After a brief lull, Silk City Brahmapur has witnessed murder of another woman. A few unidentified miscreants killed the woman in the Gatebazaar area in the city and robbed her house, police sources said on Friday.
The deceased, identified as Sobharani(40), was staying with her husband Prafulla Patra at ORT Colony of Gatebazaar.They were married 10 years ago. Sobharani had a sewing machine centre, where she was engaged in the job during last couple of months while Prafulla is working as a secretary of a local NGO.According to reports, the incident happened on Thursday evening when Prafulla was not in the house. He returned home at 10 pm in the night and found the door closed from inside.When Prafulla entered the house after breaking the front door, he found his wife dead and lying on the floor of the second room while the belongings were scattered in the house. He informed the police about the incident.
The police, after sending the body for postmortem, have started a manhunt to nab the culprits involved in the murder.“We have started investigation into the case by sending our scientific team and dog squad on Friday,” said Brahmapur SDPO PK Patnaik. While the reason behind the murder was yet to be known, police sources said the miscreants might have killed the woman by asphyxiating her.