GUWAHATI:
Former president of Dimasa Students’ Community, Guwahati (DSCG), Paisringdao Jorasam, was brutally assaulted by a group of policemen of Assam Police Battalion (APBN) camped at 16th Kilo, Dalmia in Dima Hasao district recently, inviting protest from the student organisation in the city.
A group of nine drunken policemen in civilian dress attached to Dalmia Cement Plant at Umrangso assaulted Jorasa when he was returning home from office. Jorasa is working as a junior manager of Assam Electricity General Corporation Ltd in Umrangso.
Suddenly, another person identified as Raju Bathari, and seven others, all from the police battalion, yelled at him, surrounded him and started beating him and attacking him with blunt weapons.
A police complaint was lodged, and an FIR was registered under sections 341, 325, and 34 of the Indian Penal Code, however, no arrest has so far been made in this connection.
“We are surprised that being a personnel of law enforcement agency they (about 7/8 personnel of Assam Police Battalion) in broad daylight under the influence of liquor assaulted our former president Paisringdao Jorasa on July 24 when he was returning from his duty,” DSCG president Kunal Kemprai and general secretary Blairingdao Kemprai said in a statement here on Friday.
“Such offence committed by counted numbers of police personnel has defamed the police department as a whole and, as such, we humbly request the Superintendent of Police, Dima Hasao to take disciplinary action against them,” the statement said.
“We also appeal to the officer-in-charge, Umrangso Police Station, to arrest the culprit and investigate the case expeditely,” it added.