Police have arrested four more persons, including a woman, in connection with the murder of notorious antisocial Sanjay Behera alias Para on December 25 last.
The arrestees have been identified as dreaded criminal Bhagirathi Pradhan alias Bhagu, Pramod Bhola, Ranjan Rout and wife of prime accused Denga Muna. Two pistols used in the crime were also seized from the possession of the accused.
“Earlier Tapas Samantaray, Babuni Parida alias Kuna, Denga Muna and Jitendra Sahoo were arrested. Today we have nabbed four more persons in the firing case taking the number of arrests to eight so far,” said city DSP, Prashant Pattnaik.
Earlier on December 25, Para was critically injured after four miscreants chased and fired three rounds of bullets at him near Nakachana gate of the Gundicha Temple here.
He died while undergoing treatment at a hospital in Bhubaneswar on December 26.