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Khordha: Police arrested at least nine persons on Friday for attacking a group of Tehsildar and Additional Tehsildar and snatching away seized vehicles from them in Patrapada Mouza under Badapokharia Panchayat on Wednesday.
The arrests were made by Khordha Police after it got a tip-off on the hideouts of the accused in Badapokharia village and raided it. Eight platoons of police force took part in the raid under Khordha SP Dipti Ranjan Roy and nabbed eight accused from the spot.
Earlier in the day, Khordha Police had arrested a man from the same village after three special squads formed by Roy conducted a search. Police had also seized three motorcycles used by the accused in the crime from the spot.
Police had registered cases against 40 persons after Khordha Tehsildar Subhendu Kumar Sahoo, Tangi Tehsildar Asish Kumar Jena and Chilika Additional Tehsildar Prithviraj Mandal were attacked by members of stone mafia group in Badapokharia village on February 7 after seizing a number of vehicles from illegal stone quarries.
They invited the wrath of the angry mafia after rejecting the latter’s proposal to hand over the vehicles by accepting bribe. The angry mafia members snatched away the seized vehicles including two trucks, two JCBs and eight power tillers from the officials and then tried to mow them down by a JCB.
Ms Kalinga