Tension erupted at Pattamundai Basti Ward-11 once again as minority community members and Dalits on Wednesday attacked each with five persons left injured. A car was also damaged.
SDPO Umashankar Moharana said on Thursday morning, the Dalit women started an altercation with the minority community women over humiliation of their family members in jail by the minority community members who were arrested earlier in communal flare-up in the area. Soon, the community members started pelting stones and thrashing each other. Five persons injured included a minor boy and an octogenarian woman from both the sides.
Acting on the information, Pattamundai police and Tehsildar-cum-Executive Magistrate of Pattamundai Banamali Tarei rushed to the spot and managed to pacify the tension.
later, district Collector Muralidhar Mallick and SP Nitinjeet Singh rushed to Pattamundai to take stock of the situation. As tension prevailed in the area, four platoons of police were deployed.
Meanwhile, Section 144 CrPC remained in force at Pattamundai basti was strictly clamped. The police registered two cases from both the sides and were conducting an inquiry. No body had been arrested. Meanwhile, district Collector Muralidhar Mallick appealed the duo communities to maintain peace in the locality.