New Delhi: A shocking and sensational incident has come to light from the cantonment area of Mhow, about 24 km from Indore. Here two trainee army officers (Captain) were held hostage, beaten up, cash and valuables were looted and the girls accompanying them were gang-raped. On the complaint of the victim trainee army officers, the police have detained two accused and are interrogating them.
What is the whole matter?
Giving information about the incident, Indore's IG (rural) Anurag said that two army officers (captains), residents of Uttar Pradesh, are undergoing training at Mhow Army College.
On Tuesday night, both of them went to Jam Gate in a cab along with two female friends. Here they parked the car in the firing range and started talking to each other. Suddenly eight miscreants surrounded them with pistols, knives and sticks.
The miscreants beat up the army officers (Captain) and the women. They looted cash, purses and other valuables. Then they took one officer and one woman hostage. They told the other officer and the woman to go and get the money. They will not be released until they bring 10 lakh rupees.
When the fellow soldier was late in coming, the girl was gang-raped
According to the IG, the frightened officer reached the unit and informed the commanding officer about the incident. Then the army officers informed the police about it, then both of them were rescued from the clutches of the criminals.
When the fellow officer was late in returning, the miscreants took the girl away and gang-raped her. After such a big incident in the city, the police have been able to arrest only two accused so far.
Even before this incident, there have been many incidents with army officers undergoing training in Indore's Mhow Cantt. One incident was much discussed across the country, in which the people involved were none other than policemen. Let us tell you what that incident was...
What happened nine years ago?
This is an incident of 9th September 2015. The PCR van of Vijaynagar police station of Indore caught some youths drinking alcohol outside a mall late in the evening. The policemen took the youths to the police station. There the youths told that they were army men and the policemen beat them up badly.
In the beating by the police, one soldier's leg bone was broken and the rest were badly injured. Somehow the soldiers who escaped from the clutches of the police reached Mhow Cantt and informed their colleagues about this.
100 jawans together attacked the police station
The soldiers got very angry after seeing the condition of their fellow soldiers. Then what happened. More than 100 soldiers together attacked Vijay Nagar police station with hockey sticks and full planning. The policemen present in the police station were beaten up badly, in which 10 policemen were injured.
While leaving, the army personnel also uprooted the CCTV cameras and recorders installed in the police station so that no evidence was left. They also destroyed police vehicles, wireless sets, computers and printers. The police had alleged that the personnel had also taken away a rifle and five cartridges.
The entire incident was completed in 13 minutes
The army officers attacked the police station with such planning as if they were on a mission against the enemies. The entire incident was carried out in just 13 minutes. They came divided into three groups.
First of all, they blocked the two roads leading to the police station so that no force from any other police station could come. The group that attacked the police station had covered their faces with black cloth. The rest of the group's soldiers kept searching for and beating up policemen around the road.
The soldiers came in six trucks
Eyewitnesses had told that the soldiers chased and beat all the policemen they found near Vijay Nagar police station. The soldiers saved their lives by running away from there. The soldiers took a soldier to Rasoma crossing while beating him. The footage of the red light violence detection cameras showed that the soldiers had come not on bikes or cars but in six trucks.
Three cases were registered against the jawans under various sections by the police department. On the orders of the High Court, the investigation of the case of assault and vandalism between the police and the army jawans was handed over to the CBI. A case was registered against the police officers who assaulted the army jawans. However, later the police could not produce any jawan.
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