Angry mob burns down police outpost
An eight year old Class IV student of Mahishmari area in Joynagar; South 24-Parganas district, who was on her way to tuition class was missing since yesterday afternoon. The family members along with some some neighbours went to the Police Camp to report the On Duty Police personnel.
Rather than responding quickly, the said Police personnel seemed uninterested and were trying to sidetrack from their responsibility.
Later on the villagers themselves launched a search operation for the missing child and found the child’s body at dawn from a pond at Mahishmari.
Had the Police been active, the child could have been rescued alive, but unfortunately the child paid with her life because the Police were reluctant to perform their duty.
The angry villagers thereafter set ablaze the Police Camp in frustration. Their anger is justified as they feel that the child was raped before murder. If the Police who were in the camp showed some empathy and tried to find the girl yesterday, the girl could have been saved and the same villagers would have garlanded them in appreciation.
Later on the villagers marched towards the Police Station where a scuffle broke out between the villagers and the cops.
The villagers said that the police did not take their allegations seriously when the family approached them after the child went missing.
The Police have arrested one suspect but it was not enough to calm the irritated villagers who laid siege near police station this morning, hours after the body was found.
The whole situation could have been avoided if the Police could have just done their duty in time., said angry local residents.
