VSSUT student Chinmayee death: Two accused including male friend to undergo polygraph test

Burla: In Veer Surendra Sai University of Technology (CSSUT) student Chinmayee Priyadarshini Sahu death case, police will conduct polygraph test on two accused persons including the deceased’s male friend Pritiman Dey.

Along with Pritiman, accused Manas Tudu will undergo the lie detector test today at State Forensic Science Laboratory in Bhubaneswar.

In this regard, a team of Sambalpur Police has brought two accused to Bhubaneswar for the test.

Sources said that police will send clothes of Pritiman for examination. Besides, two more police teams are likely to visit Balangir and Sonepur districts for more investigation into the mysterious death case of the VSSUT student.

A case under Sections 302, 201 and 34 of the IPC has been registered against Pritiman of BJB Nagar in Bhubaneswar and Manas Tudu, a final year student of VSSUT.

Reportedly, Chinmayee had visited the power channel bridge in Burla with her friend after receiving her educational certificate during the convocation ceremony at VSSUT on February 28.

According to reports, the student went missing after falling into the power channel off the bridge. Next morning, police recovered her body near the power channel.

Her family lodge a complaint with police suspecting foul play by Chinmayee’s friends.

“The body bore marks on neck. My daughter was strangled to death. There was involvement of a youth and others in the murder of my daughter,” said the deceased’s mother who lodged the police complaint.