Cuttack: Mahanga quintuple murder accused Shiba Prasad Sahoo will be taken on remand by the police for crime scene reconstruction, informed Bimal Barik, SDPO, Salipur.
“We will forward the accused to court today. We will get him on remand and go for crime scene reconstruction,” said Barik speaking to reporters at SCB Medical College & Hospital where post-mortem of the bodies was being conducted.
He further informed that a team of female police officers had visited Kusupur, the native village of the accused and has recorded his wife’s statement in audiovisual format.
The SDPO said that all angles that will come up in the course of the investigation will be probed.
He said as per the wishes of the family, the bodies of the deceased persons will be cremated at the Kalia Boda crematorium here after completion of post-mortem.
In a gory turn of events over a long-drawn dispute over a patch of land, accused Shiba Prasad of Kusupur village in Mahanga area of Cuttack district on the intervening night of Monday and Tuesday hacked to death five members of his elder sibling Alekha Chandra Sahoo’s family. Shiba Prasad apart from killing his brother Alekha had killed his sister-in-law Rashmi Rekha (Alekha’s wife), niece Smruti Sandhya, and nephews Smruti Sahil and Smruti Saurav.
