Bhubaneswar: The Commissionerate Police have arrested three accused allegedly involved in the gruesome murder of a youth on Wednesday morning on the Rasulgarh overbridge in Bhubaneswar.
The special squad of the police caught the three accused including a woman from Sarankula area in Nayagarh district. Though the exact motive behind the crime is still unclear, past enmity over the brown sugar business is said to be the reason behind the killing.
All the three accused are being questioned, police said.
The daylight murder today rocked State Capital which is under a heavy security blanket for the three-day Pravasi Bharatiya Divas convention from January 8-10.
The deceased, identified as Sahadev Nayak of Kedarpalli slum under the Capital Police station area, was an employee of the Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation and a police informer.
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 in the morning. 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.
The deceased’s wife alleged that some residents of the Kedarpalli slum who are engaged in selling brown sugar killed her husband for protesting against the illegal trade.
