A group of Aam Adhikar activists were courted arrest while they were attempting to protest the meeting of BJP national president Amit Shah here on Tuesday.
Aam Adhikar convenor Amiay Pandab, general secretary Ganesh Dash, secretary Nagen Rath and Tarini Prasad Das were among those courted arrest. The Commissionerate police detained them at a police station till the end of Shah’s meeting, informed Pandab. Pandab also informed that they later lodged a FIR in the Capital police station seeking arrest of former MlA Pratap Chandra Sarangi and many other BJP workers for allegedly violating laws. “Hundreds of BJP workers led by Sarangi took out a procession from the Rabindra Mandap to the AG Square where Section 144 is in force,” alleged Pandab.