Police on Saturday arrested a youth on the charge of stabbing to death a teacher in Hatidihi block of Keonjhar district in November.
The accused was identified as Arup, a former student of the deceased Anirudh Swain, a Mathematics teacher at the Dhenka High School.
Arup was arrested by the Nandipada police from Kaniari village of Dhenka panchayat under the Soso police station in the district.
Sources, Arup had a heated altercation with Anirudh at the latter’s house. However, losing his cool, Arup stabbed Anirudh with a knife and then bludgeoned the teacher with a stone. Anirudh died on the spot in the attack.
Arup then fled from the spot with Anirudh’s two-wheeler. Two weeks later, Fire Services personnel recovered the body of Anirudh from a canal.
Police reached the spot and seized the vehicle and weapons used in the crime which the accused had abandoned there. The cops got a steel bangle of the accused during investigations. With the help of the bangle and other evidences they managed to nab Arup.
Anandpur SDPO Prasant Kumar Behera said the accused was arrested and forwarded to court under the relevant Sections of IPC.