A case has come to the fore recently under the Rajnagar police limits, where villagers buried a body in front of the house of a fellow villager to settle a score against the victim on Wednesday.
According to Rajnagar police station IIC Sitakantha Kanungo, some labourers led by one Biranchi Mallick were engaged to instal an electric pole by digging a hole to provide electricity supply to the house of one Swarnalata Sahu of Naukona village. However, the electric pole fell on the head of a fellow villager, Manguli Padihary, while it was being installed and he died on the spot.
The incident triggered tension in the village. later, Mallick, who was entrusted with the task to instal the electric pole, fled the spot. After that some fellow villagers demanded compensation for the deceased’s kin from Sahu. As she failed to provide the compensation amount, the villagers on Wednesday night buried Mallick’s body after it was received from hospital in front of the Sahu’s house.
When Sahu opposed the villagers, the villagers allegedly ransacked her house and even attempted to kill her. later, Sahu lodged an FIR at the Rajnagar police station on Thursday.
On Friday, the Rajnagar police with the help of local Executive Magistrate Khirod Behera rushed to the village and directed the villagers to exhume the body and bury it in the burial ground what the villagers obliged, informed the IIC.