Bhubaneswar, Feb. 24 -- The police have launched a fresh investigation into the suspicious death of former minister Naba Das' cook at Odisha's Jharsuguda town in 2022.

The cops have interrogated two persons, one serving and one former household employee of the ex-minister, in connection with the death case.

The police in Jharsuguda had interrogated Hema Sagar Nayak, a household employee of the former Health Minister, yesterday. They questioned Munu Prasad, a former employee at Naba Das' house, in connection with the suspicious death of the former minister's cook Lalit Sahu (22) at Jharsuguda in April 2022.

"I had joined as an employee at the residence of the former minister at Jharsuguda just two days before the death of the cook. I ha...