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CUTTACK: Police on Saturday raided shops selling 'manja' strings coated with powdered glass here and seized over 20 kilograms of the 'killer' threads. Many other mishaps due to 'manja' thread have also been reported in the city.Taking note of these bitter incidences, police had announced ban on sale, procurement and storage of 'manja' thread in Cuttack on December 4, 2015. Other police stations also conducted similar raids.On January 18, 2016, a five-year-old girl Swetalina Behera died after her neck was slashed with a sharp 'manja' thread at Telengapentha here. Even license for setting up temporary kite shops was provided on the condition that the trader would not sell the banned items.The Cuttack administration for the first time had identified 10 open fields in the city for safe kite flying. But police have now seized it," said Kalia Rout, a kite trader who operates in the city..