The Sundargarh police on Tuesday arrested and court-forwarded a Third Year engineering student allegedly for sending obscene and threatening messages through WhatsApp to his wife whom he had ditched a few months back.
According to sources, Jayant Pandey (22), a resident of Birmitrapur and a Third Year engineering student at the Centurion University at Jatani, had married secretly to his 19-year-old girlfriend of Kuanrmunda. The girl is also a First Year Plus Three student of the university. They had been in love since they were studying in the Rourkela Municipal College.
As per the allegation of the girl, Jayant used to keep physical relationship with her while staying in hotels at different places, including Puri. Jayant brought the girl to his house at Birmitrapur and kept her there for some days till his family members rejected her.
On November 22, 2017, she had lodged an FIR against Jayant and his family members at the Rourkela Women police station. However, Jayant managed to get an anticipatory bail from the High Court.
On February 11, the girl, her mother and two women Samiti members of Kuanrmunda reached Jayant’s house and demanded that the victim be allowed to stay with the family. However, Jayant’s family members locked the door from inside.
Infuriated over this, Jayant sent filthy and threat-for-life messages to her mobile through WhatsApp number. On February 12, the girl lodged an FIR in the Kuanrmunda police outpost against Jayant.
Acting on her complaint, Birmitrapur PS IIC DP Das arrested Jayant after an interrogation. Since his bail plea was rejected, he was sent to jail custody.