Software engineer Sweta Utkal Kumari death case: Boyfriend Soumyajeet arrested

Bhubaneswar: In a major development in the software engineer Sweta Utkal Kumari death case, the Twin City Commissionerate Police today arrested her boyfriend Soumyajeet Mohapatra from his residence in Sambalpur.

According to reports, a team of Chandrasekharpur police reached his house at Bansidharnagar in Sambalpur and apprehended the accused. He was being brought to Bhubaneswar.

Soumyajeet has been arrested under Section 306 (abetment of suicide) of the IPC.

Notably, Sweta was found hanging inside her apartment in Sailashree Vihar area here on August 21, last year. The software engineer hailed from Bhadrak and was working as a Technology Analyst with Infosys here.

Her brother alleged that Soumyajeet was threatening her to make photos of their intimate moments viral, for which she took the extreme step.

“Soumyajeet had kept photos of intimate moments between him and my sister. He was demanding money from her by threatening her to make the pics viral if she didn’t agree to his demands,” said Sweta’s brother.

“They met each other in 2018 while both were working with an IT major in Bhubaneswar. It was an one-sided love affair from Soumyajeet’s side for the first 7-8 months. He then threatened my sister that he would end his life if she didn’t love him. This is how the relationship came into existence. We came to know about it after 1.5 year,” the deceased’s brother said.

Levelling similar allegations against Soumyajeet, Sweta’s father said, “He had quit job for pursuing MBA. He then started extorting money from my daughter, over which she died by suicide.”

“I had gone to Soumyajeet’s house to meet his family members for his marriage with my daughter. However, they harassed me and demanded Rs 30 lakh for the marriage. I had expressed my inability to give them the amount,”  Sweta’s father added.

On the basis of an FIR lodged by the family members of Sweta, Chandrasekharpur police had registered a case against him under Section 306 (abetment of suicide) of the IPC.

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