A sniffer dog played a key role in tracing bodies of five persons of a family from an abandoned well under the Koira police station of Sundargarh district four days ago that helped the police crack the sensational murder case of a woman and her four minor children over sorcery suspicion.
Six persons in the case were arrested and forwarded to court.
The crime occurred on Friday at Indupur village and on Saturday afternoon, a scientific team along with sniffer dog “Sandy” from the Rourkela police had gone to the spot to trace the bodies.
Sandy was engaged to trace the bodies, which immediately dragged his master towards the abandoned well and police saw broken bangles and hair near the well. When the cover of the well was taken out, the bodies were traced inside well and later with the help of pump set, water was dried and the bodies were brought out.
During investigation, police came to know about previous enmity of Debra Munda and his wife Sumi Munda with Mangri Munda and had been accusing Mangri of practicing black magic. According to police, during interrogation, Debra told that his daughter had died one month ago due to some ailment and his another daughter fell ill and when he and his wife Sumi approached tantric Budram Munda, he told them that Mangri was performing black magic on his family and Mangri’s children are witches. After hearing this, Debra along with her three brother-in-laws (wife Sumi’s brothers) identified as Raju Munda, Salu Munda and Dagam Munda had planned to kill Mangri and her children. Debra's co-brother, Motu Munda and Motu's wife Gurbari and another Sunil Munda had also conspired with Debra to finish Mangri and her children.
On January 24 night, Raju, Salu, Dagam and Sunil had reached the house of Mangri in a motor cycle and forcibly entered into Mangri’s house by breaking open the door and killed Mangri and her four children and dumped their bodies in an abandoned well.