A company of Rapid Action Force staged flag march at village lokya on Monday as part of confidence building measure. RAF reached Daltonganj from Ranchi last night as SDO Sadar imposed prohibitory order under section 144 of CrPC at lokya village.
Police have recovered iron rods and residue of handmade bomb from the site where a portion of the boundary wall of a graveyard was demolished on Sunday by a mob of 800 people agitated over a passage dispute to a religious place there.
Police have identified three social media users for exchanging objectionable stuffs detrimental to peace and communal harmony. Police said it would book these three under the IT Act. Magistrate deputed at lokya has filed the FIR with Chainpur police station against 50 identified persons and 800 others unidentified. Police have arrested 12, said SP Indrajeet Mahatha.
Palamu police had a tough time in taming and dispersing the mob equipped with sharp weapons. Roof of a house belonging to a community was ransacked which the administration has assured to rebuild. IG police Navin K Singh was monitoring the situation and giving instructions to the police officials here to defuse the communal commotion. The SP maintained that no migration out of fear has taken place from lokya village.