The Titilagarh Additional District Judge Court, after hearing the sensational case of murder of BJD leader Abhimanyu Sahu, on Friday sentenced four accused persons to life imprisonment.
The main accused Alok Das was sentenced to life imprisonment plus an additional five years’ jail term.
The court announcing the verdict held the four accused Alok, Santosh Rana, Jagdish Bagh and Naresh Singh guilty basing on the investigation and evidences submitted by the prosecution.
BJD leader Sahu had been killed by unidentified miscreants while he was on a morning walk on December 15, 2013. On the fateful day, Alok and three of his accomplices followed Sahu in an Ambassador car and a bike. The assailants had initially tried to kill Sahu by running him over by the car and later hacked him to death after finding him alive. later, they hid the chopper with blood stains near a dhaba.
The State Crime Branch was investigating the murder case after the Government had ordered for a Crime Branch probe following protests in Titilagarh. The motive behind the murder was business as well as personal rivalry.
Meanwhile, the deceased’s wife MlA Tukuni Sahu, while thanking the CB team for arresting the accused and getting them convicted, requested them to make more effort and nab the main conspirator behind her husband’s murder.