Protesting Vigilance raid on the houses on Pramod Samal,headmaster of Kudamusa Primary School in Sundargarh district and hisarrest on Thursday, who happens to be the Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU) treasurer, CITU and CPM activists on Thursday resorted to road blockade at four places in Bonai.
Bonei police detained over 100 activists and later, released them. Vigilance sleuths on Wednesday had conducted the raid in the houses of Samal and had found assets worth over Rs 1 crore in his possession. Following the raid and arrest of Samal, hundreds of CITU and CPM activists staged road blockade on Thursday at Roxi Square, Narendra Square, Bimlagarh Square and Koira under Bonei sub-division and claimed the arrest of Samal to be illegal and demanded immediate release of Samal. The blockade was vacated with intervention of police.