Bahanaga: The body of an Anganwadi worker was found hanging inside the Anganwadi centre (AWC) at Maharajpur village under Remuna block and Khantapada police station limits in Balasore district, Friday. The deceased was identified as Pragnya Paramita Das, 30, wife of Bismit Ranjan Das of the village. This has become the talk of the town after family members of the deceased woman alleged murder by her husband. She was hanged inside the Anganwadi centre after the murder to give it the colour of suicide as she was opposing an extra-marital affair of Bismit with another woman, they alleged. As per reports, Pragnya Paramita went to the centre as usual Friday.
However, when she did not return home after noon, her mother-in-law Renuka Das asked an ASHA working in the same centre to enquire about her. When she went to verify, she found her hanging from the ceiling of the centre through a rope. Informed, her husband Bismit and mother-in-law Renuka reached the centre and after recovering the body rushed to Khantapada community health centre, where the doctors pronounced her ‘brought dead’. Later family members of the deceased woman reached the hospital and alleged murder. An angry mob present there also beat up Bismit who was later rescued by the police from their grip. The father of the deceased woman lodged a murder case against Bismit at Khantapada Police Station.