The Tribune (September 29, 1998)
Cops turn looters, Ladwa tense
From Our Correspondent
KURUKSHETRA, Sept 28 — Tension gripped Niwarsi village near Ladwa, 12 km from here and its surrounding area when, according to the villagers, four to five police employees forcibly entered four houses and misbehaved with women on Saturday late night. According to the information, the police employees entered Mela Singh's Haveli and nearby houses. All but one assailant managed to escape from the site, leaving behind chemical powder for producing insensibility, iron rods, their caps, shoes and chappals along with a bullet-proof Gypsy. However, the villagers succeeded in nabbing one policeman, Inderjeet, who was handed over to the police. Following the incident, villagers of the area blocked the Ladwa-Kurukshetra road. Policemen reached the site with lathis to facilitate the lifting of the blockade. But the lathi charge was averted following intervention by the certain leaders, including Mrs Kailasho Saini, MP, Mr Ashok Kumar Arora, MLA, Mr Pawan Garg, president, District Congress Committee, Kurukshetra, Mrs Darshan Kaur Dhillon and Mr Gyan Singh. Mrs Saini said that this incident had proved that the terror created by 'Kaale Kachhewale' gangs in Haryana, had virtually been created by the policemen in khaki uniform. They were looting the people and committing dacoities. The public protectors had become the cause of suffering and terror, she added. She also demanded the dismissal of Bansi Lal's HVP-BJP alliance government without further delay because the law and order situation in Haryana had collapsed, she alleged. The blockade by thousands of people, including women and children, was lifted only when an assurance was given to them that stern action should be taken against found guilty by the District Police Chief, Mr Y.P. Singhal, Deputy Superintendent of Police, Mr K.K. Rao, and the SDM, Mr Lajveer Singh. A police spokesman said that Constable Inderjeet who was posted at the local Civil Lines as a driver, alone had gone to Ladwa under the influence of liquor in a government vehicle. However, after he was nabbed by the people out of fear he told them that there were four to five persons in number.
He was medically examined and arrested under Section 451, IPC, of allegedly house-trespassing in order to commit an offence punishable with imprisonment.
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