11 held with arms in Raxaul

Eleven persons were arrested with arms following the incident of alleged land grabbing that led to firing on Block road under Raxaul police station of Bihar's East Champaran district.
Eleven persons were arrested along with four automatic rifles, two pistols, one revolver and 100 live rounds of cartridge from the place of occurrence, Raxaul Deputy SP Rakesh Kumar said.
The incident occurred when a group of 15 to 20 people, allegedly land mafias, gathered at a plot located at Block road of Raxaul town with a view to erect boundary wall of the plot which was opposed by one Jaipal Sah and three others who claimed as the real owner of the said plot, Kumar said.

On this, the alleged land mafias started firing in the air in to threaten Jaipal Sah and his men that included some locals, he added.
Angry locals blocked NH 28 in protest against the incident and sat on dharna demanding removal of Raxaul SHO Rajeshwar Prasad who was hand in glove with land mafios.
The DSP said that Rajeshwar Prasad has been removed as SHO for alleged dereliction of duty on the basis of report submitted by him and Raxaul SDO

SP Jitendra Rana confirmed that the police opened three rounds of fire in its defence.
No one was injured in the firing, he added.

SP said that the incident is an act of land mafias and police were investigating their antecedents besides whether the arms licenses were genuine.