Bachansudha murder: Police take security guard on 5-day remand

--Police to crack down on unlicensed security agencies

BHUBANESWAR: The Commissionerate Police took security guard Dipti Ranjan Pattanayak, the lone accused in the broad daylight murder of business woman Bachansudha Pattanayak on September 11 in the city, on 5-day remand from Tuesday.

The police had requested the Bhubaneswar SDJM court to take the accused on remand to scour out more information from him about the murder of the managing director of Madhukan Finance. After getting permission from the court to take the security guard on remand, the police would ask him about the involvement of more persons in the crime as the victim’s family members have been alleging involvement of more than one person in the crime.

“If needed, we can go for DNA test of the blood stained shirt to know whether more persons were involved in the crime or not,” said Commissioner Police Dr RP Sharma. Mobile call details of the guard will be taken as evidence, he added.

The police would bring all witnesses including Dipti Ranjan’s girlfriend, his relatives at Nimapada, the doctor who treated him at Khurda and his friend at whose house he left his bicycle after allegedly committing the murder under the ambit of the police investigation, police sources said.

The case against Dipti Ranjan under Laxmisagar police station would be reopened to examine the gravity of the case and to confirm that the security guard had criminal antecedents or not, said the top cop.      

Meanwhile, Dr Sharma would hold a discussion with the license bearing security agencies on September 19 regarding choosing of good candidates as security guard and proper data of the guard they would appoint in their agencies. The security agencies having no valid license would face police ire, said the sources.