In a shocking incident that happened in West Bengal, UP police officer from Bihar was brutally beaten to death by a mob on Saturday. This had happened in the late hours of the midnight in West Bengal’s Uttar Dinajpur district in the Goalpokhar police station.
Ashwini Kumar, a police man from Bihar who was the station house officer had been conducting a raid regarding a motorcycle theft case. He had gone with a team of police to nab the accused.
What happened later was a cruel barbaric display. Kumar was surrounded by a mob and mercilessly thrashed to death. He was rescued by police from the Panjipura outpost admitted in hospital soon after which he was pronounced dead. Firoze Alam, Abuzar Alam and Sahinur Khatoon have been arrested in connection with this incident.
However, Kumar’s family refused to take the body after he was accorded gun salute at the police lines, alleging a conspiracy. uestioning as to why the West Bengal Police had not been informed about the raid, they went on to protest against his death. They had only dispersed after the Bihar Police promised that they would be providing a job to Kumar’s kin. Kumar joined the Bihar Police in 1994 and was transferred to Kishanganj a year ago.
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