Cuttack: Alarmed by over 30 houses looted in the last 10 nights, the villagers of Siaria and Biswanthapur under Narasighpur block here, have decided to take care of their own security instead of relying on the police. Every night, the men patrol their villages under Kanpur police limits till the early hours of the morning. Dacoity and burglary cases have become a regular affair in the villages in the absence of police patrolling here.
Villagers alleged that although they had lodged police complaints, no action was taken. Instead of investigating and detecting the cases, the local police remained silent by registering the cases only, reported The New Indian Express (TNIE).
A group of 50 to 60 youths have been guarding their village every night from 11 pm to 5 am in shifts by holding sticks and torch light for the last three days. As a result, not a single loot or burglary case has been reported from the villages in the last three days, they said.
However, Athagarh SDPO Debendra Kumar Mallick, was quoted as saying, “We are conducting investigations and efforts are on to detect all the cases reported from the villages within a week. The residents might have been guarding their villages for own security but it is not a police sponsored programme.”