Jajpur: Jajpur Road police have arrested six persons from Mundamala village on the charge of thrashing Vyas Nagar tehsildar and executive magistrate and his staff.

The police swung into action after getting a complaint from tehsildar Sapan Kumar Nanda and made the arrests on Saturday.

The arrested persons have been identified as mining mafia Babuli Mallick (42), Raja Das (30), Manjulata Jena (45), Devaki Mallick (65), Kabita Mallick (30) and Prasanna Mallick (18) of Mundamal village.

Jajpur Road police station inspector-in-charge Amitav Mohapatra said that although around four dozens of people, many of them women, were involved in the attack, only six were taken into custody. Other accused persons are still at large.

The arrested were forwarded to a local court on Sunday and were remanded in judicial custody after their bail applications were rejected. The attack took place on Wednesday morning at Mun-damala village in Vyas Nagar tehsil area in the district.

Local mining mafia Babuli Malik and their supporters attacked Vyas Nagar tehsildar Sapan Kumar Nanda, Pachhikote circle revenue inspector Sujit Kumar Samal, one assistant revenue inspector and two other staff members of Vyas Nagar tehsil.

The mafia and his supporters thrashed the tehsildar and his staff after a special squad, led by Nanda, detained a vehicle for illegally transporting morrum.

The attackers allegedly detained them for more than one hour after the special squad caught the local mafia smuggling the minor minerals in a pick-up van.