Villagers hold Jadia SHO ‘hostage’

SUPAUL: Angry villagers held the Jadia SHO and about 30 workers of a road construction company hostage at Baghaili village under the Jadia police station in Supaul district following the death of a boy in road mishap on Saturday.
The SHO and the workers were rescued when a police force from the adjoining police stations reached the spot and bargained peace with the angry protestors, police said.
Piqued at the manner in which the body of a 12-year-old boy was abandoned alongside a road after he was crushed to death by a vehicle belonging to a road construction company, the villagers vent their anger. They raised slogans against the police and the road construction agency, police said.
The 12-year-old Osama, son of a local resident, Mohammad Saifuddin, was allegedly crushed to death by a vehicle belonging to a road construction agency on Friday night. Instead of either going to the police or informing the villagers, they rather tried to get rid of it by throwing the boy’s body on the road, police said.
The boy’s father, Mohammad Saifuddin, aghast at his missing son, ran helter skelter for the whole night. However, some passers-by came across the body of the boy near the village late Saturday night, the SDPO said.
Flabbergasted at this, the villagers jammed the road and created a huge ruckus. Jadia SHO Aarti Jaiswal promptly rushed to the spot and tried to engage them in a dialogue. She had, in the process, a wordy spat with the angry protestors during which she allegedly used some harsh and intemperate words against them. It only added fuel to the fire, a senior police officer said.