October 16
Commissionerate Police arrested three friends of deceased Manish Anurag Das. The three arrested persons are Amrit Ketan Biswal, Dinesh Kumar Mohapatra and Mrutyunjay Mishra.
They were arrested on charges of murder and destroying evidence, Bhubaneswar DCP Umashankar Dash said.
Commissionerate Police informed, Manish had met Amrit, Dinesh and Mrutyunjay at around 5.30 PM at Info city area. Manish with three visited a restaurant at Laxmisagar area and from there, they went to a hotel at Patrapada.
As said by Comissionerate Police, they had altercation over payment of bill inside the hotel. Further, it continued even outside the hotel following which they attacked Manish killing him in the process.
After he collapsed, the three accused persons dumped the body in a pond at the locality to destroy the evidence, Police said.
The body of Manish was found floating in a pond at Patrapada village under Tomando Police Station on October 10 afternoon.
There was no external injury marks on the body of Manish. Police is yet to receive the Mobile Phone of Manish.
The preliminary results of post-mortem revealed that Manish had died due to respiratory arrest.
As said by DCP, Police will pray before the court to take three accused persons on remand for further questioning’.
Also, Police is also waiting for final report of Post-Mortem report.
