ROURKELA: Under Rourkela Police District (RPD), a youth killed his father who had been released from jail with a sharp weapon at Bhalupatra village of Brahmani Tarang (BT) police limits, about a 10 kms from Rourkela city, in the wee hours of Monday.
Police identified the accused son as Bishnu Verma (22) and attributed the murder to a revenge killing as the deceased father, Kranti Kumar Verma (55) had earlier killed his wife for which he spent a long time in jail.
The latest crime came as another shock with Rourkela city in Sundargarh district alone witnessing three murders and one culpable homicide in back to back succession in four days from April 9 - 12.
Rourkela SP Nitesh Wadhwani informed that the man succumbed at the spot to a deep cut injury in his head inflicted from a sharp weapon. He said the deceased man had returned from jail in December 2024, and the accused son confessed that he killed his father on the village road in revenge for killing his mother.
The SP said according to the accused son his father was aggressive and a pervert. The accused told the investigators that his father, after returning from jail, used to behave violently with him and was also found harassing village women on different points in time.
His combined anger and hatred towards his father imploded into the crime, he said.
Before the crime, Wadhwani said, the father and son had a fierce quarrel. As per preliminary investigation the accused son was working as daily wager and his criminal antecedent, if any, is getting verified.
He said more than a decade ago the deceased had killed his wife for which he was in jail till December 2024 and the case details are also being analysed.
Sources said the villagers on Monday morning was shocked after tracing Verma’s body lying in a pool of blood on the village road about 500 meters away from his house.
Chikatmati Sarpanch Lalita Ekka said she received a call from a villager about the murder and accordingly informed police.
A police team led by Panposh SDPO Ambit Mohanty with a scientific team seized the body and also detained the accused son.
About the back-to-back four murders and one culpable homicide in five days, shaking the conscious of the society, the SP said four of the five crimes had taken place over personal reasons where police have little preventive roles.
"In all these crimes police took prompt actions and arrested the accused persons. Only the murder of a youth during group clash at the VSS market complex at Rourkela city under Chhend police limits was a law and order issue. Police have arrested most of the accused and taken stringent actions to create deterrence against criminals," he added.