Police deployed on the collectorate premises after gangster Tito’s arrest was withdrawn on Sunday. Telegraph picture

Kendrapara, May 15: The administration today lifted prohibitory orders after 72 hours of uneasy calm in this district headquarters township following the arrest of gangster Tito on charges of fixing tenders.

Police today registered criminal cases against 70 followers of the gangster who had stormed into the district collectorate here literally holding the officials to ransom. The gangster’s arrest had triggered angry protest on May 12 May with a group of the Tito’s supporters protesting at the district collector’s office.

“The unruly mob that comprised, among others, the accomplices of the gangster, had disrupted administrative function in the collector’s office for over three hours. Cases under sections 147, 148, 342, 294, 427, 109, 506 and 149 of the Indian Penal Code, under section-7 of the Criminal Amendment Act and Police Act-34 was registered against the trouble-makers,” said Kendrapara superintendent of police Narasingh Bhol.

The situation is completely normal in the township. The bid to disrupt the law and order situation by the gangster’s followers have been foiled. The administration lifted the prohibitory order as normality has been restored, he said.

“Though prohibitory order has been withdrawn in all parts of the municipality, section 144 CrPC still remains enforced on the premises of the collectorate as a precautionary measure,” said Kendrapara collector Pradipta Kumar Pattnaik.