MlA Barkagaon Nirmala Devi has filed a case in the court of district and session judge, Hazaribagh in which she had made the police, administrative and NTPC officials accused for the firing incident of August 14 near R&R colony site situated at Dhenga village of Barkagaon.
In her petition, she had stated that on August 14, Kisan Adhikar Maharally was organised at Barkagaon by Ex-MlA Yogendra Sao and herself.
The purpose of this rally was to make people aware about the sub-standard quality of construction work going on in proposed R&R colony and to demand more compensation from NTPC.
When the rally was at its peak, suddenly police and public attending the rally started confronting with each other which resulted in torching of vehicles, stone picketing, lathicharge and finally, firing by the police.
In this incident, six people were badly injured and admitted to Sadar Hospital, Hazaribagh from where they were arrested and sent to jail.
The administration then filed an FIR in which she, Yogendra Sao and 66 others were made named accused and 150 others were shown as unnamed accused.
Both were arrested along with others and sent to jail, Yogendra Sao is still in jail. MlA Nirmala Devi has made 37 named accused in her complaint case.
She has made Sadar SDO Anuj Prasad, Executive Magistrate Anant Kumar, DSP Dinesh Kumar Gupta, Prayrelal, then CO of Barkagaon, BDO Ashok Chopra, Inspector Awdesh Singh, OIC Barkagaon Ramdayal Munda, ED NTPC Coal Projects RS Rathi, AGM SK Tiwari, BB Mahapatra, AK Das, AK Sharma, Pradeep lahari, Purusottam Soni, Srikant Sinha, Contractor Kavindra Singh and other named accused of Barakagaon firing incident and has demanded action against all of them.