Six police personnel were injured in an attack by a mob on Friday when they went to a village in Jharkhand`s Hazaribag district to help a BSF jawan take possession of land allotted to him by the government, officials said, according `to PTI report.

Prakash Sharma, the jawan, was provided 10 decimal (4,355 sq.ft) land in Romi village in Padma police station area as per the government`s rehabilitation policy, Deputy Commissioner (DC) Nancy Sahay told PTI. "But, whenever Sharma tried to take possession of the land, the locals resisted," she said.