Overview
- A Burla vehicle check escalated when a Swift car ignored stop signals, leading police to chase it to Fishery Chhak.
- Police say a man in the car fired three rounds, so officers returned two shots that struck his right leg.
- The injured suspect is Manish Sahu, wanted in more than 14 cases including dacoity, robbery, and illegal cough syrup trade.
- Three associates were detained as officers seized a pistol, cartridges, the car, five phones, and ten cartons of Corex cough syrup.
- Police opened cases under India’s NDPS narcotics law and began a wider probe, with checkpoints in Sambalpur now tightened.