Odisha clashes: Tylter booked for criminal conspiracy
September 08, 2012 10:32
A case has been filed against Congress' Odisha in-charge Jagdish Tylter and seven others for Thursday's violent protests in the state. The Congress leader has been booked for criminal conspiracy.
A policewoman, who was beaten up by a mob on the rampage during a protest by party workers in Bhubaneswar on Thursday, said that she was attacked after Tytler called for barricades to be broken. "They attacked me as soon as Jagdish Tytler called on party workers to break the barricades," the woman cop reportedly told the Press Trust of India.
A crowd of more than 25,000 protestors -- who Congress MLA Bhupinder Singh now says were not all party workers but also "included unemployed youth, agitating teachers and auto-rickshaw drivers unhappy with new rules" -- tried to storm the Assembly on Thursday to demand the resignation of Chief Minister Navin Patnaik for what they allege is his involvement in the coal block allocation scam that has rocked Parliament as well.
A policewoman, who was beaten up by a mob on the rampage during a protest by party workers in Bhubaneswar on Thursday, said that she was attacked after Tytler called for barricades to be broken. "They attacked me as soon as Jagdish Tytler called on party workers to break the barricades," the woman cop reportedly told the Press Trust of India.
A crowd of more than 25,000 protestors -- who Congress MLA Bhupinder Singh now says were not all party workers but also "included unemployed youth, agitating teachers and auto-rickshaw drivers unhappy with new rules" -- tried to storm the Assembly on Thursday to demand the resignation of Chief Minister Navin Patnaik for what they allege is his involvement in the coal block allocation scam that has rocked Parliament as well.
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