Three days after a body was found in the waterbed of Sialiaganj Nala under the Mendhasal outpost of the Chandaka police limits on the outskirts of the city, the Commissionerate Police on Tuesday succeeded in cracking the murder mystery by arresting three accused.
Briefing reporters here, Twin City Commissioner of Police Dr RP Sharma said the body of Babuli alias Pramod Routray (44), a resident of flat number 202 of the Konark Apartment at Cuttack Road under the laxmisagar police station, had been found on November 8.
At the end of the investigation, the police found that Pramod was killed by his wife Trupti (26), he added. Describing the incident, Dr Sharma said there was a disturbed conjugal relation between the deceased and his wife. Pramod, who was running an Indane gas agency Maa Mangala Gas Agency at Cuttack road, was a sex-perverted man, he added.
In the year 2003, Dr Sharma said, Pramod had forcibly taken Trupti, who was by that time attending the age of only 15, and kept her as wife. They were blessed with a male child, who is now eight years old. After a few months of their relation, Pramod had started torturing Trupti mentally and physically.
During investigation, Trupti confessed that Pramod was a drunkard and a womaniser, to which she was protesting and in return he used to torture her. later, Pramod developed illicit relations with his wife’s younger sister. Pramod was such a pervert that one day he forced Trupti to share bed with other persons, which she could not bear.
Dr Sharma said Pramod’s sadist conduct filled Trupti’s mind with hatred and she planned to eliminate him from her life. On November 7 morning, she administered 25 sleeping pills in the protein juice without Pramod’s knowledge. When Pramod fell unconscious, she tied her chuni aound his neck and strangulated him to death.
Soon after the murder, Trupti told her father Rajkishore Mohapatra and younger brother Mahesh Mohapatra about the incident. They put Pramod’s body in a gunny bag and took it in a Ford car to throw it away in the Sialiaganja Nala near Deras. The police seized the car, the chuni and other articles used in the murder from the accused after arresting them.