Traffic movement came to stand still on Dimna lake and Patamda on Sunday morning, when angry villagers set up a blockade to protest murder of a 45-year-old man at Mirzdih under Bodam police station area late last night.
The victim Chitaranjan Ghosh, was lynched by a group of assailants on Jamshedpur-Mirzadih Road near his house on Saturday. As the news spread superintendent of police (rural) Devendra Thakur reached the site and assured protestors that those involved in the murder would be arrest soon.
Chitaranjan owned a stationary shop on the Mirzadih and he was returning home when he was attacked. The members of the bereaved family rushed him in an auto-truck and took it to the adjoining MGM police station.
Victim's younger brother, Niranjan said that two land mafias, Sanatan Singh Sardar and Jogen Ram Murmu murdered his brother with the help of four-five others.
Niranjan said that both the accused grabbed Government land and wanted to sell it.
"I am in a state of shock, we want justice. We have a plot of land beside the Government land, but Sanatan and Jogen maintained that it was encroached. Therefore, they had been pressing us to vacate it," Niranjan said.
The SP informed that four of the assailants have been arrested today. "We have registered a murder case against those involved and arrested four accused this afternoon,".
One of the protestors, said that Sanatan and Jogen had also attacked a villager a year ago and though the police arrested the duo but left them just the next day.