Bhubaneswar: Odisha Police have released photographs of 36 suspects involved in violence during September 6 Congress rally in Bhubaneswar in which a policewoman was thrashed and molested in the state capital, an official said on Thursday.
Deputy Commissioner of Police Nitinjit Singh said the pictures were extracted from 12-hour footage from closed-circuit television cameras. The footages are being examined to identify people involved in vandalism. The photographs are being circulated to nab the offenders.
"We are still examining the footage. We may release photographs of some more people soon," Singh said.
At least 100 people, including Congress protesters and several policemen, were injured when the rally by the state's main opposition party against Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik-led government on the issue of corruption on September 6 turned violent....
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Niranjan Patnaik, the Odisha Pradesh Congress Committee President said that the Congress rally in the state was not organised to attack the lady constable. ...
02:59 PM, Sep 08, 2012
Bhubaneswar: Under fire from friends and foes alike, Odisha Congress in-charge Jagdish Tytler on Saturday defended himself over the mob violence that broke out outside the state Assembly on Thursday in which a lady constable was attacked, saying that he was not a part of any conspiracy and that the police were equally to blame. The Odisha Police on Saturday filed a case against Tytler for the mob violence and...
01:32 PM, Sep 08, 2012
Bhubaneswar: The Congress on Friday said it was sorry for the assault on a woman constable during its rally in Bhubaneswar as the name of AICC in-charge of Odisha Jagadish Tytler came up. Narrating her experience, the woman constable said, "About 30 to 40 youths attacked me, showered blows, kicked me from back as soon as Jagdish Tytler called on party workers to break the barricade." Defending Tytler, Congress chief...
11:32 AM, Sep 08, 2012
Bhubaneswar: The woman constable, who was on Thursday beaten up by Congress workers outside the Odisha Assembly in Bhubaneswar, is recovering in a city hospital. Meanwhile, the Odisha Police have registered six FIRs in connection with the violent protests. The police have also arrested as many as 33 people in the case. Thursday's incident also led to chaos in the Odisha Assembly on Friday as MLAs from the Congress party...
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