Bhubaneswar: Residents of Dumduma and Jagamara area staged protest on the NH-5 stretch near Aignia square Monday afternoon over lynching of a youth by some villagers at Canal Bandha area near Pokhariput late Sunday evening.
Around 300 protestors blocked the national highway, burnt tyres there and demanded immediate arrest of the accused persons.
The deceased has been identified as Jyoti Prakash Baliarsingh who worked as a gym instructor and at night he was a bouncer at a nightclub in Raghunathnagar, Jagamara, was killed over a road mishap.
Sources said Jyoti along with his two friends, Chiku and Chintu, was returning home on a motorcycle after attending a wedding when Jyoti’s motorcycle brushed with another bike coming from the opposite side.
The rider of the other bike, Sameer of Bahadalpur area
under the Airfield police station, was with his mother on the
motorcycle.
The collision occurred at Sunderpada-Sarkantara canal Bandha area.
An altercation ensued during which an inebriated Jyoti and his friends pushed over the motorcycle carrying the mother-son duo.
The lady fell off the bike and sustained injuries on her waist.
Hearing the lady’s cry, around 20 villagers rushed to the spot and started beating up the trio with bamboo sticks. The woman’s son also called up his friends who arrived immediately as the place was near Bahadalpur.
However, Jyoti’s friends managed to escape but Jyoti failed to do so.
After a few hours, some passersby noticed Jyoti lying senseless on the road and so, they informed a PCR van of Airfield police station which rushed a profusely bleeding Jyoti to Capital hospital where he was declared brought dead.
The deceased youth’s family filed a complaint of murder with the Airfield police station as the incident occurred under its limits following which the two sons of the lady— Sameer Sahoo and Deepak Sahoo—were detained by the Airfield police station.
“A case (227/18) has been
registered under sections
302, 34 of the IPC. We have identified all the persons involved
in the murder and are soon
going to arrest them all,” informed Devi Shanakar Pratap,
inspector in-charge of Airfield Police station.
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