Bihar cop says Katihar deaths ‘planned conspiracy’, 'unidentified person opened fire' | WATCH

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Bihar's Katihar district following stone-pelting by protesters who were demanding better power supply on 26 July, Wednesday. According to the police headquarters in Patna, "more than a dozen police personnel and power department employees" sustained injuries in the incident that took place barely "100 meters away from Barsoi police station". "Nearly 1,000 local residents were staging a demonstration in front of the power department office.

Some anti-social elements had found their way into the crowd and they started hurling stones. When a police party tried to quell the disruptors, they too were attacked with bricks, stones and sticks," said the PHQ, which also shared photos of injured policemen. "Today, we came here (incident spot) for an inquiry.

Whatever we do will be fact-based. We checked the CCTV camera...We first went where the body was recovered and found that it is impossible for the bullet fired by the police to have hit the deceased given the distance. It is visible in the CCTV that a youth comes and opens fire at the two deceased..." Kumar told reporters on Friday.

District Magistrate Ravi Prakash and Superintendent of Police Jitendra Kumar made the claim while sharing with the press a CCTV footage of the incident that took place on Wednesday. "It is a planned conspiracy. We had been smelling a rat since the police had fired its shots from a place too far to have hit any of the protesters," claimed the SP.