Ranchi: Police Thursday lodged an FIR against 300 unnamed people in connection with the August 10 march to the Jharkhand assembly over alleged recruitment examination irregularities in the state, a senior officer said.
The case was registered against the unnamed people for violating prohibitory orders, causing damage to government property and attacking police personnel, he said.
“An FIR has been lodged against 300 unknown miscreants at the Vidhan Sabha police station for disrupting the peaceful march to the assembly August 10,” Ranchi SP Paras Rana told PTI.
The process to identify these miscreants is underway through video footages, said SDPO (Hatia), Neeraj Kumar.
Earlier, Ranchi Deputy Commissioner Manjunath Bhajantri and SP Rakesh Ranjan had said that the adminstration will analyse CCTV footages to identify miscreants who disrupted the “peaceful” students’ protests August 10.
Addressing a press conference, they had also claimed that 14 police personnel were injured during the march to the assembly.
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The police had used batons, water cannons and tear gas to disperse the agitators August 10.
The job aspirants have been demonstrating for the past 20 days in Ranchi over the alleged irregularities.
