Paradip, Nov 13: In order to take serious action on the merciless murder of Mahendra Swain, the general manager of Seaways Shipping and Logistics Private Limited (SSPL) on October 26 morning, the cops here have constituted five special teams for getting hold of the assailants. The cops have taking this initiative because of the complaint filed by Rajkishore Swain who is the elder brother of Mahendra had filed an FIR against some of the officials of the Odisha Stevedores Ltd (OSL) including the company owner Mahima Mishra, executive director (ED) Basant Bal, manager (operation) Subash Acharya and senior manager Debi Prasad Tripathy for their involvement in the murder. Therefore, the police has started investigation into the incident.
As part of its investigation, the cops had raided Add Annex Nursing Home in the name of Basant Bal near College Square in Cuttack late on Friday night. Prior to this, raids were conducted on the house of the aforesaid OSL officials in Salepur, Mahanga and Basapur near Kendrapara town.Talking to media persons, Additional Superintendent of Police (ASP), Paradip, Gadadhar Pradhani informed. He also said that police is in the process of collecting detailed information about the whereabouts of OSL executive director, the role of manager (operation) and the works assigned to the senior manager. On November 10, police had seized the OSL bank accounts in Bank of India as well as the personal accounts of Bal, Tripathy and Acharya.
