Police arrest 6 women for looting ration shop

Jhansi: A group of women on Friday evening looted a ration shop in Linga village under Rath police station in Hamirpur district after they were denied grains by the shopkeeper. Later, the police arrested six women after a case was lodged against them.
According to reports, the ration shop owner Harcharan Ahirwar refused to give grain to some people at the subsidised rates under the Antodaya scheme as their names were not mentioned in the list.This led to heated arguments. Later, a group of about 50 people, mainly women, attacked the ration shop and looted about 41 quintal of wheat, 50 quintal of rice and two quintal of sugar. When Harcharan tried to stop the mob from doing so, he too was thrashed.The police registered an FIR against 50 persons under different sections of the IPC. Confirming the incident, SDM Hamirpur Mohd Rizwan said that six women had been arrested and a substantial quantity of the looted grain was recovered from them.
District magistrate Hamirpur Uday Veer Singh Yadav while confirming the incident said, "We have recovered the looted grain and an FIR has been lodged against the accused. The police is investigating the matter further".