Police takes cognisance of incident suo motu
In another incident of post-election violence in Brahmapur, a band of unidentified miscreants came by a motorbike and hurled country-made bombs in front of the residence of Brahmapur BJD MlA Ramesh Chandra Chyau Pattnaik at Bhavanagar here late night on Monday before escaping unnoticed.
Being informed, the Badynathpur police reached the spot and seized portions of the bombs and started investigation. A police force has been deployed in front of the MlA’s residence to prevent any further untoward incident.
On Tuesday, Dr Pattnaik met Brahmapur SP Anirudh Singh and discussed the incident with him, mentioning possible further security threats, sources said.
According to reports, immediately after Pattnaik had gone to sleep at about 12 midnight on Monday, he heard a huge sound. a youth who also lives in the MlA’s house came outside and saw the smoke and informed Dr Pattnaik about the incident.
Pattnaik came outside the house and informed IIC of local Brahmapur police station, Ajay Mishra about the incident. During interrogations of the eyewitnesses and the local people, the police came to know that three youths came by a motorbike and hurled the bombs and immediately left the spot.
Brahmapur SP Singh also visited the spot and examined the incident from all possible angles. Police has started the investigation.
Ironically, Pattnaik did not lodge any written complaint to the police about the incident, sources said. The police, however, suo motu took cognizance of the matter, registered a case and started investigation. Dr Pattnaik, on the other hand, said he has neither any personal or political enemy; hence he doubts none.
In another shocking incident, the Government Railway Police (GRP) recovered the unidentified headless dead body of a youth at early morning on Tuesday in front of the famous Jhammi Temple of the Ankuli industrial area at the backside of the RDC office on the outskirts of the city.
The police recovered a Brahmapur-Bhubaneswar train passenger ticket from the pocket of the dead body, the identity of whom is yet to be ascertained. The police sent the dead body to the local medical college hospital for autopsy and registered a case and started investigation.
In yet another incident, the Brahmapur police arrested a criminal, Chiku Pattnaik, a resident of Golapalli Badhei street who was reportedly involved with the incident of the deadly attack with sharp weapons on Tuna Behera, a businessman and resident of Gollapalli first line on the night of April 22. The police forwarded the accused to court on Monday.
On April 22 at 11 pm while Tuna Behera after closing his shop as usual was returning home, Chiku Pattnaik, who was reportedly hiding near Tinikonia Chhak, attacked him leaving him seriously injured in his head and legs. Pattnaik had been absconding since the incident.