Bhubaneswar, Jan. 8 -- The decks have been cleared for the reopening of the sensational Mahanga double murder case as the Salepur JMFC court has allowed a final protest petition against the then Odisha law minister Pratap Jena. The court has directed to file the protest petition by January 12.

It is pertinent to mention here that BJP leader Kulamani Baral, who was the block chairman of Mahanga, and his associate Dibyasingha Baral were brutally killed on January 2, 2021. Both Kulamani and Dibyasingha were returning home on a bike when some miscreants attacked them with sharp-edged weapons near Jankoti in Mahanga of Cuttack.

Later, the prime accused in the case, Prafulla Biswal, was found dead under mysterious circumstances near Govindpur...