Sagar shared a video on Facebook in which he expressed his utmost desire to render his voice for Jagannath bhajans. He said, “Jagannath is the Lord of Universe. I just cannot go against his will. I cannot dare to say no to sing Lord Jagannath’s bhajans."
"I have no such intention of not singing bhajans of Lord Jagannath. I can say my turn had not come. Whenever he wants me to sing, no one can stop me from singing his bhajans. It’s a misconception that I am not interested to sing Jagannath’s bhajan. I really felt bad to hear this,” he added.
In the social media post, Sagar disclosed the name of bhajan for which he is going to render his voice. He will make his debut with ‘Dandabata Heli Mu Kalia Pakhare’.
Earlier, musician Japani Rout filed a complaint with Kharavel Nagar Police against Sagar. According to the complaint, Japani requested Sagar to sing a few bhajans for him. Sagar, on the other hand, had been rejecting Japani’s offer for the last five years.
Frustrated over Japani’s repeated requests, one of Humane Sagar’s acquaintances rang singer Tapu to vent out his anger and said he would kill Japani when he comes to Cuttack.
Senior police officials informed that the accused, Pavitra Mohan Mohanty had created a fake Facebook ID in the name of a girl and sent a friend request to a youth in 2017.
After becoming friends, Mohanty started to share obscene pictures and messages with the youth.
"After chatting and sharing obscene pictures, the accused had closed the Facebook account. Later, posing as Cuttack DCP, he started to blackmail the youth by sharing his chat messages," said Semiliguda SDPO, Niranjan Behera.
Behera further informed that the accused had threatened to arrest the youth by implicating him in a false case. With no other option, the youth had transferred over Rs 7.13 lakh in two years in the bank account of the accused.
"The matter came to light after the youth refused to pay Rs 57,000 as demanded by the accused recently and lodged a complaint in connection with the incident. We have arrested the accused," said Behera.