Four accused have been arrested in connection with the murder of Mahanga BJP leader Kulamani Baral and his associate Dibyasingh Baral. The four are being interrogated by police at an undisclosed location. The arrested accused were identified as Panchanan Sethi, Aravind Khuntia, Khitish Acharya and Lalit Baral.
The Cuttack Rural police had formed five teams to apprehend the accused. The teams on Monday night carried out raids at various places in the Mahanga area and arrested the four. Efforts are on by the police to nab the other accused persons.
Notably, Kulamani’s son Ramakant Baral has filed an FIR with the Mahanga police accusing Mahanga MLA and Minister Pratap Jena and 12 others for the killing.
Ramakant has alleged that his father had told him that Pratap Jena threatened to kill both. “The Minister is fully responsible for the murder of my father.