Bhubaneswar: On the fourth day of the remand period of the four persons accused of murdering cameraman Manas Swain, a team of Crime Branch left with prime accused Sarmishta Rout to Chandbali in Bhadrak district for the crime scene recreation.
Crime Branch ADG Sanjeeb Panda informed that Sarmishta has been taken for crime scene recreation at Chandbali, from where Manas was kidnapped. She will be further taken to Dayal Ashram in Bhubaneswar where Manas was murdered and subsequently to Nayagarh where the body was disposed of.
It is pertinent to mention that one of the accused Raj alias Ranjan Nayak has already confessed to the crime. He informed that he along with mastermind Sarmistha, Jhuna Bhoi, Bhagyadhar Nayak, and Nilu alias Bibek had kidnapped the deceased Manas from Palaspur under Chandbali Police Station in Bhadrak in the car of Sarmistha and brought him to Dayal Ashram under Airfield Police Station in Bhubaneswar.
They assaulted Manas brutally at the Ashram. Niranjan Sethi had also assaulted the deceased in the Ashram. After his death, they shifted the dead body of Manas in the car of Sarmistha Rout and disposed of the dead body under Ranpur police limit in Nayagarh district.
After disposal of the dead body, they proceeded to a place located on the side of Daitari–Paradeep express Highway, about two kilometres from Chandikhole. There they burnt the belongings like one mobile earphone, one pair of chappal of the deceased Manas, and a jute sack in which they had wrapped the dead body and saree and had thrown the spade and pickaxe used for digging and burying the dead body in the nearby bush.
Based on his statement, a Crime Branch team had recovered the belongings of Manas and other materials from the spot yesterday.
