**Koraput:** One person was killed and another injured after miscreants opened fire at a public place in Dhanapunji area under Kotpad police limits here on Tuesday evening.
The deceased has been identified as Eswar Rao and one Debanand Bag has sustained a bullet injury on his upper limb. Rao has criminal antecedents.
The incident has taken place very close to the Odisha-Chhattisgarh border at around 8 pm today. While it is suspected that the incident is a fallout of the illegal ‘ganja’ trade in the area, police is yet to ascertain the motive behind the crime.
“The injured person has been shifted to the district headquarters hospital. A case has been registered and we are investigating all angles,” SP KV Singh said. The ganja trading angle will also be probed, he added.
The region has been notorious for illegal trading of the contraband and the police have arrested at least 40 persons and seized more than nine quintals of ganja in the past one month.