Ex-Odisha MLA ‘Murdered’ Woman For Insisting On Marriage, Share In Property

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Bhubaneswar: Expelled BJD leader and ex-MLA Anup Sai had allegedly plotted to kill Kalpana Das (35) with whom he had an illicit relationship from 2011-16 when she insisted on marriage and a share in his property.

These startling revelations were made by Chhattisgarh Police on Friday in connection with the murder of a mother-daughter duo in 2016. Sai was arrested on Thursday after 18 hours of interrogation by the police of the neighbouring state, where the bodies were dumped after the murder.

According to police sources, the former MLA took the mother-daughter duo to a forest on the way to Raigarh. He then brutally assaulted them with an iron rod and ran a vehicle over them to conceal their identities.

The postmortem report of the deceased had revealed that the duo was first hit with a blunt object and then run over by a vehicle. It took police almost a year to ascertain their identity, said Raigarh SP Santosh Kumar, adding that Sai had confessed to the crime.

A constable of Odisha police, a relative of the deceased, had identified them. A case (158/16 ) was registered at Chakradhar Nagar police station under section 302 of IPC on May 7, 2016, the sources said

Though police had found evidence against the ex-MLA in 2017, it took them four years to arrest him.

During the investigation, 700 people across six states, including Odisha, West Bengal, Chhattisgarh, Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, were interrogated, the Raigarh SP said. The needle of suspicion turned towards Sai while the mobile number of Kalpana was being traced, he added.

The former MLA was later sent to jail after Raigarh court in Chhattisgarh rejected his bail plea.