Berhampur/Kodala: Following the group-clash, the police imposed curfew in night time from evening 8 pm to morning 6 am. During the curfew hour, Kodala police arrested 43 persons on Thursday morning. Opposing the police action, thousands of villagers from nearby villages blockade the main road to release the arrested villagers.
The communication hit due to the Aska-Bhubaneswar road blockade. Thousands of villagers including hundreds of armed women were in the strike. The villagers of Chachina, Khajapalli, Budha Amba, Deogaon are joined in road blockade in different places.
Additional DG Sanjeev Marik has enquired into the matter and discussed at length to control the situation. The villagers are demanding for the release of arrested villagers, but police is not in the favour of the demand. Police cleared that they may release some persons out of total 43. The raged people did not accept the decision of the police and continued road blockade and agitation against the police order.
This situation is become worsening over due to the uniting of local people after the group-clash. As yesterday, 50 nearby villagers attacked on the Marathi Street in Kodala. Two persons namely P. Kali and Rama Pradhan were killed in the hand of raged villagers during the group-clash. The armed villagers torched the houses by using petrol bomb and country made bombs. Though 10 platoon police force were there to control the mob, but failed to control the mob.
The group clash was a result of personal anger between a group of people from Marathi street and Chachina village. These two people started quarrel taking in account of a discussion in a fast food-cum-tiffin center on May 27. The small quarrel and tackling for revenge transformed into a group class, sources said.
Chief Minister directed a high level administrative enquiry into the matter. Twopolice officer include Kodala IIC Paramananda Sahu and Chatrapur SDPO P.K. Jali were suspended from their job. Government declared compensation Rs 2 lakh for the families of the deceased,Rs 50,000 for home less and 20,000 for the families those are partial affected in the group-clash.
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