Bihar policemen call off stir

PATNA, JULY 26. The three-day strike by 18,000 policemen was called off today with the State Government withdrawing the dismissal of Bihar Police Association (BPA) general secretary, Mr. K.K. Jha, and also the suspension of over 250 policemen who had joined the agitation.

Mr. Jha said the Government had assured to sympathetically consider their demands within 15 days. All members of the association, including inspectors, sub-inspectors and assistant sub-inspectors would join duty with immediate effect, he added.

The BPA had decided to go on mass casual leave for seven days from the midnight of July 23 in support of their demands, which included introduction of payscale on par with that of Delhi police, checking political interference in their functioning, compensation to families of policemen who had lost their lives in encounters.

- UNI

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