The main accused in the murder of a 29-year-old Mahalakshmi in Bengaluru whose body was found in the refrigerator, was found dead, hanging from a tree in Odisha. A diary was recovered from the accused in which he has written confession of the murder and he had chopped the woman’s body.
On Wednesday, the police recovered a diary, which is believed to be of the deceased man Mukti Ranjan Ray, where he confessed of killing the woman whose chopped body was found in the fridge of her house in the southern metropolis. Dhusuri Police Station IIC, Santanu Jena said, ‘We have recovered the body of Mukti Ranjan Ray hanging from a tree. The body was handed over to his family after conducting post-mortem examination’.
‘The police recovered a diary of Ray in which he confessed that he had chopped the body of the Bengaluru woman to 59 pieces after killing her. He had returned to the village from Bengaluru after the murder’, said the SP. An officer said, ‘The Odisha police found a man, the key suspect in the killing of a woman in Bengaluru, hanging from a tree in Bhadrak district’.
Bhadrak SP Varun Guntupalli said Ray (30), a resident of Bhuinpur village under Dhusuri Police Station, was the prime suspect in the woman’s murder and he was allegedly on the run following the discovery of the body parts of Mahalakshmi, a 29-year-old woman’.
‘The police have the information about the presence of the suspect in Odisha , and teams formed to crack the case have been sent there to nab him’, said Karnataka Home Minister G Parameshwara.
Jena said on asking whether the Karnataka police had contacted Bhadrak police, ‘We had received a message, but no representative of the Karnataka police has reached here’. The body of Mahalakshmi, chopped into many pieces and kept into the fridge, was found by her mother and elder sister at her Vyalikaval home on Saturday.
According to the media reports, Mukti had opposed Mahalakshmi’s closeness with another man and it is still not known who the another person was. The deceased woman’s ex-husband on Sunday expressed suspicion about the involvement of a man known to Mahalakshmi. Earlier, Mahalakshmi’s ex-husband said that he suspected the role of Ashraf, who he had identified as her lover. According to the media reports, both the husband and the victim were living separately.
‘The suspect and the woman were working in a garment shop where they met and become friends. The two were in a relationship’, according to the police in Bengaluru. Mahalakshmi was pressuring him to marry her which led to arguments between them and led to an disagreements. The accused, who is very short-tempered, killed Mahalakshmi and later chopped her body, said Police citing preliminary investigation.
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