Book BJP leader under NSA

BHADRAK: District Collector Akshaya Kumar Pani asked Bhadrak SP Chintamani Panda to book Bonth block BJP president and former block chairman Harmohan Behera under the National Security Act (NSA), 1980, on Saturday.Informing this to mediapersons, DSP Harekrushna Barik said Behera was arrested on Thursday following an FIR by the Bonth Block Development Officer and the block office clerk alleging that the former had verbally abused them inside the block office. He was forwarded to court on Friday which remanded him in judicial custody. Behera had a record of criminal activities in the area and as many as 17 criminal cases registered against him. Nine of them is non-bailable, the DSP added. Under these circumstances, the Collector ordered to book him under the NSA, 1980. The DSP further said proceedings against nine more anti-socials are on for booking them under the Act.