As Dipak, a resident of Salimpur Ahra under Gandhi Maidan police station, and his wife poured kerosene on themselves and on their children the people present in the area caught the duo and informed the police. A police team reached the spot and detained Dipak and his wife. Their two sons, three-year-old Hrithik and one-and-a-half-year-old Roshan, are with their parents in the police station.
He alleged that DSP had been mounting pressure on him for five months to either work as the informer of police or leave Patna.

He said that in 2005, he was involved in some petty crime and had served a prison term even then. But after getting married the same year, he set up a bookshop at the Bakarganj roundabout.

He said his father, who owns a fast food stall at the same place, helped him set up a similar food joint in the area. Deepak said that two months ago the DSP came to the bookshop along with his bodyguards. One of the guards took him to the DSP’s office, where he was beaten up. The officer said he would have to work as informer (mukhbir). When he refused to work as informer the DSP, according to him, threatened him with dire consequences.

Due to non-stop harassment and mental torture, he left Patna. However, he returned to the state capital last week as his family here was facing financial problems. After four months, he opened his book shop again last Saturday. But the officer again came to his shop the same day. The DSP had all information about him.

He said the DSP started slapping and brutally thrashed him in public, asking him to leave the town immediately.

On Monday, Dipak lodged an FIR in the court of Chief Judicial Magistrate, Patna, against the DSP and two of his bodyguards.

After this the DSP tried to put pressure on other book-sellers in the area to give the police in writing that he was extorting money from them. This, Deepak said, compelled him to take the drastic step. However, the DSP refuted his allegations.

Comment

comments...