Overview
- Police in Jajpur, following Saturday's raid that left Vyasanagar tehsildar Prashant Kumar Panda badly injured, arrested ten suspects on Sunday and sent them to judicial custody.
- Investigators say miscreants rammed a tractor into the officer during an illegal soil mining raid near Minabazar in Korei after a tip-off about unauthorised digging.
- Doctors in Cuttack are treating Panda after an initial stop at the Korei Community Health Centre, and his condition is described as serious but stable.
- Officers reported seizing equipment used in the operation, with public accounts differing on the count between two tractors and one JCB or seven tractors and two JCBs.
- Police are pursuing charges under the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita and the Odisha Minor Mineral Concession Rules in a district where illicit soil extraction has long strained enforcement.