Anti-Posco leader arrested in Odisha

May 11, 2013 21:59

Anti-Posco leader Abhay Sahu was arrested today in connection with several cases, including a bomb blast in which three people had been killed at the proposed steel plant site in Odisha's Jagatsinghpur district.

After being arrested from Bhubaneswar by a police team from Jatatsinghpur, Sahu was taken to Kujanga near Paradip and produced before a court which remanded him to judicial custody for 14 days, police said.

"Sahu, who was to leave for Coimbatore in Tamil Nadu, was arrested from Bhubaneswar by a police team shortly before (the) departure of his flight," Deputy Superintendent of Police (Paradip) Bhabani Shankar Mishra said.

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