The villagers of Haripur blocked the road demanding stopping of sand lifting from the nearby Bhargabi river after a 14-year-old boy, Jagan Patra, of the village drowned in the river on Thursday.
later, Bhagabatipur Revenue Inspector (RI) Ashutosh Sahoo on Friday lodged an FIR at the Balanga police station alleging that four persons of Haripur village manhandled him on Thursday.
According to the RI, he was convincing Haripur villagers to withdraw the road blockade from the Pipili-Konark State Highway blockade when four of the villagers lifted him away to the roadside and beat up him. Police present there rescued him from the agitators.
later in the day, the Balanga police seized the sand lifting machine from the Haripur balighat.