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Parcel bomb: Punjilal gets life imprisonment
Orissa POST
|May 29, 2025
Seven years after a 'parcel bomb' blast killed a newly-married software engineer and his grandmother, and left his wife grievously wounded in Bolangir’s Patnagarh, a court in the district Wednesday awarded life imprisonment to the accused, Punjilal Meher, after holding him guilty of the crime that sent shockwaves across the nation in 2018.
Patnagarh Additional District and Sessions Judge Sonali Pattanaik also imposed a total fine of ₹1,40,000 on Meher, 56, for multiple charges, government counsel Chittaranjan Kanungo said.
The court convicted Meher under Sections 302 (₹50,000 fine), 307 (₹20,000 fine) and 201 (₹10,000 fine) of the IPC and Sections 3 (₹50,000 fine) and 4 (₹10,000 fine) of the Explosive Substances Act, he said.
“Our submission was to treat it as a rarest of rare cases. However, the court did not observe it as a rarest of rare cases because all heinous crime cases cannot be treated like that,” Kanungo said, adding that Meher will remain behind bars for the rest of his life.
This story is from the May 29, 2025 edition of Orissa POST.
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