A 20- year- old youth, who went with a couple of girls in an auto rickshaw on Wednesday, stopped near Basapur bridge under Sadar police limits and after a brief spell of altercation with the duo girls there, jumped into the luna river and went missing in the river water.
The locals detained the duo girls and called police. According to Kendrapara Sadar police station IIC Biranchi Bag, the youth was identified as Soumyaranjan Jena, son of Rabindra Jena of Madhapur village. Police took the two girls into custody and were interrogating them.
The fire tender personnel of Korua rushed to the spot and carried out a search operation for two hours, but failed to trace the missing youth. They suspect that the youth might have drowned in river current.The detained girls were identified as Snehanjali Bhola of Gopa village and Subhasmita Parida of Charapada village.
As per a preliminary investigation by police, Soumyaranjan was engaged in Kendrapada collectorate as data entry operator in the voter identity card correction section by a private outsourcing company. The girls were also working with him as data entry operators in the same section. Though the reason behind the youth’s taking the drastic step was yet to be established, but police and locals suspect it could be fallout of a love affair.
However, Rabindra Jena, father of Soumyaranjan, denied that his son took the step due to failure in love. He stated that a scanner was stolen from the office a couple of days back. As his son was in-charge of computer section, so he was undergoing mental agony and that might have forced him to jump into the river, he stated.