Police on Sunday arrested the accused ex-boyfriend of a 20-year-old woman, who died following self-immolation at her residence in Pattamundai area of Odisha’s Kendrapara district earlier this week.
Kendrapara Superintendent of Police (SP), Siddharth Kataria, speaking to media, on Sunday stated that a case was registered based on the complaint of the victim’s father at the Pattamundai Rural police station.
The accused ex-boyfriend has been identified as Pramod Kumar Behera. He was booked under various sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita Act, including Sections 75 (sexual harassment), 78 (stalking) 108 (abetment to suicide) and the IT Act.
SP Kataria said that police arrested Behera on Sunday and seized a mobile phone from him. The cops also found approximately 60 obscene videos. He also told that the policemen had earlier also seized the mobile phone of the father of the deceased.
“Following forensic team examination, we found prima facie evidence and forwarded the accused to court. We found around 60 obscene videos and on July 17, the accused had sent one obscene video to the deceased’s father. He also made the video viral by sending the same to four to five other persons. Through Call Detail Records analysis, we found the accused had telephoned the deceased several times in the morning on August 6. The accused messaged five to six times to the victim on August 5,” SP Kataria said.
SP Kataria also revealed that the post-mortem report and other scientific analysis report will exactly describe whether the girl had committed suicide or was killed by anyone.
As per reports, the parents and other family members of the girl were away when she allegedly committed suicide by setting herself on fire on August 6, allegedly after being blackmailed by her former boyfriend Pramod Behera.
According to the victim’s father, his daughter had been in a relationship with a youth. After they broke up, the accused began harassing her, sending obscene photos, and threatening to kill her, which led her to take the extreme step.
