Mob accused him of not taking action

“Main musalman hun, yehi mera gunah hai? (Is being Muslim my sin?)”, says a Jharkhand police officer repeatedly in a video which has gone viral on social media. The police officer from the minority community was accused by a mob of not taking action after the murder of a local BJP leader in Doranda of Ranchi district on June 18 .

Local BJP workers and leaders gathered at the Doranda police station in Ranchi after Dhiraj Ram, 39, was shot dead in the early hours last Wednesday.

They charged that station in-charge Abid Khan had ‘deliberately’ not taken action in the case. The police officer, who has a good reputation among the common people, was upset. In the video Mr. Khan is seen expressing his anguish, while standing among the crowd.

“It was an off-the-cuff reaction as someone among the crowd had made some unwarranted personal remark against me… the murder had happened early in the morning and they came to the police station with the body and started accusing me of not taking any action”, Mr. Khan told The Hindu over phone.

“My senior was sitting inside the police station and those in the mob were not willing to listen… though an FIR was lodged against unknown persons. It takes time to take action in such cases,” he explained.

Meanwhile, the police arrested four persons, Md Ali Khan, Md Arif, Md Salman Ansari and Md Chand Ansari, all residents of Doranda, in the case on Saturday. They were remanded in judicial custody on Sunday.

Dhiraj Ram was killed near his Beldar colony home.