Punjilal Meher, the sole accused in the sensational wedding gift blast case in Patnagarh in Balangir district, was on Saturday granted parole for one day by the Patnagarh SDJM Court for his mother’s cremation.
Police would escort him from the jail to the cremation ground. Earlier, Punjilal had sought parole for the court to perform last rites of his mother Indumati, who died on Friday.
Punjilal’s father Jayakrushna Meher had said on Saturday, “My wife was suffering from cancer. Her last rites will take place after Punjilal, who is lodged at the Balangir jail, arrives here.”
Notably, Punjilal, a Lecturer at the Jyoti Vikash Junior College, Patnagarh, was arrested by the Crime Branch police on April 25, 2018 in the parcel bomb blast case in which two persons, including a newlywed youth, were killed at their home. Police alleged that the plot was carried out by Punjilal, who had been replaced by the deceased youth’s mother as Principal of the college, to eliminate her.
