Bhubaneswar: Nayagarh Additional District Sessions Court on Friday convicted and awarded death penalty to a murder accused for killing two persons brutally in Nayagarh district five years back.
According to sources, this is the first case in Nayagarh district in which a murder accused has been sentenced to the death penalty. The accused who was sentenced to death is Niranjan Mallik, a resident of Kushdhipi village under Odgaon police station.
Going by the petition, Niranjan had killed two persons in Odgaon and injured three persons on January 17, 2019.
On the fateful day, Niranjan had attacked security guard Lochan Sethi, who was on duty at Odgaon Market. He hacked the watchman with the help of a wooden stick. He then barged into the house of a woman identified as Badni Pradhan near Odgaon cinema hall and killed her.
The court pronounced the order after hearing the statement of 27 witnesses and going through the police investigation report.
