SIT Cracks Nayagarh Pari Murder Case, Claims Bothra

Bhubaneswar: In a major achivement, the Special Investigation Team (SIT) led by Arun Bothra has claimed to have cracked the sensational case of sexual assault and murder of 5-year-old girl Pari at Jadupur village in Nayagarh district.

Adressing a press conference,  Bothra has ascertained the involvement of Saroj Sethy and spoke in detail about the scientific evidences that SIT collected.

Bothra said a frock of the girl that was found beside the body packed in a gunny bag had semen stain on it. All the circumstancial evidence indicated towards rape/sexual assault, the police official said.

He had deleted all Google search history on the device except one tab entitled ‘How to delete search history’, the police official said.

According to Bothra, the reaction of the accused was ‘aggressive’ while he was being questioned in connection with the case and it intensified after he was informed that semen stain was found on the frock.

Secondly,  Saroj had also did not agreed to undergo polygraph test without any hesitation.

The SIT chief also said that the accused strangulated the girl to death and tried to have sexual intercourse with the corpse, but could not. However, he discharged semen on the frock of the girl, Bothra said.

Giving detail about the sequence of the events, Bothra said, Pari had gone to Saroj’s house, about 100 metre away from her house, at around 10.30 to 10.40 AM on July 14 to have berries. On the fateful day, Saroj was alone in his house. Finding her alone that day, Saroj took her to a room and removed her frock. Later, when he was about to remove her leggings, she resisted and started to scream. As she opposed the act, Saroj strangulated her to death.