The situation is limping back to normalcy at Mango and Dhatkidih where violence took place on Saturday during protest against lynching of four persons in Rajnagar in Seraikela-Kharsawan district. Adequate police force were deployed in these two localities on Sunday.
Security was beefed up in Jugsalai as well as Bagbera close to the house of two lynching victims, Vikas Verma and Gautam, and also in adjoining Bagbera as their bodies are to be brought from the MGM Medical College mortuary after the autopsy this afternoon. The body of third lynching victim, Gangesh Kumar Gupta had been cremated on Saturday afternoon after a post-mortem.
IG (Operations) Ashish Batra is camping at the steel city and keeping a vigil on the situation closely. He also held a meeting with his subordinates, including deputy inspector general (Kolhan) Prabhat Kumar and senior SP, Anoop T Mathew and others police officers this morning to take stock of situation .
"The situation is under control. We have arrested few persons responsible for lynching of four persons at Rajnagar in Seraikela-Kharsawan on Friday and also have identified several culprits involved in the lynching of three persons at Nagadih in Bagbera thana area the same night. The people should co-operate us in the identifying those involved in this crime also in dispelling the rumour of child abduction," said Batra while talking to newsmen.
According to information, at Mango , quick response team (QRT) and Jharkhand Armed Police (JAP) are still deployed and at Jugsalai as well as Bagbera Rapid Action Force (RAF) jawans have been deployed in sizable number. Stone-pelting incidents took place on Saturday morning when a members of Muslim Ekta Manch created uproar while enforcing a bandh to protect the Rajnagar lynching incident.
At Jugsalai and Bagbera also RAF jawans have been deployed in sizable numbers in view of the tense situation prevailing there. On Saturday, about 200 residents of Bagbera and Jugsalai had prevented the daily labourers from the localities like Nagadih, Parsudih, Ghaghidih and Sundarnagar to pass through the locality for attending their duty at Tata Steel Works.
Moreover, the RAF has been deployed in Jugsalai as the administration wants to ensure that no untoward incident may take place when the bodies of Vikas Verma and his brother Gautam are arrived at their house on Ramtekri Road in Jugsalai and are taken for the cremation.