The Marshaghai police on Wednesday arrested two persons in connection with a firing case in which a Cesu company driver was seriously injured at the Banamali Chowk in Kendrapada district on Saturday night.
However, the three miscreants, who fired bullets at the driver, are yet to be identified.The two arrested, Manas Mallick (25) and Niranjan Beherea (26) of Marshaghai village, had allegedly hatched the plan with gangster litu, said Marshaghai IIC Sukanta Kumar Patra.litu had allegedly demanded extortion money of Rs 2 lakh from one Babu, a contractor of Silipur.As Babu did not pay the money, litu along with the two arrested hatched a plan to eliminate Babu.
They engaged three outsiders to conduct their plan, said the IIC. Accordingly, the three went to a poultry Babu’s poultry firm located near Banamali Chowk. One Bhaskar Chandra Jena, a Cesu driver, told them that Babu was there.The miscreants then asked him to call Bahu over phone. As Bhaskar denied having Babu’s number, the miscreants fired three rounds of bullets at him in a fit of rage and fled from the spot.
Bhaskar was undergoing treatment at the SCB Medical College Hospital, Cuttack.The two were produced before the SDJM court, Kendrapada and remanded into jail custody as their bail pleas were rejected, informed Patra.