Brahmin Mridulananda Sarma terror against simple local peoples

GUWAHATI- July 10: The latest such case is the killing of two innocent truckers by the PSO of CID SP Mridulananda Sarma for a simple accident involving a truck (ASO1U6065) and a Scorpio (ASO1AJ6259) of the SP at Lokhra Chariali in Guwahati last night.

According to City Additional SP Debojit Deuri, when the truck hit the SP’s Scorpio that had the family of the SP also as its occupants, one of the PSOs, Gadhadhar Rai, took a motorcycle from a person nearby, chased the truck and killed its driver Krishna Chandra Tripuria and the handyman. The ASP further said the SP asked the other two PSOs to go and bring back Gadhadhar, but when they reached the spot the two truckers were shot dead. Unofficial sources, however, said the PSO chased the truck with the Scorpio itself, with the SP right inside the vehicle, and shot dead the two truckers.

Now the question is: how can a PSO be so desperate in front of his commanding officer? The duty of PSOs is to protect the person for whom they are assigned to protect, and in this accident there was no attack of any sort on the SP. The duty of the PSO and the SP was to hand over the truckers to the nearest police station. Or, is it that despite calls by various accountability commissions for police reforms, police officers and their PSOs in Assam think they are above the law of the land? Can such a police force ever exist for any people?

Two cases — one on firing (333/09) and the other on accident (332/09) — were registered in Bashistha police station against the PSO. Sources said the PSO fired as many as 30 rounds of bullets from his AK-47 rifle while chasing the truck.

Meanwhile, a large number of local people and vehicle drivers blocked the road in front of Bashistha police station today demanding action against the SP and the PSO. On the other hand, PSO Gadadhar Rai was produced before the CJM Court today. He has been sent to three-day police custody.

Meanwhile, the All Assam Motor Shramik Federation and the CITU have called a 24-hour strike all over the State from 5 am on July 13 in protest against the killing of the two truckers.