Police on Tuesday arrested three persons, including a minor, on the charge of misbehaving with a young woman and damaging her two-wheeler at Delta Square under the Khandagiri police station during the BJD’s hartal on Monday.
A case under Sections 143, 147, 294, 323, 354, 341, 506 and 149 of IPC has been registered in this regard at the Khandagiri police station and investigation is on, police sources said.
Notably, during the hartal protesters were seen hitting the woman’s vehicle with lathis and stopping her from moving ahead, staging a road blockade.
Moreover, after receiving a lot of flak for turning a blind eye while the BJD workers resorted to violence in the State capital during the five-hour-long hartal called by the ruling party, the Commissionerate police have suo motu registered the cases against the rioters.
The police have registered separate cases against the perpetrators of violence in the Khandagiri, Kharavel Nagar, Capital and Chandrasekharpur police stations, sources said.
The police registered the cases after examining CCTV and video footages of the incidents, the sources said. The police said more arrests would be made within the course of investigations.