Violent demonstrations and stone-pelting rocked Nalanda in Bihar on Monday as relatives and supporters of the slain DPS school director came out on to the roads shouting anti-police slogans.
Violent demonstrations and stone-pelting rocked Nalanda in Bihar on Monday as relatives and supporters of the slain DPS school director came out on to the roads shouting anti-police slogans. “The brutal killing of the DPS school director in full public view on Sunday is a complete failure of the state police, which has a responsibility to wipe out jungle raj in Bihar,” a supporter said after the reports of the post-mortem examinations of the two school students whose bodies were fished out of a pond located near DPS School in Nalanda revealed they had died due to drowning. They said, “This post-mortem report in a way gives a clean chit to the director, who became a victim of a few villagers in Nalanda. The most shocking is that this has happened in the home district of the chief minister.”
Angry protesters disrupted road and rail traffic, demanding a CBI inquiry and action against the police. The director’s daughter alleged the incident occurred in the presence of the police and it could have been averted had it intervened. “My father, after he received a call, took the police along with him, and they, instead of controlling the mob, watched them beat my father to death. The police is a partner in this heinous murder. I demand a CBI inquiry into the incident, Chief minister Nitish Kumar must act,” the slain DPS school director’s daughter, Swarnlata, said Monday. Later, the officer in charge of Nalanda police station, Sunil Kumar Nirjhar, was suspended and a further investigation initiated.
Sources said the police has been asked to file an FIR on the basis of video footage available with the local media. The video footage shows a person beating up the director with a long bamboo stick, and other footage shows a few more persons kicking and punching the director.
