BHUBANESWAR: The irate villagers
ransacked a foreign liquor shop at Brahman Sarangi square under Balianta police
station in the city on Friday after the death of an elderly man under
suspicious circumstances.
The deceased was identified as
Ravindra Sahu (55), a roadside vendor staying at Raiadapada village on the
outskirts of the city. On Thursday evening, he was called by two persons
Arakhita Pradhan (50) and Kotari Guru (45) to go to the liquor shop. Sahu went
with them and didn’t return home in the night.
On Friday morning, the villagers
found the body of Sahu near the wine shop. When they saw the body having many
injured marks, the angry villagers came in a group and set ablaze the shop. The
villagers said the alcoholic persons and the wine shop staff were involved in
the murder of Sahu. Crime was increasing in the area due to the liquor shop.
Family members of Sahu alleged that
he was murdered by anti-socials coming to the liquor shop every day.
The villagers blocked
Vingarpur-Balipatna road keeping the body of the deceased and demanded
compensation for victim’s family. The body was sent to the Capital Hospital for
post mortem. The police are investigating into the matter.
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