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Uchhapada village is located about 5 km east of Tangi police station. About 20 Pana families live in this village, among them, the victim Abhinna Mallik is a poor elderly homeless person. For 15 years, he cleared the forest on a government land and cultivated paddy there, a year ago his only son, who was mentally deranged, was taken to the Cuttack Hospital for treatment as his condition worsened. Taking advantage of that opportunity, two persons of General caste of Poparada village, Hada Swain and Muralidhar Swain, cultivated the place in Abhinna Mallik's absence. After returning to the village, Abhinna Mallik, when came to know about all these incidents, questioned the accused in this regard they answered that they had cultivated the land as the land was uncultivated. The following year, when the accused returned to his place and started farming again, when Abhinna Mallik questioned them, they taunted him with foul language and racial slurs and assaulted him fatally, with injuring him severely. The incident happened on 18.08.2022 at around 12:00PM, by the time some of Abhinna's neighbours and relatives who were working in the nearby field rushed there to rescue him. When Abhinna was taken to the police station by his relatives with injuries, the police immediately sent him to the nearby health centre for treatment, later he was shifted to Cuttack Hospital as his health condition was very serious. Whether he was in a very critical condition, was discharged from the hospital within two days by doctors with having 25 stitches, which was a completely unexpected event. A case has been registered in this incident and one of the two accused has been arrested and prosecute, another accused has evaded arrest by falsely feigning ill health and Abhinna Mallik is under medical treatment.