In the ongoing probe into the death of social activist and motivational speaker Aditya Dash, the Crime Branch police are likely to conduct polygraph test on three persons, including his wife Bidyashree to crack the mystery.
Police source said Aditya’s two associates Papu and Bikash would also undergo the lie detector test.
The probe team decided to conduct the test due to mismatch in statements of the trio, Bidyashree, Papu and Bikash, during a series of interrogations a month after Aditya’s death.
Following direction of DGP Abhay, the Crime Branch is now investigating into ‘mysterious’ death case of Aditya. Earlier, the case was being probed by the Government Railway Police (GRP).
However, the People for Seva, an NGO, which was run by Aditya, has demanded a CBI inquiry into the case.
Aditya had been found dead on a railway track near the Lingaraj Temple Road station in Bhubaneswar on July 7. Initial reports said a ‘mentally-disturbed’ Aditya was hit by a train on the track.
Aditya was a popular face on social media platform. He had 81,000 followers on Facebook. He was running an old-age home at Sundarpada on the city’s outskirts. He had married his love Bidyashree on June 9. Less than a month of their wedlock, he was found dead under mysterious circumstances.
Aditya’s last Facebook post was regarding a quote over his later death indicated that he ended his life out of depression.
Besides, police seized a handwritten diary of Aditya, in which it was mentioned on a page that no one was responsible for his death. The forensic report on the alleged ‘suicide note’ confirmed that it was written by him.
Meanwhile, the postmortem report received by the GRP showed that Aditya died due to grievous injuries on his head, which was severely damaged.