Insisted for marriage, he wanted to kill her
In a breakthrough in the attack on an 18-year-old girl near Bhubaneswar Railway station, the Bhubaneswar Government Railway Police on Thursday arrested the main accused.
The accused identified as Abinash Mohanty (20), a Plus III second year (Botnay honours) student of Nayagarh Autonomous College and a resident of Saradhapur village in Nayagarh district, had attacked the girl who is a native of Balugaon and also a Plus III Commerce student of the same college. The girl was drugged before being attacked on Saturday near platform number four on Saturday.
According to reports, both the victim and the accused had a relationship. Both of them came to Bhubaneswar on Saturday and stayed in a lodge in Ashoknagar area. Sources said when the girl insisted on marriage, the accused brought her near the station with a motive to kill her. He attacked her with sharp weapons in an isolated place. The victim is still undergoing treatment at the SCB Medical College and Hospital in Cuttack.