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Anti-Posco group takes 7 cops as hostage, frees them later [1]

Jagatsinghpur: Seven policemen were held hostage by a group of villagers opposing the Rs 52,000 crore Posco steel plant for nearly five hours on Saturday before being set free in Jagatsinghpur district.

Seven policemen and the driver of police jeep which entered Patana village in Dhinkia panchayat were stopped by villagers, mostly women and were held captive, Additional Superintendent of Police

Publication Date: 
30/05/2011
Pragtivadi (Bhubaneswar) [2]
Tags:
Orissa (Odisha) [3], POSCO [4], Jagatsinghpur (D) [5], Iron And Steel Industry [6], Land Acquisition [7]
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[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/jagatsinghpur-d
[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/iron-and-steel-industry
[7] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/land-acquisition