Punjilal Meher, the accused in Patnagarh parcel bomb blast case, was released from jail on parole on Sunday to perform last rites of his mother at his native place in Balangir district.
He walked out of the Balangir jail amidst security a day after a local court granted him one-day parole after his mother’s death. He was then taken to Patnagarh.
Later, he was taken back to the jail after he lit the funeral pyre of his mother.
Punjilal’s mother Indumati Meher died on Friday morning. The family had been waiting for Punjilal to perform her last rites.
Notably, Punjilal, who was a Lecturer at the Jyoti Vikash Junior College, Patnagarh, was arrested by the Crime Branch police on April 25, 2018 in the parcel bomb blast case in which two persons, including a newlywed youth, were killed at their home.
Police alleged that the plot was carried out minutely by Punjilal, who had been replaced by the deceased youth’s mother as Principal of the college, to eliminate her.
