Watch: Bihar cops thrash commandant after ailing lady constable dies

The commandant had reportedly refused to grant leave to the lady constable.

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Patna: Responsible for maintaining law and order, cops in Bihar took law in their own hands and shred it to pieces when they thrashed a commandant for reportedly not granting leaving to an ailing lady constable. The woman later passed away.

Police personnel, enraged after the death of their colleague, decided to surround the commandant in big numbers and unleashed a barrage of assaults on him. Some of them were even seen thrashing him with batons and other sharp objects even as the commandant struggles to escape from the scene with a bloodied head.

Patna: Police personnel protest and create ruckus allegedly after an ailing woman constable passed away due to lack of treatment.Protesters claim the commandant did not grant her an adequate leave period to get treated.The commandant was injured after being thrashed by protesters pic.twitter.com/GtJbgN1owL — ANI (@ANI) November 2, 2018

The violent form of protest from the cops is likely to cause massive embarrassment to the Bihar Police which has a rather tarnished and much-maligned image even otherwise.

Little wonder then that officials have called for calm and have assured that the matter would be investigated.