Uneasy calm prevailed at Patrapada and Gabagaon villages near here on Sunday after the tension on Saturday evening when the dead body of Ranjit Das of Gabagaon, who was hacked to death by a rival group over past enmity on Friday, arrived from Cuttack.
The mob pelted stones and bricks at police personnel and their vehicles. However, as the body arrived in the village, hundreds of agitators, stopped the body on the way, demanding immediate arrest of the culprits involved in the brazen broad daylight murder, Rs20 lakh compensation to the kin of the deceased and a job to one of the family members.
District Collector Pramod Das, besides giving Rs10,000 from the Red Cross Funds to the bereaved family, also assured that the demand for Rs 20 lakh indemnity would be forwarded to the State Government for consideration. It was also assured to absorb the sister of the deceased in a private company or as a Home Guard.
The police arrested 16 persons who were involved in the stone pelting incident. Two platoons of police force are deployed while the prohibitory orders under Section 144 of the CrPc has been clamped, said ASP Santosh Nayak.
Two platoons of police forces have been deployed in Patrapada and Gabagaon Square to prevent any further flare up ,” said Nayak and added a manhunt is on to nab the culprits involved in the crime.