The Kendrapada Sadar police registered a case against litu alias Chandra Sekhar Das, district secretary of ruling BJD party, on Tuesday for threatening a widow over mobile phone to withdraw her husband’s murder case from the police station.
According to Sadar police station IIC Nilakantha Prasad Patra, one Mandakini Sahu, the widow of Sridhar Sahu of Haladia village on Tuesday lodged an FIR at Sadar police station alleging that her husband on December 30 last night was kidnapped by a fellow villager lala and another Bana of Kusiapala village with the help of about five of their accomplices. later, they attacked her husband brutally. The victim succumbed to injuries on January 1. Widowed wife Mandakini Sahu, lodged an FIR at the Sadar police station in this regard and the police had registered a case.
However, litu threatened Mandakini to withdraw the FIR or else face dire consequences. Panicked, Mandakini told it to her cousin brother Rakesh Das alias Babuna of Khasapadia. But on January 3, litu allegedly telephoned to Babuna and asked him not to meddle in the matter.
Acting on the FIR of Mandakini, police registered a case against litu and were conducting an inquiry.