Two incidents of crimes that took place on Sunday evening rocked north Baleswar. While in one incident, unidentified miscreants shot at a young trader at Tarini Temple Chhak under Baliapala block, in another incident, a 48- year- old man was found dead in his village with stabbing injuries.
The deceased was identified as Bibhutibhusan Jena of village Khuluda under Jaleswar police limits, the victim which survived bullet attack was identified as Soumyadeep Chakravorty.
In neither of the cases, police have nabbed the culprits.
According to sources, Bibhutibhusan’s body was found near Gajiani on the road between Jaleswar – Paschimbad .
His body was spotted by the pedestrians on the road. Besides stabbing injuries in his stomach, his throat was slit, suggesting that he was killed with a sharp weapon.
The police have seized a mobile phone near the body and begun investigation to ascertain the reason of murder.
In the shootout case took place at around 5 pm while victim Soumyadeep was in front of his shop.
Two bike-borne miscreants approached him and shot one round of bullet which struck his back, before fleeing away. Soumyadeep, who bled profusely in the attack somehow managed to take a lift from a passer-by biker and reached a nearby hospital riding pillion. He was later shifted to the Baleswar District Headquarters Hospital.
While the cause behind the attack is not known, a past enmity mainly due to sand quarrying and lifting from the Subarnarekha river bed is suspected. However, the police have not clarified the cause yet.