Tension prevailed near the Papermetla police station in Malkangiri district as locals attacked cops, leaving two of them injured, on Monday.
The situation arose out of the recent death of one Raju Hantal of Ranganiguda village under Dhuliput panchayat. Family members of the deceased have been alleging that he was abducted and murdered by BSF jawans.
After postmortem, Raju’s family refused to accept his body on Monday. They alon g with locals staged a dharna in front of the police station placing the body on ground. They demanded immediate arrest of the accused.
The situation turned violent in the afternoon as the locals attacked policemen. They also ransacked a police vehicle.
Notably, Raju was found dead in the kitchen of an Anganwadi Centre at Jantabai village in the Chitrakonda area on Sunday. As per his family members, he had on September 13 gone to the weekly market at Jantabai with his two daughters. Some BSF personnel met him at the market and took him along with them, following which he didn’t return home, they alleged.