Bhubaneswar: Odisha Police arrested a man in Surat, who was accused of killing a 76-year-old woman at her residence in Bhubaneswar on the night of November 3, an officer said Thursday.
Laxmisagar police, in collaboration with Gujarat Police, arrested the accused, Balbhadra Maharana, in Gujarat Wednesday.
The man, who used to look after the elderly woman living alone in Laxmisagar area of the Odisha capital, was being brought to the state on transit remand, he said.
The deceased, identified as Kunjalata Nanda, widow of a forest officer, lived in one portion of her two-storey house, while a tenant lived in another, according to police.
Her two sons live in the US and Mumbai, while her two married daughters live in different parts of Bhubaneswar.
On the morning of November 4, the tenant family got no response from the landlady despite repeated calls and doorbell rings. They informed the police, and it was subsequently found that the woman had been tied up and murdered, police said.
During examination of CCTV footage, police found that the caretaker fled on a scooter with jewellery and other valuables November 3 and has remained absconding since then.
