In a bizarre incident, the city police arrested an 83-year-old man, who apparently opened fire from his licenced pellet gun injuring two other aged persons, including a woman, at Deulasahi under the Bidanasi police station here on Tuesday morning.
Arresting the accused Purna Chandra Mohanty of the locality, the police seized his smoothbore breech loading (SBBl) gun and cartridges. The injured Parvati Das (65), a male, and Subhra Mohanty (60) are now undergoing treatment at the SCB Medical College Hospital here with bleeding injuries, police said.
“An irate Purna Chandra opened fire at around 10 am at Parvati while the latter was having tea at Subhra Mohanty’s tea cafe near a temple in the locality. Both Parvati and Subhra have received multiple injuries in their bodies,” informed city DCP Sanjiv Arora. He said the accused was produced before a local magisterial court. But it was not known till late in the evening whether the court would send the old man to jail.
Police said the old man was nursing a grudge against Parvati, a land broker, over a protracted land dispute leading to litigations in courts for over three decades. While the matter is still pending in the Supreme Court, Purna Chandra apparently got furious and opened fire at Parvati.