At least 19 persons have been detained in connection with the torching of two police vehicles during a group clash at Bharatpur village in Jajpur district on Saturday night. A police team raided the village under the Balichandrapur police station late in the night and picked up 13 villagers for their alleged involvement in the arson.
According to sources, a clash broke between two groups of people at village. When the policemen reached the village and intervened to stop the clash, the irate villagers pelted stones, in which two policemen were injured.
The mob also set two police vans on fire. Though fire fighters reached the spot, the police vehicles were reduced to ashes in the flame. Tension prevailed in the village after the incident. Section 144 of CrPC was imposed in the village and one platoon of police force have been deployed at the village to prevent any further untoward incident, said Balichandrapur PS IIC Sukant Patra.
Later, DIG Jai Narayan Panka, Jajpur SP Rahul PRj and SDPO t Chinmay Nayak and other senior police officials also went to the village and took stock of the situation. .