Excelsior Correspondent
SUNDERBANI, Jan 24: Residents of Sunderbani town including traders today came out on the road and held protest demonstration against police for its failure to solve the theft cases in the area.
The local shopkeepers and residents assembled in the main market and then took out of protest march against local police authorities. They alleged that last night thieves broke into two shops in the main market and decamped with cash and other items while several houses in the area were burgled in last one week. The police has failed to prevent the thefts and trace the burglers.
The protesters then moved to the Jammu-Rajouri-Poonch highway and blocked it for about half an hour. Later, with the intervention of Additional SP Nowshera, Parshotam Sharma, the people lifted dharna. He assured the public to solve the cases and also pull up the concerned police staff. The traffic remained disrupted for half an hour on the busy road.