Delhi CP visits ACP injured in riots; Read this tale of heroism in face of a violent mob

Commissioner of Delhi SN Srivastava has visited Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP), Gokul Puri, Anuj Kumar who was severely injured in Delhi violence on February 24. Anuj Kumar got injured during violent clashes while rescuing Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) Amit Sharma who got unconscious in clashes while blood oozing out of his mouth.

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Encounter with heavily outnumbered violent mob

Earlier, while speaking with Republic Media Network, injured ACP had revealed horrific turn of events when he and his team was confronted with a heavily outnumbered violent mob as y somehow mand to escape with unconscious DCP to save ir lives.

"We were trying to hold talks with m peacefully and asked m to stay confined to service road instead of main road but re was a rumour that some women and children got injured in police firing which acted as a catalyst and crowd got berserk. We were at a disadvantous position," said injured ACP who is w recovering.

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ACP said that y were merely 250 police personnel as against a violent mob of close to 20,000 to 25,000 people. "We had two companies accompanied by some local staff so we were approximately 250 personnel whereas crowd was close to 25,000 to 30,000. We were steadily trying to persuade ladies and crowd but somebody started stone pelting and situation got spiralled. As distance between us and mob was very less, tear gas was also t effective and divider behind us was acted as a wall which created mayhem like situation," he added while recalling horrific turn of event.

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Anuj Kumar also told Republic how he and his men saved injured DCP, but failed to save slain head constable Ratan Lal. "I was concerned about sir (DCP), he was unconscious and blood was oozing from his mouth. Ratan (slain head constable) was already injured and my staff had taken him backside but sir was lying alone, so I along with two ors took sir ran ar side towards Yamuna Vihar and took him to nursing home but Ratan and sir's condition was critical. So we asked for help of a private car. We took m to GTB hospital. doctors tried hard to resuscitate Ratan but y were t successful."

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