Villagers torched three police vehicles post murder of ward member
Chapra,3 March,2021 (HS) Agitated over the murder of a ward member, villagers today torched three police vehicles alleging that police did not act in time.. The incident of murder had occurred at Hariharpur under Baniyapur police station last night. Ward member of Bhusav Panchayat Saddam Hussain was to fight for the post of Mukhiya tjis time and had gone for camaigning. In the night of Tuesday itself, he was shot dead and his corpse was today recovered from a field near his house. Three bullets were shot at him. Villagers found it around 10 pm and this was immediately informed to police.
Villagers alleged that police dillydallied and pelted stones on vehicles and torched three vehicles. Police had to make a hasty retreat. Police are camping there and situation is said to be under control.
In another incident, police have arrested a woman on the charge of killing her child. Killer mother has been identified as Babli Khatun of Kutch Bihar district in West Bengal. Rahul Singh of Doriganj had called her. But when he found that Babli has a son, he refused to keep her. Babli then, in a bid to win over Rahul, killed her son and was burying him when villagers saw it and informed the police. Police have sent the corpse for postmortem and Babli has been sent to jail.
