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Elderly woman’s killer held in Surat
In Short
Odisha Police, in a joint operation with Surat and Vadodara authorities, apprehends caretaker Balabhadra Maharana for the murder and robbery of 76-year-old Kunjalata Nanda in Bhubaneswar’s Laxmisagar area.
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Elderly woman’s killer held in Surat
Bhubaneswar: Odisha Police arrested a man in Surat, who was accused of killing a 76-year-old woman at her residence here on the night of November 3, an officer said on Thursday. The man used to look after the elderly woman living alone in Laxmisagar area of Bhubaneswar.
Laxmisagar police arrested the accused, Balabhadra Maharana, on Wednesday in coordination with the authorities in the Gujarat city. 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 reside in different locations in Bhubaneswar.
On the morning of November 4, the tenant family found no response from the landlady to their repeated calls and doorbells. 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, the police found that the caretaker fled on a scooter with jewellery and other valuables on November 3 and had remained absconding since then.
Police had received information that he was in Surat, said Surat Deputy Commissioner of Police (Crime) B P Rojiya. “The Surat Crime Branch and Vadodara Rural Special Operations Group launched a joint operation on Tuesday and apprehended Maharana near Krishna Hotel in Karjan,” he said.
The accused used different mobile numbers and frequently changed his location to evade arrest, but was finally nabbed before he could flee to Delhi as per his plans. Maharana allegedly strangled Nanda with the intention of committing robbery and fled with Rs 32,000 in cash and 50 to 60 grams of gold jewelry. He first fled to Ludhiana in Punjab before travelling to Surat.
