Bhubaneswar, Jan. 10: The commissionerate police today arrested three anti-socials who had resorted to blank firing at a realtor’s house on December 28 last year.
The anti-socials were arrested from Jharsuguda by a special squad of police. The police have also seized two pistols and 6 rounds of cartridges from them.
The prime accused has been identified as Bijay Kumar Jena (32), a resident of Pattamundai area in Kendrapara district. His two accomplices have been identified as Rajesh Kumar Singh (28) a resident of Rourkela and Srikant sahani (30) who hails from Kendrapara district.
Following the complaint from realtor Ramesh Sahoo, the Baragada police had registered a case against the accused under Sections 307 (attempt to murder) and 34 (acts done by several persons in furtherance of common intention) of the Indian Penal Code and Sections 25 and 27 of the Arms Act. The police had been searching for the accused ever since the complaint was lodged by the builder.
Police said that the anti-socials, after firing in the air at realtor Ramesh Sahoo’s house in BJB Nagar, had fled the spot. They had resorted to blank firing to terrorise Sahoo. “We had to make a lot of efforts to nab the ant-socials as they had fled the spot,” said deputy commissioner of police Himanshu Lal.
The accused persons had several cases registered against them in Bolangir, Brajaraj nagar, Rourkela, Tumudubandha and Baliguda. Police said that accused Bjay Jena was involved in the case of firing at a councillor in Rourkela last year. Sources said the firing in BJB Nagar area was their first crime in the capital.
The realtor, Ramesh Sahoo, had alleged that on December 28, accused Bijay Jena and two other anti-socials had fired in the air at his house when he was not at home. The accused had threatened his wife and daughter with dire consequences if Sahoo did not return the money he had taken from another realtor.
Sources said that Sahoo had taken money from another realtor based in Angul to provide him land at Gadiapokhari area on the outskirts of the city. Sahoo had given the money to the landowners but after sometime the Angul based realtor wanted his money back, which Sahu could not pay.
