Jamshedpur police on Friday obtained attachment notices against 21 people, including local Congress leader Firoz Khan, who are accused in the May 20 vandalism in Mango in the aftermath of the four lynchings at Rajnagar in neighbouring Seraikela-Kharsawan two days earlier.

Mango thana OC Rameswar Oraon said they had procured the ishtehar (attachment notice) against the accused from the court of first-class judicial magistrate Shivendu Dwivedi. "We shall put up the notices on the residential premises of the absconding by tonight (Friday). If they don't surrender, their properties will be attached in the presence of a judicial magistrate on Monday," he said.

The officer maintained that they had already arrested 20 people accused in the Mango caseof violence, besides seven persons who were involved in rumour-mongering on WhatsApp before the vandalism.

After four cattle traders were lynched in Rajnagar on May 18, members of Muslim Ekta Manch had called a bandh in Mango as a mark of protest. They forced shops to down shutters on May 20 and unleashed vandalism on streets.

"The bandh protagonists also attacked our thana and outpost with stone missiles, leaving over half a dozen policemen injured. The protest was quelled with the help of Rapid Action Force personnel," OC Oraon recalled.

DSP (HQ-I) K.N. Mishra said they had rolled out the process of kurki-jabti (attachment of properties) against the 21 violence accused, and were continuously raiding their houses in Jawaharnagar, Zakirnagar and Azadnagar areas of Mango.

Police said in the Rajnagar lynching case, 13 people had been arrested so far.

Bagbera thana OC Ram Jash Prasad said the total number of arrests in the May 18 Nagadih lynchings had reached 16, but village headman Rajaram Hansda who is the main accused in the murder of three youths was still absconding. "We have prayed to court for issuance of ishtehar against nine persons, including Hansda in the Nagadih lynching case," he added.