Dumka, Nov. 2: The district administration was taken aback by the assault of five district mining personnel in the hands of villagers opposing private power plants.
But it is yet to make a strategy to counter the raising Naxalite interference in the anti-power project movements.
The villagers had reportedly assaulted the five district mining employees, who went to survey the progress of work at Pokharia, on October 31.
The villagers garlanded the mining personnel with shoes and sandals and took out a procession. The faces of the employees were painted black. Before the protesters set victims free, they made the mining staff lick soil.
The superintendent of police of Dumka, Arun Kumar Singh, said: “None of the victims have registered a complaint with us. Not only that, they refused to comment before reporters and even they did not inform the officer concerned in the department here. They rather preferred to keep mum on this issue.”
