Eleven people, including seven policemen, were today injured when a mob clashed with police at Parbalsa village in this Jharkhand district.
“After baton charge and bursting of tear gas shells failed to control the mob, the police fired wounding four
persons,” SP Hemant Toppo said.
The police action came after the mob attacked them for being stopped from damaging one Jaidhan Hembram’s house, he
told reporters here.
Officer-in-charge of Tonra police station Saiffuddin Ahmed was among seven policemen who were injured in the
attack, he said, adding the mob shot arrows and hurled stones at the police.
Trouble started when Hembram did not turn up at “Mode Manjhi”, a traditional tribal panchayat, convened to settle a
land dispute allegedly involving Hembram and two others — Durgi Soren and Gale Soren, Toppo said.
The panchayat was convened at the insistence of the Sorens despite sub-divisional officer Sanjay Kumar Singh had
intervened on April 4 and settled the dispute in favour of the Sorens, he said.
———————— PTI