Murderer Returns Home Due To Lockdown Only To Be Nabbed By Police In Odisha’s Jagatsinghpur

Jagatsinghpur: Something good in every evil. The lockdown due to coronavirus helped Jagatsinghpur police to nab a murder accused on Sunday. He had been on the run since the last seven years. The accused, Rama Chandra Sethi of Ogalpur, was nabbed after he was forced to return to his village due to the lockdown.

According to police sources, Sethi had been begging on the Grand Road in Puri for the last several years. However, after Puri police evicted the beggars from the area as part of the lockdown measures, he came back to Ogalpur.

On getting information, Jagatsinghpur police raided his house and arrested him. Jagatsinghpur IIC Rajanikant Mishra said Sethi was absconding since the last seven years. The police were unable to trace him as he was not using a mobile phone. 

Sethi was produced in court and remanded to judicial custody. On May 10, 2013, Sethi, an alcoholic, had murdered his wife on May 10, 2013 in a fit of rage. He had fled after attacking her with a chopper in a fit of rage.