The postmortem report of software professional Sweta Utkal Kumari availed by the Commissionerate police on Wednesday revealed that the cause of her death as asphyxiation.
As per the report, Sweta’s body did not have any injuries in the body and she died by hanging from a roof.
The police also retrieved data from Sweta’s mobile phone which was formatted earlier including the call details records and some pictures.
Meanwhile, Sweta’s boyfriend Soumyajeet Mohapatra has still not appeared before the police after being summoned and has asked for some more time through his lawyer.
City DCP Prateek Singh said, “Soumyajeet had come to the police station the day Sweta hanged herself and he was questioned too. As far as Sweta’s family is concerned, they had not registered any complaints that day, we registered an FIR after the later lodged a complaint .”
“Soumyajeet was mentally disturbed the day Sweta had died. So we allowed the family to take him home after assuring us cooperation,” Singh said.
“We have requested their family to provide us with whatever information they have on this case, so that we can go forward in the investigation. We are in touch with Soumyajeet’s family and they have assured us cooperation,” he added.
Earlier, the police have registered an abetment to suicide case under Section 306 against Soumyajeet on the basis of the complaint of the deceased's family.
Meanwhile, the police have conducted searches at a management institute in the city where Soumyajeet studies. He was on the police radar after Sweta’s body was found hanging in an apartment in Shailashree Vihar in the city on Sunday.
.The family members of the deceased alleged that she took the extreme step after being blackmailed by her boyfriend.
Notably, the father of the deceased had earlier alleged that Soumyajeet’s mother had demanded Rs 30 lakh from Sweta’s family for marrying