Throwing open challenge before members of the law enforcing agencies, residents of Achnera locality of Taj City attacked the police party which went to arrest some robbers in the late night on Sunday. While half a dozen policemen were injured in the attack, local resident also got two of the suspects forcibly released from police custody. Senior officers who rushed to the spot along with heavy police force so far failed to take any cognizance of the matter. None of the trouble makers who took law in their hand were arrested by the police so far.
Reports said that someone informed the police control in Agra that some miscreants while trying to broke open the shutter of a general merchant shop on Station Road in Achnera locality late on Sunday night. Sub-inspector, Sanjay Dubey, who was on duty at Achnera police station immediately took police team and rushed to the spot to verify the inputs.
He reportedly found it to be true and also traced four suspected youths who were standing near the shop. Sanjay Dubey tried to interrogate them but suddenly two of them escaped on a motorcycle while two others two tried to run away but the police team gave a chase and held them.
Reports further said that when the cops were taking both the suspects to grill them at the police station, one of them raised an alarm following which the local residents who were said to be neighbour of the suspects came out of their houses and attacked the police team.
They reportedly pelted stones and hurled crude bombs from roof top and after injuring the police party, the mob also got both the suspects freed and facilitated their safe escape from the spot. Injured SI and his team members who summoned police force for their help were later shifted to hospital.
Reports also confirmed that when the police team reached along with senior police officers after getting SOS, the local residents staged a demonstration alleging that the cops had brutally assaulted two of the innocent youths in the name of their involvement in the robbery. They also claimed to have just helped the victims otherwise the cops might have killed them showing some `encounter’.
Finding the situation tense, senior officers so far just get a case registered in connection with the Sunday incident against Kapil and Surendra, the two suspects and claimed that arrest would be made after the primarily enquiry into the matter. However, heavy police force has been deployed in the area to avert any fresh clash.