Senior police personnel posted at Pahadi polices station in Chitrakoot were shunted out for their ‘temerity’ to register a case against district unit BJP chief and other activists, who created a ruckus and assaulted the cops.
SP of Chitrakoot shunted out the police station personnel and later asked Circle Officer, Rajapur to probe the incident thraedbare.
As per reports, Shubham Singh of Prasidhpur area of Pahadi (Chitrakoot) was going on a motorcycle when he collided with a buffalo owned by Bhagwandeen on July 18. last Sunday evening, Veerbhan Singh turned up at Pahadi police station to get a case registered against Bhagwandeen alleging that Subham was not only injured in the accident but a bag containing Rs 2.70 lakh was stolen. Veerbhan was also accompanied by district BJP unit chief Ashok Jatav and over a dozen party activists. .
The agitated leader demanded immediate action against Bhagwandeen but when cops questioned why did they not report the case immediately, they created a ruckus and also manhandled sub-inspectors Shyam Sunder Yadav and lallu Singh.
later, some senior BJP leaders came to the scene and two separate cases - one against the SIs for misbehaving with BJP leaders and the second against Bhagwandeen, were registered by Veerbhan Singh and one Prakash Chandra Pandey respectively.
Trouble started when senior sub-inspector (SSI) of the police station Shyam Sunder Yadav, who was assaulted by the mob, also got a case registered against BJP district chief Ashok Jatav along with Prakash Chandra Pandey, Veerbhan Singh and two dozen other activists.
Sources said that agitated with registration of cases against them, the BJP leaders contacted the SP of Chitrakoot and apprised him of the matter. Taking cognizance of their complaint without taking consent o senior officer, the police chief removed Station House Officer Dharmendra Yadav, SSI Shyam Sunder Yadav and sub-inspector lallu Singh and also ordered a probe into the matter.