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The Times of India
The Times of India
National
Debabrata Mohapatra | TNN

Odisha: Puri police arrests six for 'revenge killing' of Jagannath temple servitor

BHUBANESWAR: A decade-old grudge over the 2012 killing of Guna Singhari, a servitor of the Puri Jagannath temple and a former BJD councillor, triggered the revenge murder of servitor Krushna Chandra Pratihari in the pilgrim town on March 16, said police after arresting six persons in this connection on Monday.

Guna Singhari’s brother, Kalia Singhari alias Taluchha Nityananda Mohapatra (58), and nephew, Dolagobinda Singhari alias Taluchha Asish Mohapatra (26), are among the six arrested. The other four have been identified by the police as Baba Mahapatra (37), Kalu alias Satyanarayan Panigrahi (32), Rashmiranjan Patra (33) and Sandip Jena (34). All of them belong to Puri.

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