Police arrested a person on Saturday on the charge of assaulting a bus driver and teacher of a Bhubaneswar- based school at the famous Buddhist site of Ratnagiri under the Bari police station in Jajpur district.
The arrestee was identified as Khirod Samal (35), a shop owner of Ratnagiri village.
Sources said around 500 students and teachers of a Bhubaneswar- based Saraswati Sishu Mandir came to Ratnagiri on Saturday. Following an altercation over parking of the bus, two persons including the shop owner attacked the driver.
A teacher Bhagaban Mudali who rushed to the rescue of the driver was hit with a wooden plank. The teacher has sustained serious head injuries, said the IIC of Bari PS, Pabitra Moharana.
After this incident, security has been tightened by the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) and the police at Ratnagiri, added the IIC.