A 35-year-old youth from Bhubaneswar, who had gone missing since Saturday, was reportedly murdered in Niali area of Cuttack district, said police sources on Wednesday.
The police arrested three persons, including mastermind of the murder and seized an Indica car used in the crime from their possession. The youth was identified as Gadadhar Behera of Athantar Balipatna on the outskirts of the city. He was working as an office assistant in a private software company in Nayapalli area.
According to reports, the family members of Behera had filed a missing report at the Nayapalli police station on Sunday after he didn’t return home late on Saturday night. Acting on the missing report, the police investigated into the matter but found later that he had been murdered. During the investigation, a special squad of the Commissionerate Police and the Nayapalli police found that security guard of Behera’s office Biswakalyan Pushpalak (26) hatched the murder plot.Pushpalak confessed that he was in one-sided love with Behera’s wife. When Behera’s wife refused him twice, lovelorn Pushpalak became angry and hatched a plan to kill Behera, said DCP Nitinjit Singh.
On January 18, Pushpalak kidnapped Behera from the city and subsequently murdered him. Subsequently, he called his cousin brother Brundaban Padhi to help him dispose of the body. Padhi came in an Indica car with driver Chhabi Mallick to take Behera’s body. The trio took the body to Pushpalak’s village Madhab under the Niali police limits in Cuttack district and buried it behind his house, said Nayapalli Inspector-In-Charge K C Mund. The Commisionerate Police along with a scientific team reached the spot in Niali and located Behera’s body. In the presence of the police team, Pushpalak dug out and uncovered the body.