Home Guard Jawan's Death Causes Outrage

Patna: Aug. 9, 2008

Following the recovery of the dead body of a Home Guard jawan at the police barrack located within the Buddha Colony Police Station in Patna on Saturday, the victim's family members and other Home Guard jawans staged a march to the Kargil Chowk insisting the jawan's death was the result of a foul play.

As reported, 50-year old Om Prakash Singh's lifeless body was discovered by his room-mate Nathun Yadav when he returned to his room at 4:00 am after pulling an all-nighter patrolling the streets of Patna.

Yadav said a police rifle was clamped between his legs and had bullet wounds on his chest piercing his heart and coming out of his back.

While officials are not ruling out suicide or accidental death, family members of Singh and other Home Guard jawans insisted on foul play while demanding a CBI probe into the case.

Angry well-wishers marching with the body of the victim, arrived at the Kargil Chowk where the scene soon turned into a riot-like situation forcing the administration to bring in anti-riot vehicle and other paraphernalia to keep the situation under control.

Town DSP Sanjay Singh and Gandhi Maidan police station in-charge Nissar Ahmed rushed to the troubled site and tried to negotiate with the protestors.

Following the assurance of Rs. 10,000 in compensation money, the protestors took the body to the Bans Ghat where Singh was cremated in the presence of Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) MP Ram Kripal Yadav.