they killed the child for witnessing their illicit affairs

It costs life to a six year boy for accidently witness the illicit relation of his neighbor lady with her paramount. His fault was that he came out with the truth before his parents and other people. Such a heinous incident of killing an innicent child was taken place in Bhikhampur under Sasan police station limits which made public only after confession of the accused persons leading the police to recover the skeleton body of child on Thursday. The accused persons including the husband of the lady had thrown the dead body of the child after throttling him 10 days back. A missing complaint was lodged by the police than. Police identified the skeleton body belongs to one Jitu Meher (6) who went missing since 28th June.

“We arrested one Hrusikesh after we suspected his hand in killing the child. During interrogation, he had confessed every thing. He along with his wife and her paramount hatched a plan to eliminate the child after he witnessed the illicit relation of his wife. Accused Hrusikesh led us to the spot where  skeleton body of the child was recovered”, SDPO (Sambalpur) D K Deo said.

Sources said, deceased a 6 years old child, the only son of Tapobanta Meher of Sonepur’s Dhanbasha village was residing  in  Bipin Meher's house in Bhikhampur after they moved to the village few months ago.  The other side of the house was let out to Hrusikesh Behera allies Theki of Bijadihi who was residing with his wife and son. Both Tapobanta and Hrusikesh were engaged as daily wage earner.

Recently Hrusikesh underwent a surgical treatment for which he got financial help from Pintu Mehra, a poultry farm owner of the village. Because of the help, Pintu was bit closed to the Hrusikesh family. Pintu developed illicit relation with Hrusikesh’s wife after he started visiting the house. Hrusikesh kew it but remained silent because of the financial help. But this thing came to the knolwdge of the villagers when deceaed  narrated before his parents and other villagers . “It made them angry and they decided to kill the boy in order to take revenge on him”, SDPO Deo said. They hatched a plan and cunningly took the boy to near by jungle where they throttling him to death and dumped the body inside a ditch., police officer added.