Bhubaneswar, March 30 -- The Cuttack -Bhubaneswar Commissionerate Police arrested a youth in connection with the violence that erupted during the Congress Party's Odisha Assembly gherao protest at lower PMG area. The accused, identified as Mirza Islam Baig, is a resident of Haridhashpur in the Pahala police station area.

As per Bhubaneswar DCP Jagmohan Meena, Baig was arrested in connection with Case No. 130, registered on March 28 at the Capital Police Station on the basis of a report lodged by Inspector-in-Charge (IIC) of Capital Police Station, Dayanidhi Nayak.

In the written report, the IIC stated that during the protest, thousands of agitators disrupted law and order by attacking police personnel with stones, eggs, bottles, bricks,...