lake police sent a strong force to break up the clash former cops feel that the respect and fear of the law are slipping in the city in garden reach a truck driver allegedly deliberately ran over a traffic sergeant by the party he meant trinamool congress we were trying to disperse the two factions many believe that cops toeing a political line and keeping quiet even after repeated attacks adds to the commoners belief that they can get away with challenging lawkeepers a retired commissioner of police who did not wish to be named said when a top politician openly advocates attacking police with bombs and a former tollywood star talks of sending boys to rape women this is what you will get strangely no one has been arrested yet our cops were chasing them through the slums when around 100 locals attacked them said the officer when isolated incidents begin happening far too often there is bound to be an apprehension that respect for law is going down however last sunday both clubs clashed again during immersion said a police officer cops are leveling such allegations to bolster their petty case the backtoback attacks on cops come a week after a traffic sergeant was hit by a car in north kolkata when he tried to stop the driver for a traffic offence slum dwellers however deny that police were attacked cops were beaten up at pathakpara near behala and shyampukur for trying to stop the bursting of illegal firecrackers an additional oc was hit by an auto in new alipore and a civic police volunteer beaten up while checking illegal autos later lake police acted swiftly and broke up the fight said an officer this year there have been no less than 23 attacks in various forms against kolkata and bidhannagar policemen whats shocking 72 hours have passed but no one has been arrested apparently because police are busy with chhath puja arrangements the policemen attacked on wednesday were trying to stop a fight between two rival clubs mobs have attacked cops in entally and taratala after wild rumours after the murder of si tapas choudhury at garden reach last year a home guard was shot dead by an inebriated man in haridevpur in june this year it is important that each incident is probed to see if there is a common thread said s ramakrishnan former adgcid we have informed the party about the reality said govinda chanda a member of nabin sangha we will arrest the accused in due time assured dcsoutheast gaurav sharma according to police members of aarti sangha and nabin sangha clubs in govindapur slum clashed on kali puja night after a stray rocket hit one of the idols this year has been particularly bad for the city force but trinamool leaders refused to comment saying it was a local incident and did not involve any political party kolkata lalbazar hq might prefer to call repeated attacks on cops routine but police in