A police officer died after he was assaulted and roughed up in by six persons at Jhalerbahar village under Kansabel police station limits of Jashpur district, Additional Superintendent of Police (ASP) Jashpur Neha Pandey informed on Saturday.
All the six accused have been arrested including two police constables of Chhattisgarh police posted in Balrampur, the ASP said.
According to police the accused were in inebriated condition and thrashed the deceased who were identified as Plasyus Ekka (60) resident of Jhalerbahar.
Ekka was posted as station house officer in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh and his retirement was due in a few months,” the station house officer Kansabel informed.
Going by the account of eye witness the SHO further said that the six accused who were on two bikes were crossing Plasyus Ekka’s house around 10 pm on Friday night.
One of the bikes slipped and Plasyus seeing them hitting the ground reached the spot to help. However, due to unknown reasons the accused engaged in hot talks with the deceased and thrashed him badly, the SHO added.
Ekka was then rushed to Holy Cross Hospital Kunkuri, where doctors declared him ‘brought dead’.
The accused arrested on charges of murder had been identified as Virendra Tigga, Amit Tigga, Pratap Tigga, Pankaj Tigga, Anuj Tigga and Praveen Tigga. Virendra and Amit were the police constables posted at Balrampur in Chhattisgarh, the SHO informed.