Bhubaneswar, Mar 18: A local court here today convicted the accused involved in the murder of entrepreneur Bachan Sudha Pattanayk in September 2013.

The court today sentenced the accused Dipti Ranjan Patnaik to life imprisonment. Bachan Sudha was found murdered in her residence at Sabar Sahi in Rasulgarh on September 11, 2013.

Subsequently police had arrested Dipti, who used to work as a security guard at the house of the deceased. Police had claimed that loot was the motive behind the crime.