The Mahakalpada police on Monday arrested two more persons for their alleged involvement in the Gahirmatha Forest Range office attack case.With this, the total number of arrests made so far in this case has reached 13.
The arrested persons have been identified as Gopal Maity of Suniti village and Tapas Jain of Ostira village under Mahakalapada police station. later, the accused duo was produced before the SDJM Court here which forwarded them to jail custody after rejecting their bail petitions, police sources said.
Hundreds of irate villagers had on Saturday ransacked and set afire the Gahirmatha Forest Range Office at Sasanpeta after one Kiriti Bhusan Mandal (62) of Ratapanga village was killed by a wild boar.