Amarpur Birganj police station in Tripura turned into a battlefield on Tuesday. Police had to resort to tear gas firing and mild lathi-charge to disperse the agitated people.
The agitated crowd was demanding handing over the two arrested persons accused in a twin murder case, to them.
The area around Birganj police station was tense. The situation gradually calmed down later.
A woman named Pushparani Jamatia and her 14-year-old daughter Jashoda Rani Jamatia, residents of Tingharia in Amrpur under Gomati District of Tripura, left home to visit a puja in Amarpur town on October 23.
But the mother and daughter due stayed away from the house for the whole night. The next day, when the mother and daughter did not return home even after noon, the girl’s father filed a missing diary at the Ampinagar police station in the district.
Meanwhile, on November 2, two bodies wrapped in bags were found floating in the Dambur reservoir under Raisyabari police station in Dhalai district of Tripura.
Later, Raisyabari police station registered a case and started an investigation.
Soon Police identified the two bodies wrapped in bags and came to know that those were of Pushprani Jamatia and Jashoda Rani Jamatia, who had gone missing from Tingarhia.
Later, the Raisyabari police station, in the course of investigation, learned that the murder was organized by one Shankar Jamatia alias Bijay (34), a resident of Burburiya in Amarpur. Meanwhile, the accused Shankar Jamatia was on the run to escape from the police. However, on Monday night, the police arrested the accused Shankar Jamatia and his wife Chitrakona Jamatia from a border area and brought them to Amarpur Birganj police station.
As soon as the news of the arrest of the accused reached Tingarhia village, the villagers gathered and came to Amarpur Birganj police station on Tuesday afternoon. The angry villagers were demanding the police to produce the accused Bijay Jamatia and his wife Chitrakona Jamatia in front of the villagers.
But when the police refused to meet their demand, the agitated villagers entered the Birganj police station and the situation in the police station soon became tense. To bring the situation under control, the police fired tear gas. But even then the situation did not calm down, and later the agitated people were dispersed by mild lathi-charge.
Meanwhile, a few people were slightly injured when they were running away after the lathi-charge. Later in the afternoon, when the situation was completely calm, the police left for Raisyabari police station with the accused Shankar alias Bijay Jamatia and his wife Chitrakona Jamatia under heavy security of TSR and CRPF jawans.