Odisha hand-chopping case: Ninth convict sentenced to 10 years RI

By Express News Service
BHAWANIPATNA: Additional District and Sessions Judge of Dharamgarh Bandana Kar on Monday sentenced a person to bear rigorous imprisonment of 10 years for his alleged involvement in chopping off the palms of two migrant labourers eight years in the past.

The convict Parshuram Nayak (45) of Nuaguda in Kalahandi district was an affiliate of middlemen, who had minimize off the proper palms of the labourers as punishment for his or her attempting to flee in December 2013. Nayak has additionally been ordered to pay a positive of Rs 15,000.

According to the prosecution, Nayak had assisted the middlemen to find two migrant labourers – Deyalu Nial and Nilambar Dhangda Majhi – a part of a 12-member crew from Nuaguda and Pipalguda villages underneath Jaipatna police limits.

The middlemen had supplied them Rs 10,000 every as advance to work in a brick manufacturing unit at Raipur in Chhattisgarh. After arriving at Raipur when the middlemen despatched them to Hyderabad from Raipur in a practice, the labourers sensing bother had de-boarded the practice at completely different stations and returned house.

But Nial and Majhi had been caught by the middlemen and their associates who adopted them upon studying that they had been heading in the direction of their house. They had been then taken to a forest close to Sindhekella within the Balangir district.

Public Prosecutor Thabir Sahu stated the middlemen and their associates first demanded a ransom of Rs 2 lakh every over the cellphone from the relations of the labourers. When the latter expressed their incapability to satisfy the demand, they’d chopped off the labourers’ proper arms from beneath the wrist.

“Altogether nine persons were involved in the gory incident that had grabbed national headlines. While eight middlemen and their associates were arrested, Nayak was absconding. The eight were sentenced to life in 2016 and Nayak was nabbed in the same year,” Sahu stated.

The different accused serving life imprisonment are Parbesh Dundi, Baikuntha Rout, Arjun Bhoi, Gangadhar Das, Bana Majhi, Jaisen Thela, Bimal Rout and Mantu Nial. The State authorities had paid a compensation of Rs 5 lakh every to the victims. 

Unable to bear the agony and trauma, Majhi had died earlier than the pronouncement of the judgement.