The Odisha Police cracked a mysterious homicide case involving a 35-year-old girl, because of a tailor’s tag on a bloodstained shirt found close to the crime scene. This lead ultimately led to the arrest of three people, in line with officers.
On December 13, authorities discovered the lady’s physique on the banks of the Kathjodi river within the Kandarpur police station space of Cuttack, PTI reported.
For the reason that identification of the deceased girl couldn’t be decided and no lacking individual report had been filed throughout the state, the police needed to recuperate the weapon used within the crime—a chopper.
Cuttack DCP Jagmohan Meena described the case as a major problem for the investigation staff.
Regardless of the presence of tattoos on each arms of the deceased, which didn’t assist in identification, authorities did discover bloodstained clothes—particularly a shirt and pants—close to the riverbank the place the physique was found.
Meena revealed that each items of clothes bore a tag labeled ‘New Star Tailors.’
The police then targeted their investigation on the tailor tag, figuring out round 10 tailors in Odisha with the identical or comparable names. They verified these tailors and in contrast the tag designs with the one discovered on the shirt and pants recovered from the crime scene.
Nonetheless, no matches had been present in Odisha. It was solely when a tailor from the Ganjam district knowledgeable the police that such tags are utilized in Gujarat that the investigation took a brand new path, the senior police officer defined.
Officers from Cuttack reached out to the Gujarat police, who tracked down the tailor in Surat metropolis. The tailor’s tag quantity ‘3833’ matched, and additional investigation revealed that the shirt was stitched for an individual named ‘Babu.’
“There was no different element out there. Nonetheless, the tailor gave one necessary clue that he needed to return ₹100 to the client ‘Babu’ however he didn’t have the change. So, he transferred ₹100 on the e-wallet of 1 cellular quantity. That quantity was contacted and it was discovered that he’s a pal of ‘Babu’,” Meena mentioned.
Babu was recognized as 27-year-old Jaganath Duhuri, also referred to as Babu or Bapi from Kendrapada. “It was discovered that he (Babu) was going again to Surat by practice. The practice was passing by Rayagada when he was nabbed,” Meena added.
Throughout interrogation, Babu revealed that he was the deceased girl’s brother-in-law. He additionally confessed to committing the crime with the assistance of his brother Balaram Duhuri (the lady’s husband) and cousin Hapi Duhuri.
All three people have been arrested, in line with the police.
“Balaram Duhuri was the husband of the deceased girl. The motive of the crime is a power marital dispute between the deceased and her husband. Balaram was doubting that the deceased was having an extra-marital affair with somebody,” DCP Meena mentioned.
