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Spurt in blinding incidents in Bihar

By K. Balchand

PATNA Oct. 14. There has been a marked spurt in incidents of blinding of alleged criminals in Bihar in recent days. The barbarity has spread to neighbouring Jharkhand, where a policeman himself committed this gory act.

A policeman in Ranchi, capital of Jharkhand, smashed the eyes of a truck driver, Birendra Yadav, with his baton for allegedly refusing to pay a bribe of Rs. 500 at Kanti Toli Chowk under the Lower Bazaar police station on Sunday night. In the FIR, it was alleged that the incident occurred in the presence of the `daroga' of the police station.

The same night in Bihar, the eyes of two robbers, who happened to be brothers, were damaged while a young man was blinded for allegedly molesting a girl.

The brothers, Adhik Yadav and Dayanand Yadav, were overpowered by the passengers of the two buses they had held up at Mehuns village in Sheikhpura district for looting. After beating them up, the passengers and the villagers pierced their eyes with sharp weapons. An FIR has been lodged against unknown persons. Adhik Yadav is an absconder who escaped from police custody despite being handcuffed.

The other incident was reported from Sitamarhi district. Acid was injected into the eyes of Md. Mustafa in village Majhaulia under Bathnaha police station for allegedly trying to molest Chunchun Kumari.Two FIRs have been filed in this connection. The girl, in her statement, accused Mustafa of molesting her, while the village chowkidar had filed a complaint charging the girl's father, Ramadhar Das, a ward councillor, and other villagers with damaging the victim's eyes.

The recent trend started in Bhagalpur and Banka districts where two youths were blinded for theft last month. Two decades ago policemen of Bhagalpur had punctured the eyes of criminals by injecting acid in an alleged bid to contain crime.

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