In what was initially suspected to be death due to an accident has now turned into a murder. Such a twist has now come to the fore in the Bolangir youth Rajat Kumar Pradhan’s death case.
Preliminary investigation indicates that Rajat was murdered over some love affair. The development came a day after hundreds of Aainlachuan villagers gheraoed the SP office here and demanded a proper investigation into the case by the Sadar police.
It is pertinent to mention here that Rajat went missing on June 23. Later, his body was recovered from the railway line near Khujen Pali village the next day. A case was subsequently registered by the Government Railway Police (GRP).
However, the family members and villagers alleged that Rajat was allegedly kidnapped and later killed by some people. His body was dumped near the railway tracks to mislead investigation and give it a shape of an accident or suicide.
The matter took a new turn when a shirt of the deceased Rajat was recovered from a tree recently. Following the protest by the villagers, Sadar Police took over the investigation of the case on the directions of the SP.