Even as the city police are still clueless about the Friday’s bomb attack on an advocate, a firing incident on Monday has put the police in a tizzy and the residents on tenterhooks. With the onset of puja season, the volatile Cuttack city is getting more and more unsafe due to upward trend in criminal activities.
While antisocial elements equipped with lethal weapons like bombs and guns have thrown a challenge to the city police, the citizens are a worried lot getting disenchanted with the puja ambience.
The Monday’s firing incident too has put the city police in a tizzy for they are still clueless about the Friday’s bomb attack even after 72 hours of the incident. But the police are trying to dilute both the incidents attributing previous rivalry to be the motive behind both the incidents.
According to the police, a gangster—Rajesh Pal (25) was left wounded with gunshot injuries after he was allegedly fired at by the members of a rival gang in the busy Jholasahi market under Purighat police station here on Monday morning. Pal, having more than two criminal cases registered against him, is now recuperating in the SCB Medical
College and Hospital here having received a bullet injury.