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Personnel of Ayodhya police and Provincial Armed Constabulary (PAC) jawans came to a head when the local police stopped two PAC personnel from going to market to purchase medicines on Wednesday morning.
Senior police officers rushed to the spot and were trying to defuse the situation.
Taking a serious note of the incident, the ADG (PAC) directed his junior officers to initiate action against the guilty.
As per reports, one company of PAC personnel was deputed to assist Ayodhya police in enforcing lockdown and were put up at RD Inter College in Raunahi.
On Wednesday afternoon, some PAC personnel in civvies went for shopping in Suchitaganj market when local cops stopped them citing lockdown. This led to a heated argument after which the police took two PAC jawans to a local police station.
As the news reached the PAC camp in Raunahi, angry jawans swarmed the police station and clashed with local cops to free their colleagues. On learning about the incident, SSP of Ayodhya, Asheesh Tewari, rushed to the spot and sealed the area and efforts were being made to resolve the issue.
The SSP informed his senior officers about the conduct of the PAC jawans so that necessary action could be taken. He also asked Sadar Circle Officer Virendra Vikram to probe the matter and submit a report.
Dismissing any clash inside the police station, Tewari said that two PAC jawans were brought there for violating lockdown norms.
PAC Deputy Commandant Sanjay Kumar told local media persons in Ayodhya that two jawans had gone to purchase medicines from a market when they were detained as they were in plain clothes. He said that the matter was being looked into so that appropriate action could be taken.