Bhubaneswar

BJP leaders booked for road blockade over Dushmanta death

KAHNU NANDA

The Kujanga police have lodged an FIR against BJP leaders and few others those had been hoisted a road blockade at Manitripatana near Pankapala on Cuttack-Paradeep State Highway on Thursday demanding compensation and justice for the Dushmanta Das, a youth who died during treatment in SCB Medical College Hospital in Cuttack after he attempted to commit suicide near Odisha Assembly. The alleged police complaint has been lodged by one Rajani Kanta Das, a sub-inspector Kujanga police station, alleging that the BJP leaders and few villagers had unlawfully converged blockade  Cuttack-Paradeep road at Manitripatana created inconvenience over traffic movements on road about four hours, when law enforcing officials magistrate accompanying police force reached spot irate saffron leaders and their supporters scolded them using filthy language and threatened with criminal intimidation, FIR revealed. Moreover, the agitators and BJP leaders have violated Covid 19 protocols undergoing force in state and were blatantly dishonored guidelines meant for Coronavirus spreading prevention measures during road blocked agitation.