Bhubaneswar: The Commissionerate police on Saturday cracked the high-profile and sensational murder case of a doctor couple in Sailashree Vihar area here and arrested three persons in connection with the case.
Addressing the media, Police commissioner RP Sharma said Kishore Behera alias Timpa (44), Mohd Kamal Khan alias Munna (22) and Munna’s wife Phulsari Behera alias Nini (36) were arrested by the special squad of the commissionerate police.
Sharma stated while Munna and Nini were arrested from Tangi area in Cuttack, Timpa was nabbed from a roadside eatery in Gopalpur (Ganjam). Two other accused Tikina and her husband Jaban Nayak are still on the run, he added.
“All three arrested will be forwarded to court today. Involvement of more persons in the ghastly crime, if any, will be revealed after their interrogation,” he said adding a three-day remand of the accused will be sought before the court.
Giving details about the modus operandi of the incident, Sharma said all five had hatched a plan to loot the couple, Dr Prafulla and Sushama Mishra taking advantage of their age and loneliness. Two sons of the Mishras are staying at different locations in the city.
“On the fateful day of November 15, Nini and Tikina, who were working as maids in the doctor’s house, helped the others to commit the crime. They first attacked Sushama who was in the kitchen after performing puja in a nearby temple and later throttled Prafulla to death. After the cold-blooded murder, they decamped with Rs 40,000 in cash, gold jewellery, and four mobile phones,” the commisoner stated.
To escape from the clutches of the police, the culprits moved to Ichhapuram via Balugaon and Berhampur the same day, he said.
“They distributed the cash and jewellery among themselves and moved to different locations in two groups. While Tikina, Jaban and Timpa went to Tamil Nadu, Munna and Nini after spending some days in Hyderabad returned to Tangi area in Choudwar from where we nabbed them,” Sharma said.
Talking about the movement of Timpa, a dreaded and wanted criminal against whom about 14 cases are pending with Berhampur police, the official said the former kept changing locations in Tamil Nadu to evade police eyes.
“We nabbed him from a roadside dhaba near Gopalpur after chasing him for about 25 km,” he said.