In a broad daylight crime on Sunday, Aswajit Sahu (30) alias lulu of Kusunpur village under Marshaghai police station was shot dead by some of his gang members in front of Taratarini hotel at Kusunupur by the Paradip-Daitary Express Way, said Kendrapada SDPO Nrushingha Swain.
According to Swain, at about 4 pm, five youths, belonging to Bhusaranga, Tikhiri and Paradip area, who are the associates of mobster Babu Sahu, allegedly came to Taratarini hotel and dinned with Aswajit. later, they came out of the eatery for smoking cigarette, where an altercation erupted between Aswajit and the five youths, resulting in the firing. The youths fired nearly six rounds of bullets at Aswajit leading to his death on the spot. Four rounds of bullets pierced into his body and head. After the shoot-out, the miscreants fled the spot.
Being informed, police rushed to the spot and seized the body and sent it to the District headquarters hospital at Kendrapada for autopsy. The police also seized six remnants of the fired bullets from the spot, apart from two motorbikes, the SDPO said. The police also detained a person and are conducting raids in different hideouts to nab the accused.