Dhenkanal, March 5:Dhenkanal police on Tuesday apprehended two youths in connection with the brutal murder of a minor girl student of Dhenkanal Women’s College.
The accused have been identified as Narayan Sahu, cousin brother of the deceased and one Bijay Behera, a close friend of Narayan.
Dhenkanal SP Madkar Sandeep Sampat in a press briefing said, a +2 first year girl student belonging to Mangalpur village was brutally killed by miscreants. Based on the complaint of the deceased’s father, the police had initiated an investigation in this connection. Subsequently, two accused were apprehended following the verification of the CCTV footage.
Elaborating the modus of operandi of the two youths, the SP said the girl was bludgeoned to death with striking rocks on her head, for previous enmity relating to land dispute in the family.
Worth mentioning, the minor girl’s body was recovered from a pool of blood beside the Dhenkanal-Bhapur road a few days ago.