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Bhubaneswar, July 10: The 24-year-old woman who killed her husband in cold blood and buried his body in the backyard of her rented house in Mancheswar area two weeks ago was arrested Sunday.
Deepanjali Mohanty, who had been absconding for the past few days, was nabbed from Nimapada, said Mancheswar police. The dark crime of the woman, mother of a five-year-old boy, had come to light Saturday when police, acting on a tip-off, searched her rented house and exhumed the body that she had buried in a five-ft-deep pit under several layers of soil and plaster.
Police said Deepanjali confessed having killed her husband, Ashok Das (29), June 26 and burying the body at their house in Dhirikuti Basti, where they had been living for the last three months. Deepanjali told journalists that she had married Ashok five years back and that he had started physically assaulting her in an inebriated state three months after their marriage.
“He (Ashok) thrashed me and my child mercilessly in an inebriated state June 26 morning. After he got unconscious at 11 AM, I tied his hands and legs with the cot he was lying on. I then hit his head with a crowbar several times. I dug a pit in the house and buried his body. It took me several hours to dig the pit,” Deepanjali was quoted as having told police.
Police said she poured soil on Ashok’s body after laying it in the pit and plastered the pit in a bid to stop emission of foul smell. “We have traced the murder weapon and Ashok’s blood-stained clothes near his residence. Deepanjali maintains that no one had accompanied her in this gruesome murder. We are investigating the matter further,” said a police official.
A case (190/16) was registered in this regard and Deepanjali was produced in a court Sunday.
According to a local named Upendra Behera, Ashok and Deepanjali had been living with their five-year-old son on rent in a thatched house belonging to Benudhar Das for the last three months. “A couple of days back, Deepa shifted her belongings to Benudhar’s house, which is nearby. We did not see Ashok for some days after that, and we felt suspicious about it. We then informed police,” said another local to this newspaper.
