Buxar mob attacks Telangana cops

PATNA: A mob attacked a police team from Telangana and damaged their vehicle on the suspicion of their being kidnappers. The police personnel were in civvies and in a private vehicle.
The incident took place Monday morning when the police team was returning to Telangana from Moharia under Dhansoi police station in Buxar district with one Ramji Ram, who had eloped with a married woman from Medipally police station area on July 1.The woman was recovered from Rajpur police station area in Buxar. Later, Ramji, who earlier worked at a plastic factory at Chenghicherla in Telangana, was arrested. Ramji alighted from the vehicle near Bhagatganj under Kochas police station in Rohtas district on the pretext of answering the call of nature and started fleeing. The cops chased him and forced him to sit in the vehicle. Some local residents suspected the policemen as kidnappers and pelted their vehicles with stones and also thrashed two of them.
Though the cops showed their ID cards, the mob didn’t relent. The situation was brought under control when a police team from Kochas reached the spot. The statements of injured cops — Ram Chandran and Panchalingam — were recorded at the Kochas police station.
The vehicle driver, Ashok Kumar, said the mob looted Rs15,000 and his cellphone. They also didn’t spare a relative of the woman, who was travelling with the police team in another vehicle.
Kochas SHO Dhirendra Kumar Singh said an FIR has been lodged against unidentified people. “Raids are on to arrest the culprits,” he said.