By IANS
Jajpur (Orissa) : Police have registered criminal cases against over 200 people for causing inconvenience to local people by blocking a road in Orissa's Jajpur district in protest against the death of a minor in a road mishap, official said Thursday.
On Monday, hundreds of residents of Chandama and Kanheipur villages including students of a local school staged road blockade at Kanheipur on the national highway-215 on which the boy was run over by a speeding truck.
Debasish Samal, a resident of Kanheipur village, was a student of the school.
As the news of his death spread, local people blocked the road and demanded immediate ban on plying of trucks during daytime.
Thousands of iron ore-laden trucks were seen stranded along the road following the blockade, a district police official said.
The blockade caused inconvenience to public for over six hours as traffic movement on the highway came to a grinding halt, he added.
Normal movement of traffic was restored after the blockade was cleared, he said.
We have registered criminal cases against 200 people under various sections of the Indian Penal Code, an official of the Jajpur road police station said.