BJD leader arrested for attacking scribe
IANS | HT Correspondent, Kendrapada (orissa)
Jul 20, 2007 06:12 PM IST
A leader of Orissa's ruling Biju Janata Dal was arrested on Thursday for attacking a journalist in Kendrapada district, says the police.
A leader of Orissa's ruling Biju Janata Dal was arrested on Thursday for attacking a journalist in Kendrapada district, police said.
On Wednesday, Bikram Das, husband of Kendrapada district council chairperson Manjulata Das, allegedly assaulted Suvarnsu Sutar, a scribe of an Oriya daily at Rajkanika village in the district, some 150 kms from Kendrapada.
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Acting on Sutar's complaint, police arrested Das and produced him in a court in Kendrapada.
The court rejected his bail petition and remanded him to jail custody, Ratnakar Mallik, a district police officer, said.
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