Puri, July 19: For attacking and creating tension with a media person during the Niladri Bije of lord Jagannath and his siblings, the police arrested six servitors namely Bapi Khuntia, Shankar Palankdhari, Bipin Patri, Papun Mohapatra, Baban Khuntia and Madan Khuntia who was arrested earlier, on Tuesday.
Arvind Agarwal, Collector of Puri and Sarthak Sarangi , the SP also lodged two FIRs against the six servitors, Damodar Mahasura, Jayakrushna Mahasura, Bhimsen Palankdhari, Rabi Das, Ipsit Pratihari and Saina Khuntia, on the grounds of being misbehaved and ambushed by them with foul languages and threatening to get killed during the Niladri Bije on Sunday.
3 new cases, i.e., one based on the on – duty ASI’s report and two cases based on the Puri Collector’s report have been registered in this connection.
The Pahandi of Sudarsana during the Niladri Bije of the deities from the chariots to the Ratna Sinhasana had to be stopped forcibly after Puri Collector Arvind Agarwal, who was also present at the spot, had a quarrel with some servitors who allowed some of the devotees, said to be relatives of these servitors, to climb the chariots.
Also some media persons, who had gone there to find out the reason of delay of the ritual, were also manhandled by the servitors.
Notably, a young girl, on being accompanied by a senior servitor, climbed the Taladhwaja Chariot of Lord Balabhadra, whereas two girls and a woman were also found climbing the Nandighosa and Taladhwaja chariots.
