Odisha police on hunt for woman who gave contract to kill her husband

The police raided an apartment in Bhubaneswar and arrested the man’s driver, who is alleged to be his wife’s paramour.

Updated on: Apr 23, 2022, 09:29:50 IST

By Debabrata Mohanty

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A woman who allegedly paid a supari of ₹1 lakh to a contract killer to eliminate her husband, who is a senior railway official, in Bhubaneswar last week is on the run after the plan did not materialise, police said on Friday.

The woman allegedly paid a supari of ₹1 lakh to a contract killer to eliminate her husband. (Representational Image)

Binayak Behera, who works as a senior section engineer at Mancheswar Railway Workshop of East Coast Railway zone in Bhubaneswar, suffered grievous injuries on Saturday last when he was attacked by two young men during his evening walk. The duo who came on a bike assaulted him with a steel pipe, but he escaped after local people gathered around him hearing his shrieks.

When Behera lodged a complaint against his wife Silsila Behera, his driver Ashok Sahu and another person at Mancheswar police station, police raided an apartment in the city and arrested Sahu, alleged to be the woman’s paramour. In the apartment, the woman had been staying with her alleged paramour for about a month in a different name. Police said the railway official’s wife and their driver became closer when he was transferred to Puri in 2018.

Inspector of Mancheswar police station, Sudhir Kumar Sahoo said preliminary investigation revealed that the railway official’s wife had conspired to kill him through hired killers. “The driver has spilled the beans about the conspiracy. Once his wife is arrested, the picture would be clearer,” he said.

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Debabrata Mohanty
Debabrata Mohanty is a senior assistant editor of Hindustan Times who works as state correspondent from Odisha covering the state's politics, governance, public policy, natural disasters, environment and its society for close to three decades. With his long years of reporting from the state capital of Bhubaneswar, Mohanty has been known as one of the most experienced and credible journalists covering Odisha for the national English dailies. His reporting combines on-ground detail with deep institutional knowledge detailing the state's changing politics, governance issues, administrative reforms and the functioning of its public institutions. He has regularly reported on issues ranging from legislative developments and public policy implementation. Politics is his core areas of expertise as he closely tracks Odisha's political landscape, including the rise and transformation of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), the Biju Janata Dal (BJD), the two principal political parties in Odisha. His long association with the state's political establishment enables him to write on contemporary developments in a larger political context. Mohanty takes a deep interest in writing human interest stories, environmental issues and documenting the impact of cyclones, floods, heatwaves, and other climate-related events in one of the most disaster-prone states. His coverage extends to public health, governance reforms and stories on accountability of government institutions. Before joining Hindustan Times, Mohanty worked with The Indian Express, Mail Today, and The Telegraph, where he covered at least six general elections and as many assembly elections. In 2007, he was selected for the prestigious Chevening Young Indian Print Journalist Programme at the University of Lincoln, United Kingdom, where he received advanced training in print journalism. In 2009 he won the Press Institute of India-International Committee of Red Cross award on conflict reporting for his on-ground reportage of 2008 Kandhamal riots.Read More

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