Puri Mar 21: The sensational murder of Srimandir servitor Krushna Ch. Pratihari, was out of vendetta and 2 key conspirators have been arrested including 6. The Puri SP has informed this in a pressure here, as the investigation on this murder case is still going on and more arrests will soon be done, he said.
At a presser, SP Kanwar Vishal Singh said besides main conspirators Kalia Singhari and Dolagobinda Singhari, four others have been arrested in connection with the incident. They are Kalu Panigrahi, Muna Patra, Sandeep Jena and Baba Mohapatra. All the accused will be produced before court today. The cops will appeal the court to take all the arrested accused on remand for interrogation and murder scene recreation.
The six were nabbed in separate raids done by several teams at different places in Puri, Ganjam, Balasore and Bhadrak distrct added Puri SP.
The SP further informed that the Father-son duo, Kalia and Dolagobinda Singhari had hired Kalu Panigrahi to plan and execute the entire crime while Muna Patra had supplied weapons.
Prima facie, it is suspected that Krushna Chandra Pratihari was shot dead out of vendetta. In fact, the accused persons had earlier made an attempt to kill the senior servitor. Further raids are underway at various places to nab three other accused, the senior cop added.
On March 16 morning, Pratihari was shot at point-blank range by miscreants near Barabati area in Puri. The servitor was rushed to the hospital where he was declared dead.
It is pertinent to mention here that Pratihari, Secretary of Suar Mahasuar Nijog of Srimandir, was earlier acquitted along with five others in the murder case of former BJD councillor and servitor Taluchha Bhagaban Mohapatra alias Guna Singhari. The murder of Guna Singhari was carried out the same way here in August, 2012.
