Town police have lodged a criminal case against around half a dozen named and 40 to 50 unidentified people on charges of creating chaos and preventing civil and police officials from their discharge of duties on Thursday when a crowd of people held NH 75 jam for 4 hours, on their alleged provocations, in protest against the knocking down of a 35 year old man Sanjay Prajapati by a police control room van on the night of Wednesday.
Inspector of police cum officer in charge of the town police station Abhay Kumar Sinha has confirmed the institution of the criminal case under various sections of the IPC against nearly half a dozen named and 40 to 50 unidentified people.
The prime accused of this criminal case is Rakesh Kumar Singh who is the secretary of the Autorickshaw Chalak Sangh.
The FIR has been lodged by the incharge ToP 2 Rudranand Saras.
Assistant superintendent of police cum sub divisional police officer Rishabha Garg IPS said law is bound to take its own course as there is a ruling of the High Court that FIR is indispensable in matter where NH jam or blockade has been done to press for demands etc and here too our police have initiated criminal proceeding against those faces who were very instrumental in creating chaos and traffic dislocation on the NH for the bereaved family about which the administration was most concerned about and sensitive to the issues.