Students gherao police station and stage demonstration

Statesman News Service
PHULBANI , Dec. 4: A large section of students of Kalinga Mahavidyalay, G. Udayagiri took out a procession yesterday and gheraod the police station there and staged demonstration in front of it for a pretty long time protesting the callousness and apathy of the police to nab the culprits.
It may be noted that, one Sekhar Nayak, final year plus 3 student of the said college, was physically assaulted by a section of non-students at G. Udayagiri on 1 December due to some personal rivalry which sparked tension among the students and non students.

Registering a case against 11 persons only five of them were arrested and forwarded to the court yesterday. Police said other six others are absconding.

Demanding immediate arrest of the rest sixs, the procession was brought by the students.
They had also demanded to close the nearby foreign liquor shop from the locality. A section of women belonging to the Kanbagiri village also gheraod the PS yesterday demanding judicious police action into the case.

The situation is tense but under control. Three platoons of police force have been deployed in the town, information received from dictrict, police, office here today said.

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