Commissioner of Police YB Khurania on Sunday said the mobile phone of Asutosh alias Rishi Mohanty, who died under suspicious circumstances on May 6 last year, has been seized by the police and would be sent to the Central Forensic Science laboratory in Kolkata for test.
The missing mobile phone of the dead engineering student is a very crucial evidence for the police as it is alleged that the controversial sex clip purportedly featuring BMC Mayor and senior BJD leader Ananta Naarayn Jena was being shot through the device.
“The mobile phone of Rishi has been seized and it will be sent to Kolkata for forensic test to get further leads in the investigation of the case. We would try to extract data such as call records and ascertain whether it had the video file that is being circulated on social media,” Khurania said.
It was alleged that the Mayor during the postmortem of Rishi at the Capital Hospital was searching for the mobile phone raising eyebrows of many. Even, Rishi’s family members also pleaded their ignorance about the mobile phone.