By Biswanath Dash
BHUBANESWAR: Today on Tuesday, there was prize catch for city police with Police Commissioner S Priyadarshi and DCP Prateek Singh have reasons to rejoice after the arrest of Notorious Criminal Manoj Behera accused in 15 Cases. Behera was arrested at Jagannath Nagar locality under Laxmi Sagar police limits of Capital City.
The team comprising personnel from special squad and Laxmisagar police station seized a country-made semi-automatic pistol, two magazines and nine live bullets (7.65mm) from Manoj’s possession.
Behera, is also a key accused in Laxmisagar petrol pump firing incident that occurred on March 28, 2022 and has been active in criminal syndicate since 2015-16.
Manoj , son of Sura Behera, is a native of Gandhi Nagar under Burla civic limits in Sambalpur district. Presently, he has been residing at Rickshaw Colony under Kharvel Nagar police limits. There are at least 15 murder, snatching, burglary, black marketing tickets and gun attack cases pending against him at different police stations. Dozen over cases have been pending against him at Kharvel Nagar police limits, besides, rest with Balianta Police limits, Polasara and Jagannatha Prasad Police Stations of Ganjam.
