Police to move HC seeking cancellation of gangster Raja Acharya’s bail

Cuttack: The Commissionerate Police is likely to move the Orissa High Court seeking cancellation of bail granted to gangster Raja Acharya, informed Police Commissioner YB Khurania today.

Opinion of a legal expert will be sought by the police in this regard and the petition will be filed after receiving relevant documents from the court, said the Commissioner.

Acharya was granted conditional bail by the court on Friday in connection with the abduction of a Bhubaneswar-based Jyote Motors employee. His lawyer had informed that Acharya has got bail in all other cases pending against him clearing path for his release from jail.

Earlier on March 10, 2017, the Supreme Court had granted bail to Acharya in judo coach Biranchi Das murder case, but his bail petition in the Jyote Motors' employee abduction case was rejected by the Orissa High Court on April 26, 2017. Further the Commissionerate Police had decided to knock the doors of SC seeking rejection of the bail granted in Biranchi Das murder case.

There are as many as 40 cases pending against Acharya. He was convicted in the high profile murder case of Biranchi in December 2010 and has since been cooling his heels in the Jharpara Special Jail in Bhubaneswar. He was also awarded a four-year jail term by a trial court in Bhubaneswar in October 2011 for abducting Arun Mantri, brother of Ollywood actress Bidusmita, in April 2008.