Odisha: Accused in VSSUT student's death case to face polygraph test today

The accused in the case were detained on March 2 after the complaint was lodged in the case by the deceased's parents claiming that their daughter was murdered.

Bhubaneswar:The two accused in the death of a final-year engineering student of Veer Surendra Sai University of Technology (VSSUT), whose body was found earlier this week near Sambalpur's PC bridge will face a lie-detection test in connection with the case, the police said on Saturday. The deceased, who hailed from Madanpur Rampur in Kalahandi district, was a student at the institution and had travelled to college on Tuesday to attend the convocation ceremony. According to the complaint lodged by the girl's family members, she was supposed to return home at around 10 pm the same evening, but did not.

The girl's body was recovered from the power channel using boats on Wednesday morning after she allegedly jumped to her death from the PC bridge of the Hirakud dam. In the complaint, meanwhile, the parents alleged that their daughter was murdered. Following this, a case was registered under IPC sections 201, 302 and 34 at the Burla police station.

Subsequently, two male students on Thursday were detained by cops in connection with the incident. The accused were identified as Pritiman Dey and Manas Tudu. They will undergo narco-analysis test as well as polygraph tests today, said reports. There have been so far no comments from the police on the issue.

Meanwhile, a tragic incident came to light on Friday from Uttar Pradesh's Maharajganj wherein a man strangled his six-month-old daughter over a family dispute. The grisly scene lay bare before the accused's wife when she returned home in the wee hours of the day after checking on her mother-in-law and found her daughter lying on the bed, lifeless, said the police.