Chandigarh, May 16 – Miscreants attacked and pelted stones at policemen on the pretext of protest outside Chaudhary Devi Lal Sanjivani Hospital. A total of 20 police personnel, including 5 women, who were injured in this attack, are undergoing treatment at the civil hospital. The miscreants also attacked DSP, Sh. Abhimanyu Lohan under the Jindal over bridge. Giving this information, the police spokesperson said that the miscreants first broke the barricade installed on the canal bridge and threw it into the canal. After this, the miscreants also broke the barricade under the Jindal over bridge and entered into a physical altercation with DSP, Sh. Abhimanyu Lohan.
Thereafter, the miscreants started entering the Chaudhary Devi Lal Sanjivani Hospital complex set up at Jindal Modern School and removed the barricades planted there. At this place, the miscreants also tried to run a tractor over the policemen, in which some policemen also suffered injuries. These miscreants have also damaged five police vehicles. Surprisingly, even after the conclusion of the hospital’s inauguration programme, these people tried to enter the premises of the hospital, where the treatment of corona infected has started today. Many of them were drunk and their intention was to commit violence on a large scale.
The spokesperson said that on one hand, the state government is building hospitals as fast as possible to provide relief to the people suffering from the Corona epidemic on the other hand the miscreants are trying to sabotage and damage even such hospitals.