Youth Killed In Bombing In Jajpur, Police Sub-Inspector Suspended

A day after a person died in bomb attack following a dispute over sand mining at Bagmara in Jajpur district, a Police Sub-Inspector (SI) has suspended for dereliction of duty on Friday.

Jajpur SP Rahul PR suspended the SI of Binjharpur police staion, Kanduri Das for not failing to initiate appropriate action despite the registration of an FIR.

Narayan Barik, Jajpur Additional SP, said, “The SP has suspended the Sub-Inspector who has now been attached to the headquarters. Our teams are carrying out probe to nab the prime accused in the bombing case.”

One Surendra Das was critically injured after miscreants hurled bombs at him following a dispute over lease of a sand quarry on Thursday. It is pertinent to mention here that local sand mafia was not allowing Surendra and his associates to carryout sand mining in the area.

The youth was subsequently rushed to the hospital where he succumbed to the injuries. It was for the second time that miscreants had attacked Surendra. Earlier, a bomb was hurled at him on March 19.

Meanwhile, the residents of Kalyanpur village staged a demonstration and blocked the Jajpur-Singhpur road in protest of the death of the youth. They demanded the immediate arrest of miscreants involved in bombing incident.