Bhubaneswar: Mancheswar police have arrested Sulei Nayak, the mastermind behind the brutal murder of police mitra and sanitation supervisor Sahadev Nayak, 10 months after the incident.
Sahadev was hacked to death near the Rasulgarh flyover in Bhubaneswar on January 8, allegedly by a group of persons, including Sulei Nayak. The police had arrested six people in connection with the case. Police had earlier issued a warrant against Sulei and he will be produced in court soon.
The deceased was also the president of the BMC Safai Karmachari Association.
According to report, Nayak was returning home after leaving his daughter at her school in the VSS Nagar area on January 8. The bike-borne miscreants, who were following the victim’s motorcycle, attacked him with a sword on the railway overbridge near busy Rasulgarh square. The accused persons fled the crime scene leaving Nayak in a pool of blood.
Upon being informed, police immediately reached the spot and rushed the victim to Capital Hospital where the doctors declared him dead.
Sulei’s arrest brings hope for justice to Sahadev’s family.
