The CRPF on Tuesday clarified that the trooper shown on television news channels to be an officer killed in a landmine attack in Aurangabad district of Bihar was a jawan and alive.
CRPF Director General Dilip Trivedi said the personnel being shown on TV is not Deputy Commandant Inderjit Singh, who had succumbed to injuries in the landmine blast on Monday.“The trooper shown on TV channels is our jawan Dilip who is admitted in a hospital in Ranchi and is alive but injured. Sadly, our DC Inderjit has succumbed to his injuries in the attack,” Trivedi said.
The DG also expressed dismay over the “misrepresentation of facts” by the news channels. In a heart wrenching video message flashed across TV channels, Dilip was seen appealing to the Prime Minister, President and DGP to save his life.“I have no doctor with me...I will die...I am losing blood...I have small kids...It has been two hours but there has been no helicopter for me. I have been hit in an IED blast,” Constable Dilip was seen appealing in deep pain in videos being aired on TV channels.
He, however, was identified on news channels as DC Inderjit Singh of CRPF who has already died in the IED attack.Three CRPF personnel, including Inderjit, were killed and seven other security officials injured on Monday when they were defusing a landmine planted by Maoists in Aurangabad district.
A joint team of CRPF and Bihar police was defusing the landmine planted by ultras in Dibra police station area of the district when it exploded. The team reached the area before the bomb disposal squad leading to explosion. The incident took place ahead of the April 10 lok Sabha polls.
A Court of Inquiry has been initiated to ascertain the causes of the incident and any delay in providing medical assistance to the injured personnel.