No shoot-at-sight orders, says SP

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No shoot-at-sight orders, says SP


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‘Police have prepared a list of 18 persons to be arrested’
KORAPUT: No shoot-at-sight orders were issued against anybody or group of people in Narayanpatna block, said SP Deepak Kumar.
Addressing a press along with district Collector Gadadhar Parida on Thursday, he said many people had fled into nearby forests after the attack on the police station by members of Chasi Mulia Adivasi Sangh. Police had prepared a list of 18 persons and only they would be arrested, he said.
Special mobile health units would now be available for people at their villages in the block from Friday to provide health care to ailing people, especially those injured in the firing, the Collector said. While members of the CMAS had grown paddy on about 2000 acres of occupied land, crop on only 500 acres was harvested before the recent firing. But as the land belonged to some one else in the official records, the crop may get wasted in the field. The administration could hardly do anything to save crop on a private land, he said.
The SP said while primarily police had reacted to the attack on the police station, there was sufficient police force compared to earlier days for carrying out such an operation in Narayanpatna block .While the police had opened 82 rounds of fire in retaliation to the attack on the police station, 57 persons were arrested in connection with the incident, he added. Rajesh Pravakar Patil, Sub-Collector, was also present at the press meet .


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