Balrampur: A very bad situation arose in Ramanujganj, Chhattisgarh, when a BJP councillor and a Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha (BJYM) vice-president were caught looting and threatening an excise sub-inspector who acted in an operation against an illegal liquor house. The case was noticed when a formal complaint was made by Excise Sub-Inspector Neeraj Sahu, who submitted a complaint at the local police station and wanted stern action against the accused.
In the complaint, it is also stated that on June 16 at about 2 PM, Neeraj Sahu and his team raided the home of Ramesh Paswan, son of Shivpoojan Paswan, in Ward 15, Ramanujganj. The team during the raid found 7 litres of illegal Mahua liquor, 240 kilos of Mahua Lahan (fermented material to make a country liquor) and destroyed 15 potato-size pits. After the arrest, the accused was handed over to Ramanujganj Hospital, where he was to undergo a medical check-up, after which he was sent to court.
When the accused was in custody, Sub-Inspector Sahu received a phone call from someone who claimed to be Siddharth Yadav, BJP councillor of Ward 15. The officer was alleged to have been pressured by Yadav to give Ramesh Paswan free. At the time when Sahu told him that the case was non-bailable and a certain procedure had to be followed, Yadav is said to have issued stern warnings to him of terrible effects.
Almost immediately after, three persons, who were all known as Ashwin Gupta, Siddharth Yadav and one unknown person, moved to the hospital. They are reported to have started shouting, throwing abuses and threatening to kill the officer. They even tried to break the lock up and release the accused by force.
It was said that the whole episode was captured on video. In his complaint, the sub-inspector had pointed out that the group obstructed a government officer on duty, attacked him and also tried to release a legally detained person. Strict legal action has been called upon by the Excise Department to rectify the culprits who participated in this uncultured and criminal activity.
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