He allegedly had all of it meticulously deliberate. He was to lure the 18-year-old girl who had beforehand accused him of rape, take her to a secluded spot to kill her, minimize her physique into tiny items and throw them into two water our bodies. What he hadn’t bargained for was synthetic intelligence serving to to establish him.
Odisha’s Sundargarh Police Wednesday arrested Kunu Kisan, 24, a local of a village underneath the district’s Lephripada police station, together with an confederate on fees of abduction and homicide, amongst different sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS). He was arrested with an as yet-unidentified-accomplice after the lady’s physique elements had been recovered, having been fished out of two water our bodies – the Tatkera Nali, a close-by stream, and the Brahmani River, each close to Rourkela.
The girl, who had accused him of rape when she was nonetheless a minor, had gone lacking from her aunt’s home earlier month, and a police grievance was filed on December 7.
“The deceased filed a rape case in opposition to the accused particular person in Dharuadihi police station in Sundargarh district underneath the Safety of Youngsters from Sexual Offences Act, 2012 (POCSO). He was arrested on August 27, 2023 and was launched on bail on December 4, 2023. The accused believed that he can be convicted if the deceased gave a press release in court docket and hatched the plan to kill her,” Jharsuguda SP Smit Parmar instructed The Indian Categorical.
Considerably, the suspect and the survivor had allegedly recognized one another beforehand and had been additionally in contact after his launch on bail. Police declare that the suspect needed to seem at a court docket listening to on December 15 and had been attempting to persuade the survivor to provide a beneficial assertion however she had refused to relent.
“Then, the accused and one in all his associates deliberate to commit the crime and even purchased a knife for the aim,” the officer mentioned.
The plan, in response to the police, was to lure the survivor from her aunt’s home in Jharsuguda, and take her on a motorbike to NH143. There, her throat was slit, she was minimize and disposed of. In accordance with the police, the suspect had even modified his bike’s quantity plates and different identifiers similar to stickers and likewise wore a helmet all through.
What he didn’t rely on, nevertheless, was police utilizing the AI characteristic in Jharsuguda’s Good Metropolis CCTV system. In accordance with the police, when the photograph of the lacking lady was fed into the system, police discovered photos of her on a two-wheeler with two males.
The system then helps peruse police information to slim down a listing of suspects, serving to the police zero in on Kisan.
“Utilizing technical forensics and CCTV footage of neighbouring areas, Kunu Kisan of Lefripada police station was traced and was dropped at the police station. Throughout interrogation, the accused confessed that he had killed the lacking lady and disposed of her physique after slicing it into small elements,” SP Parmar mentioned.
Police and forensic groups, with help from divers of the Odisha Catastrophe Speedy Motion Power (ODRAF), helped acquire the scattered items of her physique, which was then finally recognized.
A DNA check will likely be finished to scientifically set up the identification of the deceased, the officer mentioned.
