Bhubaneswar: Jagatsinghpur Collector today filed a status report in the Orissa High Court on the ground situation in Dhinkia village.
The High Court had sought a status report from the Home Department of Odisha government while conducting a hearing on a PIL filed by Kuni Mallick and four others on January 20 seeking a probe by a committee comprising a retired Judge of the high court, social activists, and members of the civil society into the “police atrocities” committed on the residents of Dhinkia.
Another PIL in this regard was also filed by a consortium of three well-known lawyers of the High Court.
The High Court today asked the petitioners to file their counter to the status report submitted by the government today. The High Court has scheduled the next hearing in the matter for February 16.
Dhinkia village under Erasama block in Jagatsinghpur district is the proposed site of a 13.2 million tonne per annum integrated steel plant by Jindal Steel Works (JSW).
During land acquisition for the proposed JSW project on January 14 at Dhinkia village a face-off between villagers and police had left more than two dozen villagers and five policemen injured.
