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Patna,(BiharTimes): Four policemen in civilian dress, including a Probationer Sub-Inspector, Shailendra Kumar Singh, thrashed a tailor to death in Rambagh area of Muzaffarpur town on Friday.
According to eyewitnesses Shamsuddin (50) alias Guddu Mian, who was on fast in the month of Ramzan, intervened to separate four people assaulting two youths, Mohammad Mohsin and Mohammad Chunnu, following an altercation.
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As the cops were not in uniform Shamsuddin, who was stitching clothes in his make-shift shop outside the campus of Dharam Samaj Sanskrit College, thought that it was a quarrel and he tried to separate the two groups.
His intervention angered the Probationer SI of the Town police station who was leading the police team. He allegedly pounced on Shamsuddin and thrashed him to death in full public view.
As the incident took place an hour before Friday prayer it took no time for the crowd to gather. Soon the number swelled and people cutting across the caste, community and gender lines took to streets to protest yet another case of the police brutality in the state. The crowd became restive forcing the administration to swing into action.
Local residents attacked the policemen who had come on two motorcycles. The cops escaped to a room of the College and bolted themselves inside a room. Their motorcycles were set ablaze by the furious mob.
IG Gupteshwar Pandey, DIG B S Meena, DM Santosh Kumar Mall and SSP Rajesh Kumar rushed to the spot to bring the situation under control.
The four cops were arrested and criminal proceedings against the SI has been ordered by the IG. A murder case has been lodged against the SI, who has been dismissed from the service.
The Police version is that the four cops went to the College to arrest a criminal. But the unanswered question is why were the Probationer SI and three of his colleagues not in police uniform.
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