Bhubaneswar: A court in Bhubaneswar on Thursday acquitted six persons who were accused in the sensational murder of Jharpada Special Jail warder Manas Ranjan Nayak in the city in 2009.
Pronouncing the verdict in the case, the court of the Additional District and Sessions Judge acquitted Bikram Mallick, Mihirkant Tripathy, Shivram Sahu, N Venkat Rao Dora, Kanhu Charan Mishra and Debashish Bhoi due to lack of adequate evidence against them.
Notably, eight persons had been booked in connection with the murder of Nayak in front of Jharpada Special Jail in Bhubaneswar on November 1, 2009. Two of them had died while facing the trial in the sensational case.
The court pronounced its verdict after examining 36 witnesses, 72 documents and other evidence gathered by the police.
As per the case records, Nayak was shot dead by some miscreants in front of the jail in the evening hours of November 1, 2009.
Police had launched a thorough probe into the murder and arrested the accused persons.