The city police late on Monday night captured an antisocial after injuring him in an encounter.
City DCP Akhileswar Singh on Tuesday said the 30-year-old criminal is now undergoing treatment at the SCB Medical College Hospital here with a bullet-injury in his left leg.
The DCP said the Malgodown police had received information that the wanted criminal Manoj Kumar Swain alias Manua of Erasama in Jagatsinghpur district was hiding near a water tank on the bank of Mahanadi andwas also in possession of some crude bombs.
"However, a police party headed by IIC of Malgodown police station RN Bhanja approached the spot very carefully. But Manua seeing the police hurled a bomb at them in which three policemen, including the IIC, were injured," Singh disclosed.
He further added that when Manua tried to hurl another bomb, the IIC opened a controlled fire from his revolver. Manua sustained a bullet injury in his left leg. Sources said Manua was wanted in as many as six criminal cases pending against him.
