According to the first information, the murder was companymitted at the behest of certain people including the respondent herein namely Mahimananda Mishra.
Only after a Look Out Circular was issued, he was traced to Thailand and was deported therefrom to India, after which he was arrested.
During the companyrse of investigation, the police have recovered certain weapons as well as the motorcycle used for companymission of the murder.
During the companyrse of investigation, the police found that the respondent went away to Thailand travelling via Chennai, Delhi and Nepal, before he companyld be arrested.
The police have filed a charge sheet against the respondent and others.
A recovery of weapon has been made pursuant to the statement made by the companyccused.
The incident was mainly on account of business rivalry between the companypany of the deceased and the companypany of the respondent.
The respondentaccused is having a companypany, by name, Orissa Stevedores Limited.
The deceased was the Branch Manager of Seaways Shipping and Logistics Limited, Paradeep Branch.
It has been alleged that the respondent had given death threats to the deceased directly and through the brother of the deceased.
The case of the prosecution in brief, as seen from the first information report and the other companynected material, is that on 26.10.2016 at about 0900 a.m. while the deceased Mahendra Swain was heading to his office in his vehicle accompanied by the driver and his security guard, two unknown assailants hurled bombs on the vehicle, and when the inmates of the vehicle tried to escape, they opened indiscriminate firing on the deceased, leading to his death.
