BHUBANESWAR: A court in Bhadrak on Sunday allowed the state crime branch to extend the custodial remand period of web channel editor, Sarmistha Rout, and her associate, Jhuna Bhoi, to three more days for further interrogation in connection with the abduction and murder of cameraman Manas Swain.
Rout and Bhoi, along with two more accused, former Odisha information service officer Niranjan Sethy and Ranjan Nayak, were produced before the court of the judicial magistrate first class (JMFC) at Chandbali in Bhadrak on the completion of their five-day remand on Sunday.
