Police fire in the air to disperse crowd
Nawada (PTI): Police fired six rounds in the air to disperse a stone-throwing crowd which surrounded a police station in Bihar's Nawada district on Saturday to protest the arrest of a leader of a local outfit formed to fight corruption.
Nearly 100 supporters of 'Bhrashtachar Mukti Morcha' laid a siege at Sirdala police station and hurled stones at it to protest the arrest of the leader Shambhu Prasad in connection with a case of assaulting a dalit woman, prompting the police to fire in the air to scare them away, official sources said.
Prasad, booked for assaulting a dalit member of the zila parishad recently, was arrested this morning.
There was no report of injury on either side and the situation was 'fully under control', the sources said.
Later, the protestors blocked the road at the main market for some time.
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