Police held a march-past at Joda on Saturday in the wake of the ongoing agitation in the town over the issues of protest against beef supply and later in retaliation two unidentified miscreants having tried to kill a Bajrang Dal activist by abducting him from a bus on December13.
In this connection, an FIR has been filed in the Champua police station, but so far no culprit involved in the abduction case has been arrested by the police.
On Friday, a peace meeting was held at the Joda PS to maintain peace in the town.
But on Saturday, activists of Bajrang Dal held a meeting and announced that they would intensify their agitation in coming days till the culprits of the abduction case are arrested.
But police sources said that the culprits would be nabbed very soon and no one should try to disturb the communal harmony by creating law and order problems. The troublemakers would be dealt with stringently.
In the evening, a march-past of police personnel led by Keonjhar DSP SK Mahapatra was held in Joda town. Among others, Bajrang Dal activists Manas Ranjan Mohanty, Janmejaya Das, Giridhari lal, Amar Kumar Mahakud, Ganesh Sahu, Kaushik Singh (complainant), Mahesh Singh, Chandan Mishra, Pintu Singh, Harekrishna Das and Ganesh Bhai were present.