A massive community policing was conducted on Monday at a highly remote and vulnerable area Chorehut under Palamu district’s Ramgarh police station, which is still seen as a Red Turf. The activities continued till late on Monday afternoon.
Chorehut is 38 Kms away from Daltonganj and road to it is in a state of disrepair which favours naxals and at present JJMP outfit that comes here only to run in haste when police build pressure on it.
SDPO Sadar Sandip Kumar Gupta led the programme with a team of officers including inspector RR Shahi, officer in charge of
Chainpur police station Sunit Kumar and police of Ramgarh station.
A strong gathering of nearly 250 plus people women outnumbering men attended this programme and it was women in the gathering who said too loudly, “They fear not police but party wala (read extremists)’ to a response of a query by Gupta as to whether villagers still fear police.
These women had a point to say that they do not fear police as their men in the gathering (names withheld for their security) said, “Naxals frequent our village. They give orders to us. On defiance they severely beat us. Their entry should be banned. We need police picket here.”
These men further said, “They demand food for two of their cadres from each house here. It is the woman folks who are to cook food of 2 cadres per house. We are ourselves poor and they eat our BPL food grains.”
Gupta assured the gathering that police have taken effective measures to stall entry of naxals here. He said JJMP’s head Mahesh Bhuiyan would be neutralized. Police would keep close vigil on this Chorehut village and panchayat of this name where comes another 10 villages.
Quite recently police have sent 4 JJMP recruiters to jail, who used to be operative at the command of Mahesh Bhuiyan.
The gathering wanted police to help stop manufacturing illicit liquor which is too rampant an evil here said a villager Sukun Ram.