The Commissionerate police on Thursday claimed to have cracked the mysterious death of Unmay Padhi, a youth who was believed to have been murdered over some viral sex videos.
Police said Unmay was not killed; rather, he committed suicide. The police stated this after getting a report from the Chandigarh-based Central Forensic laboratory.
Police Commissioner YB Khurnia at a Press meet here said Unmay had tried to prove the incident as ‘murder’ before committing suicide at the Kuakhai riverbed. A pair of shoes reportedly belonging to a woman found from the crime spot and the alta found on the deceased’s body were his attempts to confuse the police.
The AIIMS and forensic reports said that the stab wound found in the body appears to be self-inflicted. The injury mark on left side of the head was not caused by anyone. There was no defence injury on body of the deceased. The analysis of cell phone data revealed that he had travelled to the crime spot alone and he was alive from 6.00 pm till 11.44 pm, said Khurania.
“We verified the handwritten note recovered from the spot and investigated very minutely. We finally came to know that the deceased Unmay was not married and was working with a private company. He had affairs with a woman, very junior to him, working with him at the same office. He was accused of making a sex video viral. He was arrested and was sent to judicial custody for a long time. After he came to know that he lost his job and social status due to the woman, he targeted the woman and another person with whom she had affair during the period when Unmay was lodged in jail or before that,” Khurania said.
According to medical evidence, physical evidences, handwritten letter and mobile phone location traces, Unmay stabbed himself and later set himself on fire pouring petrol on his body, he said.
The claim made by the deceased in the handwritten note that the woman and her boyfriend were blackmailing him and the woman and her boyfriend had withdrawn the money from his account appeared to be false. During the probe, it was clear that he along with his brother had withdrawn cash from his bank account. He had clearly mentioned in the letter that both the woman and her boyfriend will be responsible for his death. However, we did not find any clue regarding the claim, Khurania said.
Initially, the postmortem report of Unmay, whose charred body was recovered from the riverbed on outskirts of the city on March 21, stated that he was stabbed with a knife and burnt alive.
Police suspected that more than one person were involved in the gruesome murder case.
A probe was launched by the Commissionerate police into the murder of Unmay, who was allegedly linked to viral sex video featuring him with a woman. During the course of investigation, police detained three persons including the woman victim belonging to Chandbali and her boyfriend indentified as Siddharth Parida for interrogation in connection with the murder.
The reports suggested that Unmay was brutally killed by professional killers over multiple viral sex videos surfacing on WhatsApp.