Man Holds Family Hostage At Gunpoint For Refusing Marriage Proposal, Arrested: Odisha Cops

Police and fire brigade personnel brought out the family through the window, while the youth was guarding them outside the door of the room.

A man held a family hostage at gunpoint in Odisha's Bolangir town on Tuesday as they rejected his marriage proposal with their niece, police said. Wielding a gun, Bikram Panda barged into the house of Divyalochan Hota in the Shantipada area, holding him, his wife and son hostage, they said. "He put a gun at my head and asked me to get my niece. All my appeals that she is not in our house failed to move him," Mr Hota said after being rescued. "However, we managed to enter a room and locked it from inside," he said.