PATNA: Ghoghardiha police station SHO Gopal Krishna and sub-inspector (SI) Abhimanyu Sharma were arrested on Thursday night for assaulting ADJ-1 Avinash Kumar inside his chamber in Jhanjharpur sub-divisional court in Madhubani district earlier in the afternoon. However, the two were admitted to Darbhanga Medical College and Hospital (DMCH) for treatment as they had been thrashed by the lawyers and court staff after the physical assault on the ADJ.
Sources said the police tried to submit a petition before the Jhanjharpur court on Friday that both the accused SIs could not be produced before it after arrest as they were undergoing treatment. Sources, however, said the court accepted the copy of the FIR against the accused SIs but refused to accept the petition for inability to produce them.
The ADJ had lodged an FIR against the duo with Jhanjharpur police station after the incident.
Meanwhile, both the SIs recorded their statements before police in the Darbhanga hospital on Friday and alleged that the judicial officer and a few others inside his chamber abused, humiliated and even thrashed them first. All senior police officers avoided to say anything on the issue. They were not even clarifying officially that whether the two police officers had been arrested or not.
TOI tried for an official statement of ADG (headquarters) Jitendra Singh Gangwar on the issue, but he disconnected the call. Darbhanga range IG Ajitabh Kumar, who was in Madhubani on the second consecutive day, only said police were following all legal procedures on the basis of FIR registered by the judicial officer.
“Both SIs are undergoing treatment at DMCH for their injuries received from thrashing. The DM and SP will send a report on the Thursday incident to senior authorities soon,” the IG added.
A senior police officer from Madhubani said both the SIs could not be produced before court on Friday as they were taken to hospital after falling seriously ill late Thursday night.
Meanwhile, Bihar Judicial Services Association secretary Ajit Kumar Singh strongly condemned the incident. “I have nothing much to say as the Patna high court has already taken suo motu cognizance of the incident. I believe the matter would be taken to its logical conclusion with redressal of all grievances,” he said.
