A city court on Monday sentenced two accused persons for involvement in the murder of a servitor of lingaraj Temple, Kasinath alias Kunu Badu, to life imprisonment.
The convicted duo was identified as Kunia Mohapatra and Akshaya Mohapatra.
Sources said Kunu was brutally hacked to death by a rival servitor group on August 9, 2010 over a feud on allotment of assignments by the temple trust.
During investigation, police ascertained that there was a tussle between servitors of Brahman Nijog and Badu Nijog. Kunu along with a few other servitors of Badu Nijog had a clash with the servitors of Brahman Nijog on the evening of August 07, 2010 and Kunu’s murder was fallout of that clash. Notably, on August 9, 2010, Kunu’s body was found near Kotitirtha temple in Old Town area.