The condition of yesteryears’ Odia film actor Shantiswarup Mishra is stated to be improving and out of danger after surgeons at the SCB Medical College Hospital here removed a bullet from his body on Friday. Yet another bullet is still lodged in his body and he is kept under observation, hospital sources said.
The 60-year-old Mishra was fired at from close range by an unidentified person on Thursday evening while he was having tea in his house in Sambalpur city with one of his friends Nityasundar Patnaik, who also received bullet injuries and is hospitalised too.
Reports reaching here from Sambalpur said a youth barged into the drawing room of Mishra around 8.30 pm and suddenly opened fire at him. When Patnaik tried to intervene, the assailant turned his weapon at him and fired a shot before escaping from the spot.
Mishra was immediately rushed to a local hospital, where doctors referred him to the Cuttack hospital as his condition was deteriorating fast. Preliminary police investigations pointed towards a property dispute to be the motive behind the firing.