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Convict Punjilal Meher, who gained infamy for orchestrating a parcel bomb attack, will serve a life sentence instead of facing capital punishment.
While announcing the conviction, the Additional District Judge (ADJ) at Patnagarh highlighted the possibility of redemption, quoting, "Every sinner has a future and every saint has a past," acknowledging Meher's potential remorse and rehabilitation.
Once an English lecturer at a college, Meher now occupies Ward 11 in Bolangir Jail as inmate number 5882.
His transition from academia to incarceration was solidified after he chillingly demonstrated the bomb's creation to then Crime Bran...