The Singla police unearthing a four-month-old mysterious murder of a 19 -year-old-girl have arrested a postmaster.
The accused identified as Girija Shankar Dey was forwarded to court after being arrested under sections of murder and suppression of evidence and further sent to jail custody.
Lopamudra Mohanty, daughter of Abhimanyu Mohanty of Jamsuli village had gone missing on February 16. She was a student of plus three science , physics honours, of local Jamsuli College. She had gone out of her house stating to attend mid semester exam yet she didn’t return.
Even after searching at a number of places when the family members didn’t find her, a missing compliant was lodged by the police. During investigation police could learn that Girija , post master at Paunsakuli , was familiar with the family and was hobnobbing with Loapmudra. Further, the police could learn that on the date of missing, the mobile location of both Girija and Lopamudra was in Gunjisahi forest under the Baripada Sadar police station.
With the help of Baripada counterparts, the Singla police could find an unknown body on March 2 in a highly decomposed state.
The body was identified as Lopamudra by her parents after seeing her shoes and apparels etc .
The police during investigation could know that Girija while used to visit the house of the deceased , a love relationship developed between them.
The former while proposed for marriage to her , the latter family didn’t accept the proposal since there was caste difference.
Girija , however , in some pretext, took Lopamudra in his bike to Baripada . And after taking her to a secluded place in the forest, strangulated her to death when she didn’t agree to his marriage proposal. Later, he fled the spot. In order to keep him from suspicion he again started visiting house of the deceased as had been doing earlier, informed SDPO, Basta, Ranjit Prusty.