A local court on Monday convicted six people in the murder case of a Super Class contractor in 2010. Sambalpur Additional District Judge-1 Ambuja Mohan Das pronounced the verdict.
The judge awarded life term imprisonment to the six persons, including the prime accused Sanjay
Ghosh. However, two accused were acquitted due to want of evidence.
“Anup Babu was brutally murdered in 2010. His body bore multiple injuries. I had prayed the court to pronounce death penalty to the accused. But the court awarded life sentence to six of the accused and imposed a fine of Rs 50,000 each failing which the sentence will be increased by two years. Two others were acquitted due to lack of evidence,” Public Prosecutor Gouramohan Das said.
It may be recalled that unidentified miscreants had hacked Super Class contractor Anup Babu to death on October 7, 2010, here. His body was found behind the Jyoti Bhavan in the Sakhipara area here.
“We are happy with the verdict. My brother Anup Babu was into real estate business. The prime accused used to take lakhs of rupees from him amounting to a total of over Rs 1 crore. Even after my brother got proof, he didn't get money or land back. Sanjay Ghosh murdered him along with his eight associates so that he wouldn’t have to repay the money,” said Anup Babu's brother Swarup Kumar Babu.