Berhampur : Berhampur police have solved the year-old murder case of a woman at a lodge in Goilundi in Ganjam district, Odisha, by arresting the accused from a Kerala jail. He was behind the bars in connection with a ganja smuggling case. Identified as Samidaman AS, he was brought to Odisha by police on transit remand and the crime scene recreated on Tuesday.
According to the SP, Berhampur, M Saravana Vivek, on November 25, 2023, the body of 35-year-old K. Krishnaveni, a resident of Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, was found in a room at a lodge under Baidyanathpur police station. Preliminary investigations revealed that she had been staying with the accused, who posed as her husband. However, he fled before the body was found. The autopsy report confirmed that she was strangled to death and the police registered a case of murder. As investigations began, the accused was identified and police proceedings began to arrest him, the SP informed.
After months of evasion, Samidaman was traced to Kerala, where he was arrested in a separate ganja smuggling case. Berhampur police coordinated with Thrissur police to secure his custody. The accused was presented in court, granted transit remand, and brought back to Odisha.