PTI reported that a day after nabbing of a key accused in the clash at proposed POSCO steel plant site near here, CPI leader and former MLA Mr Narayan Reddy was arrested in connection with the violence that claimed one life.

Mr Reddy said “I have been framed in false case.”

Inspector Mr Gupteswar Bhoi said that Mr Reddy was caught near Japa Square in Erasama area of Jagatsinghpur district in the wee hours while he was trying to move out of the place.

After being arrested, the anti POSCO leader was taken to Kujang police station amid tight security and then produced before a local court which remanded him to judicial custody for two weeks.

Mr Reddy, against whom two FIRs were filed in connection with the December 14 violence that left D Swain dead and injured 25 others, had been camping in the area after the arrest of POSCO Pratirodh Sangram Samiti president Mr Abhay Sahu about a month ago, sources said.

(Sourced from PTI)