Ramaswami: Patna: Usha Devi, Mukhiya (elected village body head) of Dihuri panchayat is helpless following the police action against the purportedly innocent people of Akauni village. Local administration and the police are not listening to her, she said. Despite knowing that the police have ruthlessly acted against innocent villagers including minor children, pregnant women and old men, Usha Devi says, she can not do much to help them. Four days after 44 people including 14 women of Akauni village, which falls under the jurisdiction of the Goh police station in Aurangabad district, were arrested and sent to jail, fear and terror of police action during the lockdown is such that most of the villagers have fled the Akauni village after locking their houses. The elderly have been left behind to take care of the livestock (cows and buffaloes). These people were arrested on charges of allegedly attacking and injuring the police and a medical team last week after a case of mistaken identity. Authorities attempted to screen a suspected COVID-19 patient forcibly and the police’s highhandedness attracted the ire of the villagers, who reportedly attacked them.