Puri, June11: While the Grand Road & Srimandir campus in Puri was floating with ocean of crowd for the Snana Purnima Rituals in the Shri Jagannath Temple on Wednesday, an elderly servitor’s body was recovered from a pool of blood in the shrine city.
The deceased has been identified as Jagannath Dikshit, a Mahasuara Sevak of the deities.
Dikshit (Aprox 80 years) was allegedly at his residence Rabeni Chaura area in Gudia Sahi in the noon.
According to sources, Dikshit had reportedly visited one Narayan Pattajoshi’s house. Meanwhile, unidentified miscreants killed him with sharp weapons.
On being informed, local police rushed to the spot and seized the body. After inquest, it was sent for postmortem.
The precise motive behind the murder is yet to be ascertained. However, a past enmity is suspected as the reason behind eliminating the octogenarian person.
