Odisha Youth On Run After Killing Ex-Girlfriend Consumes Poison Before Arrest

Bhadrak/Balasore: A youth, accused of brutally killing his ex-girlfriend, allegedly attempted to end his life by consuming poison before being arrested by police in Odisha’s Balasore district on Wednesday.

Biswaranjan Puhan (25), who had been on the run since murdering 25-year-old Jyotirmayee Rana at Lingapada village in Soro area on February 24, was apprehended at Dhalasahi under Basudevpur police limits in Bhadrak district.

After committing the crime, he kept changing locations to evade arrest and panicked and consumed poison on seeing the police, which then rushed him to a hospital at Basudevpur. He was shifted to the district headquarters hospital in Bhadrak for further treatment.

Biswaranjan had allegedly slit her throat when she refused to accept his marriage proposal. She was then alone at home. The victim’s mother, an Anganwadi worker, found her lying unconscious with her throat slit on returning home. This came three days after Jyotirmayeefiled a complaint at Soro police station against the ex-boyfriend after he started threatening her for rejecting his proposal.

“Had the police taken proper action, my daughter would have been alive today,” Manoranjan Rana, the victim’s father who works as a cycle mechanic, had then told the media.

THE TRAGIC LOVE STORY

Jyotirmayee and Biswaranjan fell in love while studying at Upendra Nath College in Soro. They later moved to Bengaluru, where Jyotirmayee worked as a supervisor at a security company, while Biswaranjan took a job as a delivery boy for a food aggregator. However, their relationship soured due to Biswaranjan’s alcohol addiction and Jyotirmayee returned to Odisha after breaking up with him.

She later took up a job at a private firm in Bhubaneswar. Biswaranjan began harassing her and repeatedly pressured her to marry him when she moved back to her native places, about two months ago.