke the flowerpots and pelted stones at the police personnel.
Sources said that three youths on a motorcycle had an accident with a car at VSS Nagar which led to a brawl. Later, the police rushed to the spot and brought the three youths to the police station.
Later, the car owner along with 20 to 25 of his supporters rushed to the police station and attacked the youths, which was protested by the cops. Enraged by this, the miscreants attacked the policemen with iron rods and lathis and also indulged in heavy brick batting in which an ASI suffered head injuries.
The police scutinised the CCTV footages and have identified the miscreants but are yet to make any arrests.
“All the miscreants were identified based on a probe initiated by us after verifying the CCTV footages. These kinds of activities won’t be tolerated. Stringent action will be taken against all accused,” said Police Commissioner Satyajit Mohanty.
However, the targeting of police personnel, who are supposed to provide security to the citizens, has sent shockwaves among the city residents.