17 persons have been sentenced to life imprisonment in a case relating to attack on a police team killing an Assistant Sub Inspector in Sundargarh district in Odisha, in 2012 . All the convicts are residents of Dudukabahal village of the district.
While announcing the punishment yesterday, Sundargarh Additional District Judge also ordered all the convicts to pay a penalty of 10 thousand rupees failing which they will undergo another two years of imprisonment. On August 11, 2012, a police team including ASI Nabin Patel, had gone to Dudukabahal village to arrest a person. In no time, a mob gathered at the place who opposed the arrest, attacked the policemen leaving the Officer In-charge of Lanjiberna police outpost dead and another policeman critically injured.