Published: Dec 26, 2013, 10:55 PM (IST)
Edited: Dec 27, 2013, 06:18 PM (IST)
Jammu police raided Hotel Savoy where the place where the players were staying a day before their Ranji Trophy match.
Team all-rounder Samiullah Beigh narrated the incident on his Facebook page.
In a PTI report, “Cudnt sleep whole night….police came to search our hotel at midnight and questioned us for hours at 1:15am in the night (sic),” Beigh wrote.
“We dnt lock our doors as only our Ranji trophy team stays in that hotel. we r still feeling d shock n horror of finding uniformed people with guns surrounding us when v wre fast asleep (sic),” his comment read further.
Rajesh Kumar, the Inspector General of Jammu Police, said acting on a tip off, they searched all Jammu hotels and the Ranji team was not targetted “specifically”.
“We searched most of the hotels in Jammu… a routine check-up. We did not have the prior information that the Ranji team is staying in the hotel. Police was not aware of the fact that they are the members of the Ranji team. So it is possible they must have been questioned,” Kumar said.
A furiuos Beigh said even if it was a routine check up, the treatment meted out to them was not appropriate.
“Whether deliberate harassment or routine check up, surely this isn’t d way to treat bunch of guys with national and international repute, especially when u r playing the most important match of the jk cricket history (sic),” he wrote.
