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There was a pandemonium on the Main Road and Lake Road in Hindpiri police station area for over three hours as the members of a minority community took to the streets protesting what they alleged a deliberate attempt by an alleged Ram Singh to disturb the evening Taraabi (special prayers offered during Ramzaan).
Singh was not available for comments but his supporters said that they were being prohibited from celebrating Krishna Janmashtmi despite allegedly agreeing to conditions laid down by the other community’s members.
The clash began around 9 pm as the agitated mob frequently fired in air, pelted stones and raised slogans. At least five persons reportedly sustained injuries in the stampede that followed the initial crash. Police refused to confirm the number of injured.
 

The Jharkhand High Court has directed CBI to locate a petitioner on whose PIL a probe into the disproportionate assets case against former chief minister Madhu Koda and seven others was ordered. The direction by the division bench headed by Chief Justice Bhagwati Prasad came after Jharkhand police chief Neyaz Ahmed personally appeared and informed the court that petitioner Durga Oraon's name was nowhere in the voters' list either at Simdega or in Ranchi and all police stations have been informed to locate him.
During the last hearing of the case, the court had asked the DGP to locate Oraon and ensure his presence with proper security today. In pursuance of the order, the police had on Sunday issued advertisements in local newspapers to locate Oraon so that proper security arrangements could be made for his presence in court.
Oraon''s counsel Ritu Kumar, however, informed the court that her client had sent a communication from Simdega to her saying that he could not appear as he feared a threat to his life if he comes to Ranchi. After hearing Oraon''s PIL, the high court had on August 4 ordered a CBI inquiry into the alleged disproportionate assets of Koda and his former cabinet colleagues Enos Ekka, Harinaryan Rai, Chandraprakash Choudhary, Dulal Bhuyan, Kamlesh Singh, Bhanu Pratap Sahi and Bandhu Tirkey.
In a fresh directive in the case, the bench ordered the CBI to investigate allegations of a sting operation that purportedly recorded a conversation allegedly between an aide of Koda and a counsel of Durga Oraon to ''manage the case''. The bench was informed about it during the course of hearing on an earlier date.