Bhubaneswar: The prime suspect in the case of a ghastly murder of a youth in Bhubaneswar last month surrendered before the police at Mancheswar Police station here on Sunday.
The Police subsequently arrested the accused Rama Naik of Kedarpalli Slum under Capital police station limits.
“Based on some significant evidence fetched during the investigation, we realised she (Rama) was also involved in the case and she must be arrested. As there is a conspiracy angle to the murder case, we will file the charge sheet after a careful and meticulous investigation in the case,” said Pinak Mishra, the Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) of Bhubaneswar.
DCP Mishra also told the media persons that the city police had started the process to issue NBW against Rama and attach the moveable and immovable assets in her possession.
He further said that the family members of the victim, Sahadev (victim), have mentioned Rama as the key conspirator in the FIR lodged in the case.
He also stated that the family members had earlier approached the cops seeking her arrest. Mishra noted that police during the course of the investigation also found that there was a conspiracy hatched to murder Sahadev.
The DCP said that as many as seven persons including Rama have so far been arrested in the case. He revealed that about the involvement of more persons in the conspiracy to kill Sahadev.
It is pertinent here to mention that the bike-borne miscreants hacked Sahadev Nayak to death near the busy Rasulgarh Square area under Mancheswar Police limits in Bhubaneswar on January 8.
Sahadev who belonged to Kedarpalli slum under the Capital Police station area of the city was returning home after leaving her minor daughter at her school in the VSS Nagar area in the morning when the miscreants assaulted him with sharp weapons.
The police later initiated an investigation into the case, registering a case on the basis of a complaint lodged by the deceased’s wife.
She alleged that some residents of the slum who are engaged in selling brown sugar killed her husband for protesting against the illegal trade of drugs in the locality.
Meanwhile, Sahadev’s wife demanded the arrest of other family members of Rama Naik. She alleged that Rama surrendered before the police in a bid to save her son.
“All her family members are involved in the murder of my husband. I request the police to arrest the entire family of Rama Naik,” she said.
Earlier, the police had arrested six people in this connection, including a couple named Lipika Naik and her husband Laxmidhar. Lipika and her husband were directly involved in the murder. The couple beheaded Sahadev while he was on his way to Rasulgarh on a scooter.
Lipika, dressed in male attire, followed Sahadev on a bike as a pillion rider. On the Rasulgarh overbridge, she hacked Sahadev with a sharp weapon and fled the scene with her accomplice. Later, she threw the weapon into the Daya River, which was later recovered and seized by the police.
