People unmindful of the extreme dangers of flouting of social distancing now have begun to shout at police, some even use filthy languages against cops who ask them to maintain social distancing.
Sources said a sad episode of this kind happened on Thursday evening when a posse of police force asked a huge gathering of people assembled on the dry river bed of the Koyal not to sit too close to each other and also not to put every other’s health in danger in coronavirus time was rebutted not only with angry reactive shouting at posse of police force but some were found hurling abuses and filthy languages against the cops.
SDPO Sadar Sandip Kumar Gupta said, “Under order of the SP Palamau Ajay Linda police are all out to disintegrate any gathering for enforcing social distancing and in this chain police are keeping strict vigil on the banks of the river Koyal and its bed too in evening.” Gupta said, “Nothing can be more painful than to see such a scene where a cop in this high heat of the day asks people to do social distancing for their own health and the same cop instead of getting appreciation is booed, jeered and abused.” Gupta said, “I have apprised the SP of the unruly and abusive behaviour of the people who so reacted to police’s action which was only for their own lives.”
Linda said, “I have asked my officials to enforce social distancing and other protocols of lock down. No one big or small has any business to put any hurdle or hindrance in the discharge of duty of police.”
He said, “I have asked SDPO Gupta to seek a written complaint from the incharge of this posse of police force that confronted with such unseemly scenes so that an FIR is lodged against the offenders.”
“ Law will take its own course and no one can get away like this,” reiterated Linda.urces said Palamu police want this first of its kind incident here to be contained and curbed with laws of the land as reports of public attacking police/ health workers pour in from many parts of the country at regular interval.