locals blocked Ranchi-Dumka road for seven hours on Saturday demanding compensation and construction of a speed breaker following a road accident that badly injured a 16-year-old student Deepak Panday on Saturday morning.
According to reports, people blockaded Ranchi-Dumka road near railway gate no 20B, 3T around 8am, halting vehicular movement till 3 pm. They finally left the road after seven hours, when the local police administration, people of the locality and trailer’s owner were finally stated their compensation.
Police sources said that a school student Deepak Panday, son of Yogendra Panday of Barki-saria area was going on his cycle for tuition around 6 am on Saturday. He was far from the road but he was knocked down by speeding trailer at Vivekananda chock in Saria.
The boy got badly injured and was sent to the Dhanbad for treatment.
later the agitated residents of the area blocked the Ranchi-Dumka road under the leadership of Chhotu Mandal, Vinod Mandal, Pramod Mandal, Satish Mandal and Pintu Thakur, demanding compensation tothe victim family.
The local administration and owner of the trailer arrived on the spot and provided an immediate relief of Rs 30,000 to the victim’s family and also assured them the entire expenditure of treatment would be given to the victim’s family. After the assurance, the normal traffic was resumed, sources said.