Four held for murder of NINL contractual worker in Odisha

JAJPUR: Two days after the decomposed body of a contractual worker of the Neelachal Ispat Nigam Ltd (NINL) plant in Kalinga Nagar was found buried on the plant premises, police on Sunday arrested four of his coworkers for allegedly murdering him following rift over sharing booty.

The murder was the fallout of the victim seeking his share in proceeds from theft of oil from the plant.

The accused – Tarini Prasad Mohanty, Jagdish Mohanta, Padmalochan Mohanta and Alok Patra too are contractual workers and employed at the plant by a vendor Satyam Enterprises. They worked along with the victim Silu Pradhan at the plant. Police said the accused and the victim shared the booty from theft of oil that had been going on at the steel plant for quite some time.

“Everything was going well as the booty was being equally distributed among all of them. The problem arose when Silu who was absent from the plant for around three weeks joined duty on October 30 and demanded his share of income from the oil theft. A tussle arose among Silu and the accused following which the latter killed him,” said Kalinga Nagar IIC Prakash Chandra Sahoo.