Notorious criminal Sanjay Behera alias Para, involved in as many as 15 criminal cases, was nabbed by police after being injured in an encounter at Biragobindpur here on Monday morning.
On a tipoff about Para’s presence on the Cuttack-Puri National Highway, a special squad of police comprising personnel from the Sadar and Sea Beach police stations conducted a raid and intercepted him.
But spotting the police he fired to escape from the spot. In the retaliatory firing by the police he was hit by a bullet on his leg.
Police said Para was rushed initially to the Satyabadi Community Health Centre (CHC and then shifted to SCB Medical College Hospital in Cuttack after his condition deteriorated.
Para was wanted for his alleged involvement in the firing on one Bhagu Pradhan in the town on April 11, 2017, police said.