Collector,& Three Colleagues Booked on Murder charges (!).

Odishabarta,Bureau

MALKANGIRI:The police today registered a murder case against a District Collector and three others in Odisha. Following a directive issued by the Sub-Divisional Judicial Magistrate (SDJM) court, the Malkangiri Police today booked District Collector Manish Agarwal and three others under different sections of the IPC in connection with the death of the Collector’s Personal Assistant Deb Narayan Panda in December last year.

Deb Narayan had gone missing on December 27 last year. A day after his body was recovered from Satiguda reservoir. It was then suspected that Deb Narayan might have committed suicide.

After around six months of the PA’s death, his wife Banaja Panda and family members alleged that Deb Narayan’s death was murdered by the Malkangiri Collector and some of his staff. Even the PA’s family members lodged a written complaint but the police allegedly did not register a case.

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