Pabitranagar: Police cracked the Sunanda Pradhan murder case that took place at Shiling village under Samal police limits in Angul district last Wednesday and arrested eight accused including his wife. Sunanda was murdered over suspected infidelity.
All the accused were court forwarded and remanded to judicial custody as their bail pleas were rejected.
According to Samal police station IIC Charulata Behera, Sunanda and his wife Bharati suspected each other of having extra marital affairs. There were so many occasions when the couple had heated arguments over this.
Wednesday night was no different. Upon reaching home, Sunanda picked up a quarrel with Bharati over the same issue.
Fearing her husband might kill her, Bharati called in her relatives in parents’ house. Her father Srinibas, her brother Pinu, brother-in-law Jatindra and two others—Basant and Arjuna—reached her house late in the same night.
The verbal duel then took an ugly turn when the accused lost their cool and started attacking Sunanda with wooden planks. They continued beating him up till he collapsed on the ground and died. Bharati and her two daughters surrendered at the police station the same night while others fled from the spot.
After a thorough investigation, authorities came to know what had happened Wednesday night and arrested all the eight accused.
PNN