Jaleswar: Police were attacked by locals when they went to arrest a 19-year-old drug peddler in Sekhbard village of Balasore district late Tuesday night. Villagers including women attacked the police in large numbers. Police had visited the village after arresting another drug peddler with 283gm of brown sugar worth Rs 28.30 lakh earlier in the day from a locality close to State Highway No 57.
Police also seized three mobiles from the accused. After grilling the peddler, police came to know about his associate. Despite being attacked, police managed to nab the second person. Now a manhunt has been launched for all the others involved in the attack on the police contingent. “All the persons involved in the attack will be arrested soon. We are searching for them,” SP Sagarika Nath stated at a press conference here Wednesday evening.
She, however, did not disclose the identity of the arrested persons as the probe is still on. The SP also informed that 10 checkpoints have been set up in various places of the district to prevent those accused in the police attack from escaping. All the checkpoints have been set up at places close to the border with West Bengal.