FIGHT TO DEATH
INDIAN DACOJTS AND TROOPS relentless war on terrorism CALCUTTA, July 10. It is only occasionally that the authorities allow us a glimpse of the extensive field wherein the forces of law and order wage their continuous war on dutlaw, <3 and daeoits. Recently the Gazette of India provided a genuine “thriller” in an account of the services for which four officers were awarded the King’s Police Medal. One passage described vividly how oite mortally wounded constable clung desperately to his rifle in a tug-of-war with outlaws. From Gwalior State has now come an official account of a desperate affray between State troops and a gang of daeoiis at nav in a fortified building. In the end the troops accounted for six of. the gang in killed and wounded, hut unfortunately their leader, an audacious scoundrel named (Bhopat Rirg.h, slipped through the cordon into the darkness and shelter of high crops.
The record oi Bhopat and his associates is a sordid romance of a decade of ruthless repression and terrorism hv a zemindar bandit and his wildly devoted followers. This is now at an end and peace of mind has been restored to dwellers in a large tract of Gwalior. But Bhopat Singh is a fugitive from justice and a potential danger still.
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Hokitika Guardian, 15 July 1935, Page 2
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