KUMUD JENAMANI
Jamshedpur, April 4: Police have on Tuesday started conducting raids at the houses of those who were indulged in stone-pelting at a Ramnavami jhanda procession at Jugsalai in the night of March 31.
The police have registered a case on the basis of a named FIR lodged against 10 persons and 500 others after identifying the desperadoes from the CCTV footage of the violence scene.
Though a police team has swooping over the houses of the accused persons, the latters have made themselves underground to evade the arrest.
It may be mentioned here that the trouble started when a mob of people had resorted to stone-pelting late on March 31 night when a Ramnavami procession was passing through Jugsalai Gwala Bustee.
As a result of stone-pelting on a peaceful procession, a police party had tried to drive away the desperadoes, but the latter had not spared even the cops.
Consequently, five persons, including policemen were injured in the stone-pelting and the procession had also stopped. Later the processionists had squatted on the railway tracks that pass through the area and had damaged railings on the newly set up railway overbridge.
As the situation was worsening fast in the area, City SP, K Vijay Shankar had himself rushed to the spot and prevented it from going out of control by deploying an adequate number of armed police at the disturbed area.
The next morning deputy commissioner, Vijaya Jadhav herself visited the disturbed area in Jugsalai for taking stock of the situation there. The police have started raiding the houses of the trouble-creators in Jugsalai today after the situation has returned to normalcy.
