Bhubaneswar, May 29 -- Former Crime Branch IG Arun Bothra on Thursday described the 2018 Patnagarh parcel bomb case as "the most complicated" case in his career after a court sentenced Punjilal Meher, a college lecturer, to life imprisonment for the deadly blast that killed two and injured one.

Speaking to ANI, Bothra, who supervised the case back in 2018 laid out the details.

"...It was the most complicated case of my life. The incident was like that - just days after the wedding of Soumyasekhar Sahu, the couple received a parcel at their residence in Patnagarh. When Soumyasekhar opened the gift, only for a powerful explosion to rip through the room. The blast killed Soumyasekhar, his grandmother, and left his wife injured," Arun Bothr...