The Marshaghai police have arrested a youth for his alleged involvement in slicing the neck of a fast food stall owner with a blade at Juna Chowk. The shop keeper was admitted to the District Headquarters Hospital and later shifted to the SCB Medical College Hospital in Cuttack in a critical condition.
According to police sources, the Manoranjan Behera, with six others associates, went to the Juna-based fast food stall and asked its owner Prakash Behera to provide them food. When Prakash denied, Manoranjan attacked him. The mother of the victim lodged an FIR. Meanwhile, a search was on by police to nab other accused.
The accused persons had also created nuisance at Juna Chowk on Monday evening while a melody programme was going on. When president of the Juna Chowk Lakshmi Puja Committee Bhagabat Behera attempted to restrain them, they assaulted him and looted his gold chain and ring. Behera later lodged an FIR in the police station.