The Golanthara police arrested a priest, who is alleged to have stolen a pair of Ghantad (cymbals) from the village temple, and forwarded him to court here on Wednesday. The accused is Shankar Prasad Mahapatra of village Padmapur.
When Mahapatra was carrying two Ghantas on Tuesday night reportedly to sell them in the market, the police caught him red-handed and seized the Ghantas from him. The villagers condemned such immoral conduct on the part of the priest whom they trusted so much. In another incident, Arun Kumar Panda of village Dengapadar lodged a complaint at the Sadar police station here on Wednesday alleging that when his family was sleeping at previous night, a miscreant broke the backyard door and snatched the gold chain of 20 gram from his mother’s neck and fled.
For illegal sale of liquor, the Golanthara police arrested a person and forwarded him to court here on Wednesday. Accused Debendra Behera, a resident of Sorala, was carrying 10 bottles of foreign liquor on Tuesday night. Similarly, the Chhatrapur police arrested Bideshi Nayak of Sundarpur and seized six liters of foreign liquor from him. Bideshi was reportedly involved in an illegal liquor sale racket.
In yet another incident, miscreants made a brutal attack with deadly weapons on ladu Pradhan of Keranditola under the Chamakhandi police station on Tuesday night in which ladu sustained serious injuries. He has been admitted to the MKCG Medical College Hospital.