By Our Correspondent
BERHAMPUR: On 9.8.1995 one Harihara Pattjoshi (23) from Berhampur who was married to one Indira (21) from Chennai murdered his mother in law , Rama (48) at their Nangnallur residence in Chennai. He had also attacked his wife and brother in law , Karthik (24) with the same knife used for murder and both of them were grievously injured.
A murder case was registered at S:8 Adambakkam police station on 9.8.1995 and investigated. Immediately after the murder accused Harihara Pattjoshi escaped from Chennai and absconded.
The accused was working at a printing press in an advertisement company in Chennai and his wife Indira was working as a Telemarketing executive in another company in Chennai. They met due to work related assignment and fell in love and got married in 14.7.1994.
But few months after marriage , the couple separated due to domestic violence and Indira filed for divorce in local court. This enraged accused Harihara Pattjoshi and on the day of murder he attacked his wife , mother in law and brother in law. While the mother in law died on 9.8.1995 his wife and brother in law were severely injured.
Since 1995 , the accused was hiding in various locations throughout Odisha and also in Surat. Initially he was hiding in a friend’s house in Aska where he met another woman and married her in 2001. Later he worked in a masala factory in Berhampur, later as a sales man in a Bajaj insurance company in Kendrapara, later as a manager in chit fund company in Berhampur. He had shifted many houses.
Multiple police teams have camped and conducted raid at Berhampur and nearby places over the last 28 years but he could not be arrested.
Around one week back a four member police team from Chennai , Adambakkam police station under SI Kannan along with HC Balamurugan , PC Edwin Deepak, PC Manivannan reached Gosaninuagaon PS of Berhampur police district.
A team was formed under Gosaninuagaon IIC, Inspector Smruti consisting SI Gyana Ranjan Behera, C/287 P K Panda, C/797 Jyoti k Devi, OAPF Phenyl Sabar, OAPF K Madhab, OAPFA Sabar, HG Santhosh K Padhi, Constable K P Samanta, OAPF S Bhuyan, HG MM Gouda.
The police team worked in close coordination and watched all suspeced locations. After a gruelling one week , police team were able to find the accused person hiding in a location under Gosaninuagaon PS area. He was apprehended while he was trying to escape again near the railway station.
The accused got married in 2001 and he has a daughter from him second wedding. Accused wife was running a cloth store near Andaparasa chak.
