17-05-2025
Auto driver held for raping, murdering passenger in Angul
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Bhubaneswar: A 28-year-old autorickshaw driver, accused of raping and murdering a 22-year-old woman in Angul district around three weeks ago, was arrested from Maharashtra on Friday.
Police said the accused, identified as
Bisu Gochhayat
, was apprehended from a private factory in Maharashtra's Raigad district, where he was working as a labourer.
As per the police complaint, the deceased had taken Bisu's auto after her train got cancelled on April 26. The driver, instead of taking her to the railway station, took her to the side of a canal, raped her and throttled her to death using her dupatta. After killing her, he left the body in a nearby forest and fled the scene.
The woman's decomposed body was found after a week. On April 27, the family of the deceased girl filed a police case.
As per Angul police, the accused was roaming in different areas of Maharashtra and parts of Gujarat and finally worked at a factory in Raigad. He took complete precaution to conceal his identity and did not use mobile phones and rarely contacted his family and friends, police said.
Angul police formed six teams comprising 2 additional SPs, 1 DSP, 4 inspectors, 5 sub-inspectors, 5 ASIs and 20 constables to arrest Bisu.
The teams scanned over 1,000 CCTV cameras in different states to find out his whereabouts. Analysis of CCTV footage, intelligence inputs, scientific evidence and CDR analysis revealed he was hiding somewhere in Raigad district.
The Angul SP in a press release stated, "We had planned an operation called 'Cocoon' to nab the suspect. As many as 14 people are involved in harbouring the accused. Two teams of the cyber cell worked round-the-clock at the district police office."
