Bhubaneswar: Revealing yet another instance of inordinate delay by Commissionerate police in arresting the criminals, the cops have failed to crack the murder case of Sanyasi Swain April 18 this year.
According to the deceased’s wife and daughter, “Forty-six days is not too short a time span to nab the accused whose names and whereabouts are known to the police. It’s a pity that cops are asking us to catch the accused.”
Sanyasi, a resident of Ganjam district, was a daily wager at the Baramunda bus stand and was staying at Tarini Basti in Gandamunda here.
Sources said, some miscreants attacked Sanyasi with sharp weapons April 18 night while he was asleep at his residence. Sanyasi suffered critical head and neck injuries. Finding Swain in a pool of blood, his friends rushed him to a private healthcare facility here from where he was shifted to SCB Medical College and Hospital in Cuttack as his condition worsened, sources added. However, as his health showed no signs of improvement there, he was shifted to AIIMS here where he succumbed April 23.
Swain’s relatives claim that the former, on his deathbed, had revealed details about his attackers before the police.
Sources said Swain’s wife had provided the cops with the photos and addresses of the alleged killers but the cops have ignored them and were apparently indifferent to take action in this regard.
After Sanyasi’s demise, his wife along with her children left their residence here fearing threat to their life. She now stays at their village in Ganjam. Sanyasi’s daughter, a high school student and his two sons, who were studying in a primary school near Gandamunda, have discontinued their studies.
Seeking justice, the deceased’s relatives have been regular visitors to the Khandagiri police station, but to no avail. Instead his wife and daughter have been subjected to mockery by the cops, sources said. “For them it’s a travesty. They mock us saying that if we know where my father’s killers are, then why don’t we catch them,” rued Sanyasi’s daughter.
Sources said whenever Sanyasi’s wife and daughter visit the capital, fearing their life instead of staying at their residence at Gandamunda they spend the night at the police station.
Meanwhile, the inspector in-charge of Khandagiri police Himansu Bhusan Swain said, “We have been in touch with the family. We’ve got the identity of the culprits who were now on the run and will soon succeed in catching them. We have no knowledge about the repeated visits by the deceased’s family to the police station.”
However, the family claimed that we have been visiting the police station several times in the last 45 days.
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