Police are planning to take Dhamnagar double murder and rape accused Gopinath Mohanty alias Babua in remand to extract more information about the heinous crime committed on Sunday.
Babua, who confessed to the crime, was produced at the Bhadrak ADJ Court here on Wednesday.
Following his arrest on Monday night, the accused claimed to have killed the couple for previous enmity. However, a few hours later, the Bhadrak SP revealed that the motive behind the murders was to grab Rs 2 lakh which the couple had received after a legal settlement.
However, since Babua has been frequently changing his statements, police wish to elicit more information from him and understand the real motive behind the murder, informed sources.
Earlier on Monday, body of Bhaktilata Beuria was found near the kitchen of her house. Her husband Rabi Beuria, who was missing after the incident, was found dead in a canal after Babua confessed to the crime.
After Babua’s confession, police recovered Rabi’s body from a canal near Kalitra in Dhamnagar area of the district. The Bhadrak police on Monday night had nabbed Babua from near a petrol pump at Chandrasekharpur in Bhubaneswar.