The Dumka district administration, under scanner for a serious security lapse giving a free run to Maoists to ambush a polling party, on Saturday lodged an FIR against 30 persons along with 15-20 unidentified ones at Shikaripara police station.
The main accused who have been identified are — Praveer, Joseph, Kanchan, luttinath, Simon, Dawood, Kiran, Akash, Dipak, Akash Sudheer, Dewan, Shanti, Sonu, Timpu, Pinki, Pratibha, Shivanti etc. The list of accused persons also includes the names of 10 women rebels.
They have been booked under Section 147, 148, 149, 326, 307, 353, 302, 379, 427, 121 of the Indian Penal Code along with Section 27 of arms act and several other acts of ClA and Explosives Act.
On the other hand, Director General of Police (DGP) Rajiv Kumar holding the local administration responsible for the incident reiterated that anyone found responsible for the same will not be spared at any cost.
“Definitely there has been deviation from the strategy in Dumka which was supposed to be adopted during the voting by the polling parties and any body found responsible for the same will definitely be punished,” said the DGP.