Statesman News Service
MALDA, March 9: Hundreds of villagers, residents of Sadipur between English Bazaar and Kaliachak police station, blocked a state highway for over 14 hours today in protest against alleged police highhandedness.Police arrested three persons last night from that village in connection with a lynching case. Villagers claimed that three persons were innocent.Villagers alleged that police damaged their houses and tortured women members of their family in the name of raid.It may be noted that two youths were killed a few days ago there. Villagers suspected them to be criminals and hacked them to death.After the incident, Malda SP Mr Satyajit Bandyopadhyay said: “Police would not spare any one for taking law in their hands”.But police could not conduct a raid just after the incident in Sadipur and adjoining villages due to on going Madhyamik and Madrassa examinations.The police later raided the villages but failed to identify any one who killed the two youths brutally.Villagers dragged the two youths from their area, tied them with trees, killed them at night and lastly dumped their bodies on the other of the village.Though police asked the villagers to confess the crime and surrender them, no one agreed to come forward.Last night police picked up three persons from that village when villagers refused to confess and disclose the names of those who killed the two men. Malda SP Mr Satyajit Bandyopadhyay said: “Raid would be continued to nab others involved in this case. Action would be taken if police personnel were found guilty as per the allegations by the villagers.Villagers finally lifted the road block around 2 pm today which began at 6 am.
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