Bhubaneswar: Soumyajeet Mohapatra, the reported boyfriend of software engineer Sweta Utkal Kumari who was found dead in her apartment in the Infocity area of Bhubaneswar on August 19, 2022, was sent to Jharpada Jail here on charges of abetting suicide.
Chandrasekhar Police had arrested Soumyajeet from his native house in Bansidhar Nagar in Odisha’s Sambalpur district in the wee hours of Thursday and brought him to Bhubaneswar yesterday. Following interrogation, he was produced in a court and subsequently sent to judicial custody after his bail plea was rejected.
Police said that they will now thoroughly investigate Soumyajeet’s laptop and even search his house for clues if needed.
Earlier, police examined examination of call records on Sweta’s mobile phone revealed that she had called Soumyajeet 15 times just half an hour before her death. An audio of a conversation between the couple had gone viral in which Soumyajeet was heard verbally abusing Sweta.
It is worth mentioning here that Sweta hailed from Odisha’s Bhadrak district and worked with an IT firm in Bhubaneswar. She was residing at the Garden apartment in the Infocity area of Bhubaneswar. When her family members failed to contact her over the telephone despite repeated attempts on August 19, 2022, they sought the help of Chandrasekharpur police.
Soon, a team from Chandrasekharpur police station visited her apartment and found Sweta’s room locked from the inside. Police broke open the door to gain entry and found Sweta hanging from the ceiling fan in her room.
Initially, the police passed off Sweat’s death as a suicide case but her family members filed a complaint alleging that Soumyajeet was blackmailing her.
