Bolangir: Punjilal Meher, the prime accused in the sensational Patnagarh gift bomb tragedy that claimed two lives was reproduced in the local SDJM court there and remanded again for five days’ custody Wednesday. The Crime Branch had sought an eight-day remand.
The Crime Branch hopes to elicit more information on how Meher executed the crime single-handedly as he had claimed. His earlier remand of six days ended Tuesday.
During interrogation, Meher stated that he sent the parcel bomb to the victims’ house in the guise of a marriage gift to take revenge on his college colleague Sanjukta Sahu, who had superseded him in the principal’s post through ‘unacceptable’ means. Sanjukta is mother of Soumya Sekhar, who along with his grandmother was killed in the mishap.
