As a new twist in the Pramod Routray murder case, the Commissionerate Police on Monday arrested the deceased’s sister-in-law Sangeeta Mohapatra for her involvement in the crime.
Sangeeta, Routray’s wife Trupti’s younger sister, was taken to the Mahila police station and then forwarded to the court after medical checkup, sources said.
The police interrogated Sangeeta in the morning basing on information of other three accused, Trupti, her father Rajkishore Mohapatra and brother Mahesh. The trio arrested earlier was brought on a two-day remand for interrogation. All three of them were produced in the court at the end of their two-day remand period on Monday.
During last two days, the police had recreated the entire murder sequence and the disposal of the body as narrated by the arrested accused. The police also examined the CCTV footage of the time when Pramod’s body was being taken out of the apartment.
Notably, the police had arrested Trupti, her father and brother Mahesh on November 11 in connection with the murder. Trupti had confessed before the police that Pramod was torturing her mentally and physically. Even he had forced her to share bed with other persons, which created hatred for her husband.
To take revenge, on November 7 morning Trupti had added 25 sleeping pills with protein juice of her husband. When he fell unconscious under the effect of the sleeping pills in the juice, she had strangled him to death with her chuni. later Trupti, her father and brother threw Pramod’s body away in the Sialiaganja Nala near Deras on the outskirts of the city.