In connection with murder of a helper of a cattle-laden container, the Khantapara police arrested seven people.
They were identified as Jogeswar Sahu, Abdul Sultan Khan, Arabinda Mahalik, Ramakanta Das, Bhuleswar Sahu, Nirmalya Behera and Khitish Chandra Rout. Sk Sahrukh was stoned to death by these accused when the cattle laden container was heading from Bhadrak towards Bengal near Sergarh after they intercepted the vehicle there on Thursday morning.
According to police, these goons in the name of cow savers used to stop the cattle vehicles and extort money at different points on the NH. And on that day, they had demanded money from the cattle laden vehicle driver and helper and when they didn’t get money there was an
altercation which led to the incident. Critically, wounded Saharukh had died on the way to hospital. As the news spread a scuffle took place between the supporters of Saharukh and the cow savers and Kapileswar Rout belonging to the latter group was injured.