Tangi: A man died and another was critically injured in an attack by unidentified miscreants at Jaripada panchayat within Tangi police station limits on Sunday.
According to sources, police suspect the murderous attack on the duo was a fallout of a suspected dispute over sand mining from the Birupa river bed in the Tangi-Choudwar tehsil area.
The deceased man has been identified as Bhusan Mohanty alias Happy, a native of Balichandrapur, who was living with his family in his uncle’s house at Jaripada.
On Sunday afternoon, Happy and his aide were sitting in a sweet shop on Gobindpur road, on the side of National Highway 16. Suddenly, some young men arrived in an SUV and attacked the duo with sharp weapons.
Happy sustained fatal injuries in the attack and died while being taken to the hospital while his critically injured accomplice is undergoing treatment at the Cuttack SCB MCH.
IIC Suchitravirya Das has informed that the Tangi police have launched an investigation into the incident as the situation is very tense in the locality over the murder.
According to sources, some mafia had previous enmity with the deceased Happy over the lifting of sand from the ghat. It has been found that while Happy has previous criminal records, other criminal groups are suspected to have involvement in his murder.
