In a shocking incident in Odisha's Gajapati district, the police arrested a class 8 girl student and her two male friends for allegedly murdering the girl's adoptive mother.
Reportedly, the accused fabricated a story claiming Rajalaxmi had died of a heart attack after committing the crime.
In a shocking incident in Odisha's Gajapati district, the police arrested a class 8 girl student and her two male friends for allegedly murdering the girl's adoptive mother.
As per reports, the deceased woman had adopted the girl after rescuing her from a roadside when she was just three days old.
The motive behind the killing was allegedly her opposition to the girl바카라™s relationship with the two other accused and to gain control of her property, PTI reported.
According to police, the girl and her friends smothered the woman. She was identified as 54-year-old Rajalaxmi Kar and was found dead at her rented house in Paralakhemundi town on April 29.
PTI reported that the accused fabricated a story claiming Rajalaxmi had died of a heart attack after committing the crime.
The next day, April 30, they cremated her body in Bhubaneswar, where some of her relatives resided.
Due to Rajalaxmi's history of heart disease, her family, including her brother, believed the fabricated story, Gajapati SP Jatindra Kumar Panda said.
According to PTI, the truth came to light when the girl바카라™s uncle found her hidden mobile phone in Bhubaneswar, which contained Instagram Messenger chats with the two co-accused detailing their plan to murder Rajalaxmi and loot over 70 grams of gold ornaments along with Rs 60,000 in cash.
Following the discovery, Siba Prasad Mishra, the deceased바카라™s brother, lodged an FIR at Paralakhemundi police station last Wednesday.
A police investigation led to the arrest of the three accused 바카라” temple priest Ganesh Rath (21), Dinesh Sahu (20), both from Paralakhemundi, and the deceased바카라™s 13-year-old adopted daughter.
Police said Rajalaxmi had adopted the girl after rescuing her as an abandoned infant in Bhubaneswar.
After the girl got admission at Kendriya Vidyalaya in Paralakhemundi, the two shifted there and were staying in a rented house.
Recently, the girl developed a relationship with Rath and Sahu, which her mother opposed.
Rath allegedly instigated the girl to murder Rajalaxmi to seize her property and continue their relationship.
On the evening of April 29, the girl reportedly administered sleeping pills to Rajalaxmi.
Once she was unconscious, she summoned her two friends, who smothered the woman with pillows. They later took her to a hospital, where she was declared dead, police added.
Before the murder, the girl had given some of Rajalaxmi바카라™s gold ornaments to Rath, who pawned them at a private finance company for around Rs 2.4 lakh.
He reportedly used the money to buy a motorcycle and travel across the state.
During investigation, police recovered three mobile phones containing incriminating Instagram chat messages, two pillows used in the murder, and around 30 grams of the looted gold ornaments, police added.