Elderly Woman Found Dead In School Toilet In Odisha’s Jajpur

Jajpur: An elderly woman was found dead in the toilet of a school under mysterious circumstances in Odisha’s Jajpur district on Monday.

As per reports, the woman, identified as Binodini Sahoo of Madhusudanpur village under Binjharpur police limits in the district, had left her house for plucking flowers to perform puja in the morning. But she did not return home till late on the day.

Concerned over her whereabout, Binodini’s family members started searching for her in the village. They enquired from the villagers and also relatives outside the village. But they could not trace her.

Later, somebody found her dead inside the toilet of a nodal school and informed the family and police.

A team from Binjharpur police station along with a scientific team went to the spot and sent the body for post-mortem. They also registered a case and started investigation.

Binodini’s younger brother Nagen Kumar Sahoo told the media that it was a habit of his sister to go out in the morning to pluck flowers everyday. She was also getting the flowers from the school premises.

Suspecting that she might be murdered, he said, “Binodini’s body bears injury marks and her gold ornaments are missing. Some miscreant might have looted the ornaments by attacking her. After she died, he dumped the body in the school toilet.”