Nayagarh: The arrest of a person by the Cuttack Commisionerate Police for allegedly murdering three persons by slitting their throats in the city took a new turn after the wife of the accused claimed that her husband was innocent and that the police had falsely implicated him, a report said.
Three persons sleeping on the pavements were found killed July 23 and 24. The triple murders sparked shockwaves all over the state and people demanded immediate arrest of the culprit.
The city police with the help of Odagaon Police raided Gopinathpur Sahi in Sunamuhin village in Odagaon block in this district and arrested Narayan Sahu and termed him a psycho killer. The police claimed that Narayan was mentally unstable and is involved in the triple murders.
However, two days after the arrest of Narayan, his wife Geetanjali Sahu came out in his support and absolved him of all charges. Geetanjali has claimed that her husband is innocent and has been framed by the police.
The matter came out after Geetanjali accompanied by her father-in-law Dayanidhi Sahu and some residents of Gopinathpur Sahi knocked on the doors of Nayagarh SP here Wednesday. They lodged a complaint with ASP Dillip Sahani after they found the SP absent. Geetanjali and the villagers demanded an impartial probe into the incident.
Sahani said he will apprise the Cuttack Police as the matter is in their jurisdiction.
Geetanjali questioned how the Cuttack city police can implicate her husband in the crime when he was in the village July 23, the day the murder took place.
Sources said the accused Narayan is the younger son of Dayanidhi Sahu of Gopinathpur Sahi in Sunamuhin village. Twenty years back, Narayan was staying in the Kumpapada area of Ganjam hawking bangles and slippers. He married Geetanjali of Mahiopur village of Nugaon in Nayagarh district in March 2006 and came to stay with his wife at Kumpapada.
He left the bangle and slipper business and started peddling aluminium and silverware from 2009. He saved enough money from his business, purchased land and constructed a two-storied house there. He took a loan of Rs 1.62 lakh later from a person named Rama Chandra Sahu in Kumpapada and from other moneylenders to run his business.
However, his business started declining and he sold his house and the land to clear the debts of Rama Chandra Sahu in 2017. He started living in a rented house and continued his business, but he was pushed into distress as moneylenders pestered him.
This caused his mental instability and he started behaving abnormal. His wife left him and came to stay at her in-laws’ house and later shifted to her parents’ house in Mahipur village.
Narayan’s family tried to treat him at SCB Medical College and Hospital in Cuttack, but he could not be cured. He visited his sister in Bhubaneswar July 22 and came back the next day. He was roaming in the village when police raided and arrested him July 27 night.
PNN