Jajpur: Police on Monday arrested one more person in connection with the alleged murder of a a contractual worker of the Neelachal Ispat Nigam Ltd (NINL), who body was found buried on the plant premises in Odisha’s Kalinga Nagar.
This came a day after the arrest of Tarini Prasad Mohanty, Jagdish Mohanta, Padmalochan Mohanta and Alok Patra, contractual workers and employed at the plant by a vendor Satyam Enterprises. The fifth arrestee has been identified as Manas.
Silu Pradhan (22) was allegedly killed by his coworkers following rift over sharing booty from theft of oil from the plant on October 30. They buried his body by digging a pit near the batching unit of the NINL plant the same night. His naked body with his hands and legs tied with a rope was retrieved by police on Friday night following a missing complaint from his family members.
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A resident of Kulunigoda village within Gondia police limits of Dhenkanal district, Silu worked as a machine helper in the batching unit of the plant.