Bhubaneswar, Feb. 9 -- The Nilagiri Police on Friday recovered the bodies of two friends who had been missing for the last couple of days and detained six persons in this connection.The deceased have been identified as Bhawani Rout and Manoranjan Mahapatra. The police have detained Bhawani's elder brother, his sister-in-law and four supari killers.

Locals said Bhawani and his brother had been at loggerheads over a piece of land. The sibling duo was in a bitter relationship over the land dispute. So, it is suspected that Bhawani's brother and sister-in-law hired contract killers from Balasore to kill the former.

However, both Bhawani and Manoranjan were best friends and spent most of their time together. On the fateful day, the two frien...