Judo coach Biranchi Das murder convict Sandeep (Raja) Acharya went on parole to attend his mother’s first death anniversary on Wednesday after the Orissa High Court accepted his plea for the purpose. Acharya was directed to depose before the police on April 21.
He had also gone on parole of three weeks at the time of the death of his mother last year.
He is serving a life term at the Jharpada Special Jail here since 2010 when a Bhubaneswar Fast Track Court convicted him for killing Das in April 2008 and sentenced him to life. Notably, the judo coach was shot dead in Bhubaneswar on April 13, 2008 at his judo training centre premises here by two unidentified armed men. later Acharya’s associate Chagala had confessed to the crime in April 2008 whereas Acharya surrendered before the Goa police in Panaji on May 5, 2008.