4 Cops Suspended, 11 People Arrested In Agra Police Post Attack

Four policemen, including the SHO of Agra’s Tajgang police station and the in-charge of Tora police post, were suspended and the entire staff of the police post were attached to the district police lines on Friday, after a violence broke out in the area. 

The suspended policemen included two constables who had allegedly on Thursday chased a sand-laden tractor-trolley prompting its driver to overspeed eventually resulting in a fatal accident. 

The accident, in which the tractor driver was killed, had triggered a mob violence in which an angry crowd set fire to the police post after ransacking it and looting a few wireless sets and laptops.

The police, meanwhile also arrested 11 people involved in the violent attack on the police post in which two constables were injured, said Agra’s Senior Superintendent of Police Bablu Kumar.

He said Tajgang police station SHO, Inspector Narendra Kumar, and Tora police post in-charge, Sub-Inspector Manoj Panwar, along with constables Ajaypal and Manoj have been suspended. All the policemen posted at the police post too have been transferred to the district police lines, he added.

The police have registered two cases following the Thursday incident -- one of the accident and another for the attack on the police post by over 200 unidentified persons. An investigation has also been ordered against policemen, accused of chasing the tractor trolley and causing the accident.