Notorious gangster Chinmaya alias Papa Panda was nabbed by the Baleswar police from Cuttack on Sunday. Panda had been on the run since 2016.
Papa was the prime accused in the murder case of wanted criminal Sushant Das alias Khasua on June 22, 2016. He was on run from then and was arrested after a series of raids by the police at several suspected hideouts in the State.
Papa along with 25 others was booked under Section 148/16 of IPC by the Sahadevkhunta police after they brutally murdered Khasua.
Notably, Khasua was hacked to death by some assailants near Sobharampur while he was on his way to mediate between groups of two villages under the Sahadevkhunta police station on June 22 evening.
The wife of the deceased Anita Dash ad alleged that Panda was involved in the gruesome killing of her husband.
Sources said, there are several cases pending against Panda in various police stations of the district.