At least half a dozen police personnel, including a Deputy Superintendent of Police, clashed with villagers in Chhattisgarh’s Surajpur district on Friday (July 24, 2026).
The police said that they were attacked by a mob when they had gone to arrest an accused in a pending criminal case. The villagers asserted that the police team was accompanying a survey team for land acquisition for mining, a claim contested by a senior police officer. “The situation escalated after the police attacked an elderly person.” according to the village Sarpanch.
The incident occurred in the morning in the Dharampur-Madannagar villages within the jurisdiction of Pratappur police station where the police team had gone to arrest some accused,
Surajpur Additional Superintendent of Police Yogesh Dewangan told reporters without adding the context or details of the case.
“We had anticipated that there could be resistance to the arrests and had reached the spot fully prepared. However, we did not expect the opposition to turn so violent. The villagers resisted the operation aggressively, leaving more than six police personnel injured,” he said.
