Overview
- Rajesh Mishra, a District Congress Committee member and Youth Congress functionary, was discovered with a fatal gunshot injury at his residence in Bhagabati Nagar, Sonepur.
- Family members and neighbours reported hearing a single shot around 1 a.m., and officers recovered Mishra’s licensed revolver from the scene.
- Investigators say preliminary findings suggest suicide, though they stress that all angles remain under examination until forensic results are received.
- The body was taken to the District Headquarters Hospital for autopsy as police record statements from family, relatives and close associates.
- Police registered an unnatural death case following a complaint by Mishra’s father, a scientific team examined the spot, and the firearm was sent to the State Forensic Science Laboratory in Bhubaneswar for analysis.