The road blockade call given by crusher owners of Ichak area of Hazaribagh district failed as no one came forward to block the lifeline of Jharkhand NH33 on Saturday till noon. Media person, administrative officers and police force were there but when it became clear that no one is daring to come in front then they got relaxed and most of them returned from Ichak More.
The crusher owners of Ichak area in which most are attached with some political parties have announced on Friday that they will block NH33 with the help of their sympathisers on Saturday morning against the brutal lathi charge incident of Thursday and FIR lodged on Friday.
On Thursday the Ichak More area of Hazaribagh district situated on NH33, which is hardly 15 km away from the headquarter, had turned into a battlefield when the crusher owners and their sympathisers started throwing stones on the members of Special Task Force constituted by Deputy Commissioner to demolish the illegal crushers.
In that incident Assistant District Mining Officer and three police jawans were injured and the vehicles of SDO and other officers were damaged by the mob. On Friday an FIR was lodged by ADMO Narayan Ram in which five were name accused and 250 were made unnamed accused. Among the named accused Pradeep Prasad of AJSU, In-Charge of Barkattha assembly constituency, and some other known politicians of the area has been included.
Deputy Commissioner Sunil Kumar has taken the incident very seriously and has said that all the illegal crushers will be demolished. He had given one week time to the crusher owners to show their papers if they want to save their unit from being demolished.