Puri: Investigators are probing whether Chittaranjan Palai, a close aide of Deputy Chairperson of Odisha Planning Board and senior BJD leader Sanjay Dasburma, died by drowning, the Puri CDMO said.
The post-mortem report has been sent to the state forensic lab to confirm the reason of death and whether drowning was before or after death, he said, adding that the post-mortem findings have also been handed over to the police station concerned.

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