A 64-year-old teacher of a private residential school was arrested and forwarded to court by the Khaira police after they unfolded a murder mystery of a Class-IV student which occurred on September 27.
The accused was identified as Rabindranath Rout, teacher of Prakruti Vidya Mandir, at village Gadapokhari. Deceased Krishna Das’ body was found floating in a water body near his school on September 27 morning under mysterious circumstance.
The mother of the deceased had lodged an FIR with police alleging murder. The Khaira police after seizing the body sent it for postmortem. The autopsy report suggested that he was killed by throttling.
Khaira PS IIC Lopamudra Nayak said the case was registered under Section 302 of IPC and an investigation was on.
“The accused teacher absconded a day after the incident and the suspicion aggravated when the autopsy report suggested that the death occurred due to strangulation. We zeroed in on him. He was hiding in Angul . While his phone was tracked he was apprehended from a house in Angul district,” said Nayak.
“During investigation we could learn that the accused was beating him (deceased) in office room as he was not obeying him. The accused after killing him by strangulation had dumped the body in a pond to give it a shape of unnatural ( accidental )death,” she said .
The police could learn that the accused, a graduate, was a former employee of a textile mill . He was appointed in the residential school, having 128 strength , in April this year .
The owner of the school also accused in the case was absconding.