CUTTACK: Four persons, including a retired judge, his wife and son were arrested on Wednesday for allegedly attempting to kill a pregnant woman, who was rescued in a critical condition from under the Mahanadi river barrage at Jobra on Tuesday.
The former additional district judge Samir Kumar Ray, wife Gitika and son Satyabrata Ray were sent to judicial custody following rejection of their bail pleas. The fourth accused Prasant Das alias Papina, an electrician, allegedly helped the ex-judge's family to hire some contract killers, who are on the run.
The victim, who was a maid at the ex-judge's house in Bhubaneswar, is now battling for life at SCB Medical College and Hospital here. "The family allegedly tried to kill her because she became pregnant after developing physical relationship with Satyabrata," Cuttack DCP S Praveen Kumar told mediapersons. Satyabrat is a law graduate, sources said.
The woman had told the media that Satyabrata had married her and the family had been forcing her to abort. But the ex-judge's family rubbished the charge on Tuesday. Trouble erupted after Satyabrata's marriage was fixed with another girl recently. Sources said the family first took the woman to a popular nursing home for abortion, but they were turned away by the hospital staff. She was then taken to a clinic in Cuttack.
"When the second attempt failed to yield result, the Rays hatched the plan to kill her as she could have posed a threat to Satyabrata's new relationship. They hired contract killers with the help of the electrician," another police officer said.
DCP Kumar said, "During investigation we found that the Ray family had paid Rs 3.5 lakh to the contract killers. We are trying to trace them."
The woman from Nayagarh's Odagaon was thrown off the Mahanadi river barrage with her hands and legs tied. She was rescued by locals and admitted to SCB.
The woman had sustained critical injuries in the head and chest. Earlier in the day, chairperson of state commission for women (SCW) Jyoti Panigrahi met her at SCB and assured that she will get justice.Ex-judge, family held for murder bid on pregnant woman
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