April 17 :     Shoot-at-sight orders were issued and indefinite curfew was clamped in Bokaro and Chas today as clashes broke out over the gangrape of the daughter of a Bokaro steel plant official. Over 50 people, including the deputy superintendent of police Nagendra Prasad Singh, were injured in the clash. Demonstrators damaged over a dozen government and private vehicles and ransacked 20 shops. Regional inspector-general (IG) of police Jyoti Kumar Sinha has rushed to Bokaro to oversee deployment of three additional companies of paramilitary forces. Superintendent of police V.H. Deshmukh said the police had to fire several rounds in the air to quell the mob. Twenty people have been arrested. Deputy commissioner of Bokaro Chanchal Kumar said no identified gangs or criminals with known background were involved in the incident. ?Those involved in the ransacking were young men with no political affiliations. We declared curfew at 3 pm and Rapid Action Force has been deployed after shops were set on fire and two jeeps were torched,? Kumar said. Eyewitnesses alleged members of a particular community tried to loot several houses near the Chas More this morning. The DSP, who was patrolling the area, tried to stop the arsonists. The anti socials retaliated by setting the police jeep on fire. ?The situation is under control and people from the Bokaro steel plant are safely going for work and getting back home. As many as 12 people have been arrested in connection with the rape and we are in the process of rounding up more,? said Kumar. The victim, a resident of Bokaro, was abducted on April 5. She taken in an auto-rickshaw to an adjoining village, Charra, and gangraped. The auto-rickshaw has been seized. The police have also recovered a blood-stained dress from the spot. Dairy cattle snatched: Ranchi and Gumla districts were tense today after activists of the banned Maoist Communist Centre (MCC) today whisked away at least 100 cows meant for the slaughter house. The cattle was being taken to slaughter houses between Bero in Ranchi and Bharno in Gumla district, our correspondent reports.