Constable From Odisha On Poll Duty Dies In Tamil Nadu’s Trichy

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Bhubaneswar: Constable Pramod Kumar Majhi of fifth Indian Reserve Battalion, Boudh, died while on election duty in Tamil Nadu’s Trichy.

According to police sources, 30 companies of Odisha Police are in Tamil Nadu for bandobust duty and they  have been put up at a private college along Tiruchi – Chennai national highway at Perambalur. The 38-year-old sustained severe head injury after being knocked down by a two-wheeler at Thaneerpandal on April 4. He was rushed to Mahatma Gandhi Government General Hospital at Tiruchi. but succumbed to his injuries on Sunday night.

A native of Dharmabandha village in Nuapada district, Majhi had joined Odisha Police in 2009.

After autopsy, the mortal remains of the constable was sent to Chennai and from thereon to Odisha by flight, the sources added.

Odisha DGP Arun Kumar Sarangi along with other senior officers have mourned his death.