Udham Singh Nagar – Panic gripped the SSP office after a woman arrived carrying a bottle of petrol and threatened self-immolation, alleging harassment and police inaction in a long-running property dispute. The woman, a resident of Awas Vikas in Rudrapur, accused local police of siding with her relatives and failing to protect her legal rights.
The woman, identified as Raj Bala Jain, reached the SSP office on Saturday claiming that her brother-in-law was attempting to forcibly take over her house. Alert police and intelligence personnel quickly intervened, snatched the petrol bottle from her hand and produced her before SP City Uttam Singh Negi.
Before the SP City, Raj Bala alleged that her brother-in-law’s family lived with her for nearly 28 years before shifting to Jaynagar Dineshpur and later to Anand Vihar in the Transit Camp area. She claimed that three years ago, the family returned and began pressuring her to vacate the house. The dispute, she said, is already pending in court.
She further alleged that on Friday, after being summoned to the Awas Vikas police outpost, her brother-in-law, with the support of a local councillor and the son of the Kichha MLA, broke the lock of her house and took illegal possession with alleged police connivance. The woman demanded immediate restoration of possession and warned that failure to do so would force her to take an extreme step inside the SSP office itself.
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Senior police officers assured her of examining the complaint, following which the woman calmed down and returned home. However, the incident has raised uncomfortable questions about police neutrality in civil disputes and the growing desperation of citizens who feel unheard until they resort to drastic measures.
