The handwritings in the suicide notes have matched with those of the deceased Ananga Manjari Patra and her siblings who committed suicide here nearly a month back, the Handwriting Bureau of the Crime Branch (CB) stated in its report.
Ananga Manjari (54) was the former manager of Paralakhemundi Maharaja Gajapati Gopinath Narayan Deb.
The bodies of Ananga Manjari and her two siblings Sanjay and Bijaylaxmi were recovered from her Jangam Sahi residence on August 21.
Another brother, Santosh, was rescued from the house in a critical condition, but the following day he died at the MKCG Medical College Hospital in Brahmapur.
Three suicide notes were later recovered from the residence wherein names of 11 persons were mentioned. The writers of the notes had held local MlA K Surya Rao and a particular television channel responsible for their deaths.
The Crime Branch probing the mass suicide case is likely to bring these persons and the concerned television channel into the ambit of its investigations as handwritings have matched.
Rao had led a campaign demanding action against the Ananga and her brother Sanjay, who worked as a personal assistant to the king, for keeping the Maharaja under house arrest and trying to sell off royal properties.