Lucknow, Sep 10: In a shocking development, hundreds of activists of Bharatiya Janata Party attacked a police station in Uttar Pradesh’s Basti town, about 200 kilometres from here, thrashed the constables and forcibly got two of miscreants released from there.
Many police personnel, including the sub-inspectors, fled from the police station when the saffron party worker thrashed the constables on Saturday, according to the sources.
Five sub-inspectors were suspended for abandoning their post. Some more police personnel were likely to be acted against, sources said.
Police officials said that a leader of the Akhil Bhartiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP), the students' wing of BJP, Kabir Tiwari and two others had been detained by the police on charges of assaulting the principal of a degree college and holding him hostage for several hours on Saturday.
Kabir, who was the president of the college student's union, had failed in the examination but wanted to be promoted to the next class, sources said.
Hundreds of saffron party workers stormed the Kotwali police station on getting the news of Tiwari's detention. The BJP workers ransacked the police station and got Tiwari and another leader forcibly released. Terrified police personnel fled from the post instead of confronting the trouble makers.
A case was registered against Tiwari and unidentified BJP workers.
Earlier also there have been instances, when BJP workers and leaders, including party MLAs, storming police stations and assaulting police officials in several parts of the state.
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