Unable to execute arrest warrant issued against JVM legislator Pradeep Yadav the Godda district administration has come up with lots of excuses. District officials maintained that the agitators in the leadership of the MlA were using women and children as human shield obstructing their way to duty.
Godda SP Harilal Chauhan said that the situation at the agitation site was such that the police had to backtrack on many occasions. “Since the dharna has started we have tried twice to arrest the MlA and execute the warrant already issued against him for disrupting a public hearing for Adani power plant. Both our attempts have failed due to their tactics to use women and children as shied. They are brining them forward whenever the police advance,” the SP told The Pioneer on Wednesday stating the reasons behind failure to execute the warrant even when the agitation enters into its fourth day.
Nevertheless following the recent protest started against the power plant on April 16 Yadav has been slapped with two additional FIRs for obstructing police, creating disturbances and several other issues cognizable under different sections of the IPC and the CrPC.
“Yesterday itself (on Tuesday) the DDC and the SDO went there for any amicable solution and reconciliation. But again they brought the women and children present over there forward with traditional weapons and surrounded the officials. They have created a different kind of environment and theatrics is taking place there by deploying music, DJ, singers. Many of the people at the site are outsiders and have been brought on rent to create nuisance,” said Harilal Chauhan.
The party is opposing setting up the power plant on various grounds including displacement, rehabilitation, water shortage, environmental degradation and compensation. Earlier it had objected to the public hearings conducted for the company by the concerned officials terming those fake.
Now when the administration has gone ahead with demarcation of raiyati lands and inching ahead towards final land acquisition for the company, the JVM has staged protest at Gaighat of Godda whereas its president Babulal Marandi is slated to sit on dharna in front of Raj Bhawan in Ranchi from Thursday.
The dharna on Wednesday saw some worrying signs as well. Pradeep Yadav, who is on indefinite fast, recorded five kg loss in weight, blood pressure recording 90/160 and sugar level at 86. Some women on dharna site have also reported deteriorating health condition.
However the administration is at the same time also busy chalking out its strategy about how to deal with the agitation. “We have to take care of law and situation in the district as well and ensure that no harm is done to the innocent women and children present over there. Soon we would decide how to go ahead,” said Godda DC Bhuvanesh Pratap Singh.