**Bhubaneswar: ** The Comissionerate police on Sunday seized the mobile phone of Ashutosh Mohanty alias Rishi who died here last year under mysterious circumstances.
Briefing to the media here, Police commissioner Y.B. Khurania said the cell phone will be sent to Central Forensic Science Laboratory in Kolkata.
“We have seized the cell phone which was used by the deceased. It will be sent to the Central Forensic Lab in Kolkata for examination. We will try to extract the data from call records and find out whether whether it had the video file that is being circulated on social media,” Khurania said.
Notably, Rishi died under unusual circumstances on 6th May 2016. After eight months of the incident, fresh connections surfaced over his death as a video clip, allegedly featuring
Bhubaneswar Mayor Anant Narayan Jena, went viral on social media. Rishis’s friends have alleged that he was murdered with cold blood because of the video clip.