Bhubaneswar: The Commissionerate Police has submitted its charge sheet in the sensational Manish Anurag alias Guddu murder case.
The Investigating Officer (IO) and Infocity Police Station IIC Samita Mishra on Friday evening submitted a 400-page preliminary charge sheet at the Sub Divisional Judicial Magistrate’s (SDJM) Court here against the three accused persons-friend of Manish and resident of Nayapalli Amrit Pritam Biswal, Dinesh Kumar Mohapatra of Anlapada and Mrutunjaya Mishra alias Munna of Peonpada in Kandhamal district before the expiry of the mandatory requirement for the filing of charge sheet against accused persons within 120 days of them being forwarded to court. The 120-day period would have expired on Saturday.
Reportedly, the accused persons have been charged under sections 364 (A), 302, 201, and 34 of IPC in the charge sheet submitted by the police.
Since investigation in the case is underway, police will file the final charge sheet later.
According to reports, on the fateful day-October 9, last year, Manish and the three accused persons had food at the South City Hotel & Bar located in Patrapada locality of the city.
They had a scuffle among themselves over the payment of the hotel bill. Manish footed the bill after getting a money transfer twice from his mother. After Manish had walked out of the hotel, the accused persons followed him.
Subsequently, Manish and his friends had heated arguments over the issue resulting in a fight near the national highway. Manish was allegedly killed in the attack. In order to destroy evidence, the accused persons (friends of Manish) carried Manish’s body in Amrit Pritam’s car and dumped it in the Namrakani pond at Patrapada.
On October 10 at the break of dawn, Manish’s parents lodged a complaint at the Infocity police station that their son has been kidnapped. Later in the day police recovered Manish’s body from the pond at Patrapada.
The police after conducting raids at several places in the city first arrested Amrit Pritam and later picked up the other two accused from Kandhamal.
The accused persons after committing the crime had stayed at a hotel in Unit IV and had left for Kandhamal the next day.
It is pertinent to mention here that Manish was the elder son of senior journalist Navin Das.
