In a strong crackdown on crime, Ranchi Police paraded two criminals involved in assaulting police officers and attempting to snatch their weapons. The accused, Raju Kumar and Deepu Sonkar, were publicly marched before being sent to jail.
The incident took place near Patel Chowk in Chutia police station area on Monday evening. A pickup van tried to run over two police personnel, ASI Rameshwar Oraon and Constable Manoj Kumar Singh, deployed in PCR-21. When officers stopped the vehicle, the driver and another occupant called 8-10 accomplices, who attacked the policemen and attempted to snatch their weapons.
This is the second such public parade in 10 days, reinforcing the police’s zero-tolerance policy against crime.
