The suspected killer who chopped a Bengaluru woman’s body into more than 50 pieces and stuffed the body parts into a fridge, allegedly committed suicide in Bhadrak district of Odisha.
He was found hanging from a tree in a village in Bhadrak district.
Before committing suicide the Odisha man identified as Mukti Ranjan Ray told his family about the crime and allegedly claimed that the woman – Mahalakshmi – and her brothers used to thrash him and extort money from him, said a report by Hindustan Times.
On Thursday, Mukti’s younger brother told reporters that his brother confessed to the murder and that he chopped her body after an initial plan to pass her death as a suicide did not work, said the report.
“My brother was with me for the last 9-10 days. After staying for 3 days, he confessed to killing Mahalakshmi. He told me that Mahalakshmi used to blackmail him and extorted money from him,” the younger brother was quoted as saying by the report.
Mukti had blamed Mahalakshmi for messing up his life, he added.
Before Mukti died, he had visited his mother on Tuesday. She said he was tense when he came home, said the report.
The maggot-infested body of Mahalakshmi, chopped into several pieces and stuffed into the fridge, was found by her mother and elder sister at her Vyalikaval home on Saturday.
The deceased woman’s estranged husband on Sunday expressed suspicion about the involvement of a man known to Mahalakshmi, who had been living alone, in her neighbourhood.
“He kept on saying that the girl has destroyed our family,” Mukti’s brother said.
“He wanted to marry her and was taking her on a bike to Kerala. However, she accused him of kidnapping and got him thrashed by the public. The public beat him up badly and handed him over to the police. He was also beaten by the cops and left after he gave ₹1,000 bribe. The woman’s brother along with his friends had also threatened to kill my brother. So, out of rage, he held her neck and choked her. After realising that she died, he initially tried to hang her body to pass her death as a suicide. However, he could not hang her and hence chopped it into pieces and put it in the fridge before fleeing to Odisha,” he added.
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