Bihar : 400 trainee cops run riot, try to lynch senior
PATNA: In a virtual revolt against senior officers on Friday, around 400 trainee constables, most of them women, went on the rampage in and outside the Police Lines here for more than four hours over the death of a colleague, Savita Pathak (22). Savita was suffering from dengue and was allegedly denied leave.
Not only did the trainees try to lynch DSP Mohammad Mashluddin for denying leave to Savita, they also manhandled Rural SP, City SPs of Patna central and east, and several DSPs when they reached there to pacify them.
Several police officers up to DSP rank were injured in the violence on the premises at Lodipur under the Buddha Colony police station. The trainees were so furious that even SSP Manu Maharaaj could not enter the premises for over 40 minutes around 12.
The trainees alleged that Savita had been suffering from high fever for the last three days but despite that the DSP did not grant her leave. On top of it, he forced her to perform traffic duty near Kargil Chowk.
Savita was taken to a private hospital on Wednesday morning but she died there within a few hours. Chief minister Nitish Kumar has sought a report from DGP KS Dwivedi on the unprecedented incident within three days.
The DGP, who was in Delhi, told a TV channel that the young recruits were yet to be trained and they might have been provoked by someone to protest over their colleague’s death in an indisciplined and violent manner. The DGP has asked DIG (central range) Rajesh Kumar to probe the violence.
As soon as the violence began, the situation turned serious. The bodyguards of senior police officers fired at least four rounds in the air to keep the trainees at bay. All this while, the trainees kept on smashing police vehicles parked on the premises. They also ransacked the office and residence of the sergeant major. Later, they came out of the complex and indulged in acts of vandalism, damaging vehicles and shops in the area.
When they damaged a CCTV camera installed at a nearby temple and tried to take away its hard drive to destroy the evidence, the locals started throwing stones and bricks at them. The trainees then retreated to the Police Lines and hurled stones and bricks at the locals in retaliation. At least 10 people were injured in the attack. Some media persons were also hurt.
courtesy : timesofindia.indiatimes.com
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Another North Goa nightclub sealed; Kejriwal says corruption led to fire tragedy
Panaji (PTI): As part of a crackdown against tourist establishments violating laws and safety norms in the aftermath of the Arpora fire tragedy, Goa authorities on Saturday sealed a renowned club at Vagator and revoked the fire department NOC of another club.
Cafe CO2 Goa, located on a cliff overlooking the Arabian Sea at Vagator beach in North Goa, was sealed. The move came two days after Goya Club, also in Vagator, was shut down for alleged violations of rules.
Elsewhere, campaigning for local body polls, AAP leader Arvind Kejriwal said the fire incident at Birch by Romeo Lane nightclub at Arpora, which claimed 25 lives on December 6, happened because the BJP government in the state was corrupt.
An inspection of Cafe CO2 Goa by a state government-appointed team revealed that the establishment, with a seating capacity of 250, did not possess a no-objection certificate (NOC) of the Fire and Emergency Services Department. The club, which sits atop Ozrant Cliff, also did not have structural stability, the team found.
The Fire and Emergency Services on Saturday also revoked the NOC issued to Diaz Pool Club and Bar at Anjuna as the fire extinguishers installed in the establishment were found to be inadequate, said divisional fire officer Shripad Gawas.
A notice was issued to Nitin Wadhwa, the partner of the club, he said in the order.
Campaigning at Chimbel village near Panaji in support of his party's Zilla Panchayat election candidate, Aam Aadmi Party leader Kejriwal said the nightclub fire at Arpora happened because of the "corruption of the Pramod Sawant-led state government."
"Why this fire incident happened? I read in the newspapers that the nightclub had no occupancy certificate, no building licence, no excise licence, no construction licence or trade licence. The entire club was illegal but still it was going on," he said.
"How could it go on? Couldn't Pramod Sawant or anyone else see it? I was told that hafta (bribe) was being paid," the former Delhi chief minister said.
A person can not work without bribing officials in the coastal state, Kejriwal said, alleging that officers, MLAs and even ministers are accepting bribes.
