Clashes broke out on Sunday between police and local residents of the Nepali Nagar area of Rajeev Nagar in Patna over an anti-encroachment drive, in which several policemen, including City Superintendent of Police (Central), Patna, were injured and over a dozen people arrested.
The clashes ensued when police reached Nepali Nagar, under the Rajeev Nagar police station, on Sunday morning with over 14 bulldozers to demolish nearly 90 illegal concrete houses allegedly constructed on government lands. The protesting local said, “If their structures were illegal, how could the government have provided electricity connection and collected municipal taxes from them regularly?” “Even concrete roads were laid in the area by the government,” they protested, while throwing stones at the police men.
The City Superintendent of Police (Patna Central) Ambrish Rahul was injured in the attack and seen with a bruised face. However, he told media persons that he got injured due to his own fault. Later, Patna Senior Superintendent of Police M.S. Dhillon and District Magistrate Chandrashekhar Singh reached the spot with heavy reinforcement of police personnel.
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