The District and Sessions Judge, Sundargarh,
sentenced two persons to life imprisonment and imposed a fine of Rs
2,000 on each of them for killing a youth three years ago.
On April 22, 2019, Kinjrikela police of Sundargah district had recovered
a body of a youth from Dandapani road. The body was identified as
Tekchand Badaik (28), a resident of Halma village. There were no injury
marks on the body and only police found bleeding from the nose.
The police had registered an unnatural death case and had started
investigating the case. However, the post mortem report on May 10,
2019 confirmed it to be a murder case.
Police on May 11, 2019 had arrested Subash Amat(28) and Radha
Madhav Bhitria (30), residents of Halma village in the case.
Pronouncing the judgment, Judge Priyadarshi Patnaik on Saturday
examined as many as 15 witnesses and held Subash and Radha Madhav
guilty under section 302 IPC for killing Tekchand. Public Prosecutor
Abdul Samim Akthar was present during the hearing of the case.