Nayagah, April 26: A man has been awarded death penalty on the charges of double murder in Odisha’s Nayagarh district on Friday.
The accused has been identified as Niranjan Mallik, a resident of Kushdhipi village under Odgaon police station.
As on records, Niranjan had killed two persons in Odgaon and injured three others on January 17, 2019. He had attacked a security guard Lochan Sethi all of a sudden who was on duty at Odgaon Market. He had hacked the watchman with the help of a wooden stick. A few minutes later he killed a woman identified as Badni Pradhan near Odgaon cinema hall, barging into her house.
Based on the prima facie & deposition of the witnesses and police, the Additional District Sessions Judge, Nayagarh pronounced the order and convicted the accused awarding death penalty.
