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Senior advocator and BJP person Pitabash Panda was changeable dormant by unidentified men adjacent his residence successful Odisha's Berhampur connected Monday (October 6, 2025) night, constabulary said.
The incidental took spot successful the town's Brahma Nagar area.
Panda, who was besides a subordinate of the Odisha State Bar Council, was antecedently associated with the Congress.
According to police, 2 bike-borne men allegedly fired astatine him from a adjacent scope portion helium was lasting connected a roadside. He was taken to MKCG Medical College and Hospital wherever doctors declared him dead.
Police said the motive down the onslaught is inactive nether investigation.
State’s Commerce and Transport Minister Bibhuti Bhusan Jena, who on with respective BJP leaders rushed to the aesculapian assemblage and infirmary aft proceeding astir the attack, condemned the incident.
