Bhubaneswar: The postmortem report of Gobinda Sahu, the prime accused in the 2021 school teacher Mamita Meher murder case, has indicated that it was a case of suicide.
The postmortem was conducted in Kantabanji hospital with the assistance of doctors of VIMSAR, Burla, and the Crime Branch received the report on Saturday.
The CB had earlier seized the DVDs consisting of photographs and videos of Sahu’s inquest and postmortem, reports said.
On Saturday, the agency’s officers also visited Sahu’s house at Mahaling in Kalahandi district and Mahaling Anchalika College, where he was the principal, and seized the governing body’s resolutions register. Besides questioning his wife and daughter, they seized an old notebook of Sahu. A few staff of the college, including the governing body’s secretary Kiran Kumar Singh and clerk Josabant Bagh, and some villagers of Mahaling, including Santosh Kumar Sahu and Tarini Sahu, were also questioned.
Notably, Sahu was found hanging at Kantabanji sub-jail in Balangir district on December 20 before a court appearance.
