Overview
- Police say the woman left home on February 22 to elope and was first sexually assaulted by her boyfriend, identified as Somnath Ojha, who then left her near the Rahama bus stand.
- According to investigators, a man from Dhanbad, Jharkhand, identified as Shubham Kumar, offered help, took her to his rented place in Paradip, raped her, and threw her from the fourth floor.
- Her body was recovered on February 23 after a missing-person report was filed the previous evening, with a detailed rape-and-murder complaint lodged by her brother on February 25.
- Both suspects have been arrested and booked on kidnapping, rape and murder charges under the BNS, and the probe remains underway, police said.
- Officers report a postmortem confirmed sexual assault and say they traced the case using CCTV footage, seizing a motorcycle and two mobile phones and recovering explicit content from one device.