Overview
- Police say 62-year-old Debaraj Sarangi killed his 55-year-old wife at their Swastik Nagar home in Bhubaneswar after a morning argument on Wednesday.
- He allegedly struck her with his fists, strangled her until she was unconscious, then stabbed her face and neck with a kitchen knife, causing fatal bleeding.
- After the attack, he locked the house, went to his daughter’s home in Patrapada to give her about ₹25,000 and gold jewellery, then walked into the Airfield police station to confess.
- Investigators registered a murder case under Section 103(1) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, seized the knife and two mobile phones from the scene, and a court remanded him to judicial custody.
- Officials and family members report diabetes, high blood pressure, liver illness, and recent insomnia for Sarangi, with police still probing motive and other details.