KOLKATA: Residents of a neighbourhood in New Town allegedly assaulted and chased some cops away when they tried to stop them from playing loudspeakers in the wee hours of Thursday. According to sources, the policemen visited the area after some locals complained the noise was disturbing their children studying for their Madhyamik exams.The cops arrived at Patharghata to switch off loudspeakers around 1.30am on Thursday. Locals there claimed the cops had assaulted one person while asking them to switch off the loudspeakers, which in turn angered a section of residents.The group had then allegedly assaulted and chased the cops away, and blocked roads leading into the area by burning tyres and demonstrating on the road. Mayor Saysasachi Dutta had to rush to the spot to bring the situation under control. Though a case has been registered, no one has been arrested so far."Around 1.10am, duty officer SI Jayanta Majumder took a team to Patharghata after being alerted by the control room. They found a sound box and microphones being used at a religious programme near Patharghata High School. We requested the people attending the programme to stop the loudspeakers. We didn't ask them to stop the event. But some of them accused the cops of forcefully stopping a religious programme. They blocked the roads to Patharghata to protest . Later, when five personnel from New Town traffic guard went to Patharghata on duty, some of the agitators assaulted them and damaged our property," said an officer.The cops were treated at Ohio Hospital and Apollo Gleneagles Hospitals and released by evening.

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