Latehar: Protests broke out on Saturday Jharkhand's in Latehar district over the alleged murder of two cattle traders.
The protesters also hurled stones at the cops as they tried to retrieve the bodies. Villagers say the two victims had left their homes for a cattle trade fair in the neighbouring Chatra district when they went missing.
Five people have been arrested by police while two are still absconding.
A 32-year-old man and a teenager were found hanging from a tree at Jhabbar under Balumath police station of Latehar district, triggering violence that left an SDO and six policemen injured.
Targeting the BJP government, the Congress said the incident reflected the failure of the BJP led government in the state.
Stating that the killings of Balumath is bigger than the Dadri incident, JVM chief Babulal Marandi alleged that Jharkhand has become a lawless state under the BJP regime.
The victims were butchered and hanged only because they were ferrying cattle though no ban was imposed on cattle ferrying or trading in the state, the former Chief Minister of the state said.
The situation has reached such an extent that the police were forcing shopkeepers to down their shutters and asking people to remain indoors after 8 PM, he said.
Even the entry of people in the famous Jubilee Park in Jamshedpur, one of the most developed cities of the state, was banned after 8 pm, Marandi said.
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