Bachansudha Murder: Security guard held, confesses murder for robbery

--It’s pre-meditated crime, says DCP

BHUBANESWAR: Finally after three days of manhunt, the special squad of the Commissionerate Police arrested security guard Dipti Ranjan Pattanayak who was the prime suspect of the broad daylight murder of 53-year-old business woman Bachansudha Pattanayak at Sabar Sahi of Rasulgarh area in the city. The security guard has confessed before the police on Saturday that he killed Bachansudha while committing robbery in the house.

The accused was arrested from the city on Friday night. The Manchswar police interrogated him and he was taken to the crime spot on Saturday morning. During interrogation, he confessed to the crime, said Bhubaneswar DCP Nitinjit Singh. 

“We have seized some belongings from the accused. He is only the person involved in the case. He had robbed foreign currency along with Indian currency Rs 5,000 from deceased’s vanity bag after committing the crime, but no diamond necklace has been recovered from the accused,” said the DCP, adding, “He had thrown the foreign currency fearing police arrest when he was absconding.”

Singh brought the accused to the spot to know how the crime took place on the day. The accused, after entering the deceased’s house, described the police about how he proceeded from security post to kitchen and how he assaulted the business woman on the fateful day.

“It was a pre-meditated crime with an intention of robbery which took 20-30 minutes,” said Singh, adding, “When he came on duty on Wednesday, he had come fully prepared to commit the crime.”

According to the sources, on the day of the incident, Dipti came to the duty at 10am instead of coming at 6am. Bachansudha got irritated on him for coming in late and informed to the head of the Rajendra Security Services who had sent him on duty.

After the incident, Dipti became angry and came outside. At 12.30 pm, he returned to the residence in a drunken stage and went to the upper floor by climbing left side of the building. He entered to the kitchen room where Bachansudha was cooking. He rushed to the room and attacked from the back side of the old woman. When she turned back, the security guard choked her mouth with the help of his right hand.

The business woman then bit his right thumb and protested. During a scuffle, the security guard stabbed her in a household knife. He stabbed repeatedly at her neck, shoulders and then front side of her face. When Bachansudha was howling for help, Dipti scratched her head against wall. While she was on pool of blood in the house, he left the house with a vanity bag.

After taking the money from the vanity bag, he threw that bag away, which had a mobile, in a drain near the residence. At the same time he changed his dress and threw away his blood stained inner and T-shirt in the drain. He came out of the house wearing his uniform, but when he saw a PCR van he again returned to the building and washed his blood to avoid any suspicion from the outside public.

He after few minutes left the residence and went Khurda by hiring an auto-rickshaw. He rushed to a hospital for treatment of his right thumb. He registered his name in a pseudo name to avoid police eye.

Later he went to his aunt’s house at Nimapada and then Nayagarh to avoid police arrest. Again the accused returned to Bhubaneswar where he was caught.

Meanwhile, the police have ruled out the connection of the gill whom the accused had telephoned after the crime. The police may take stringent action against the unlicenced security agencies in the city after the incident, said the police sources.