The Derabish police on Monday morning unearthed the body of a 28-year-old youth, Debi Prasad Swain alias Dipu, of village Deshapur from a rainwater-submerged agriculture field near Narapasahi at Jahangar village under Palei gram panchayat.
Kendrapada SDPO Nrushingha Charan Swain said the police seized the body and the deceased’s bike lying on the roadside.
According to police sources, Dipu, son of Bijay Kumar Swain of Deshapur village, returned on Sunday night from his brother-in-law’s house at Mahanga. Shortly later, he got a telephone call and went with his bike. later, his body and bike were found in the agriculture field of Bata Samal at Narapasahi of Jahangar village.
Police suspect that Dipu might have been killed by electrocution by miscreants and his body was thrown into agriculture field. There were several injury marks on his body.
According to the SDPO, though the exact reason behind the death is to be established after postmortem, as per the preliminary investigation the police found the youth was killed due to a love affair as Dipu had an affair with the 20-year-old daughter of Jiban Samal of Jahangara village .
Dipu’s cousin brother Srimanta Routray lodged an FIR at the Derabish police station on Monday and the police registered a case and started inquiry unto the incident. later, the police detained Jiban Samal, his daughter and father and interrogated them in connection with the murder case.