Ganjam: A 25-year-old youth was hacked to death over past enmity in Seragada area of Ganjam district Friday, police said.
The deceased was identified as Mangala Bhuyan, resident of Lanjiapalli village under Seragada police limits. On Friday morning, Bhuyan was going towards his village on his motorcycle when the accused persons waylaid him and later attacked him with sharp weapons.
A severely injured Bhuyan fell off the motorcycle and ran away, asking for help but none dared to rush for his help. Later, one of the accused crushed Mangala to death with a boulder, Aska SDPO Uma Shankar Singh said.
Informed, a team of Seragada PS along with IIC Barendra Sial and SDPO Uma Shankar and a forensic team reached the spot for the probe.
“We have so far arrested all the five persons involved in the brutal killing of Mangala. It is found during investigations that the accused and deceased had past enmity. The victim and the accused persons who used to work in Surat had recently returned home. They had engaged in a heated brawl during Dussehra recently,” a police source said.
Police have seized two heavy blood-stained stones, a knife, blood-stained gamchha and other items from the crime scene. A case (54523) under Sections 302 and 34 of the IPC was filed against the accused, identified as Bayadhar Bhuyan, Papun Bhuyan, Surendra Bhuyan, Jaysen Gouda, and Chandan Gouda, who all hail from the same village.
The accused persons have been produced before a local court that sent them to 14 days judicial custody Friday. In another incident, a 48-year-old person was found in critical condition under mysterious circumstances at Kriamba village in Buguda tehsil of the district late Thursday night. He was rushed to the nearby hospital where the doctors declared him dead.
PNN
