Bengaluru woman’s body chopped into pieces: Hours before killing himself, accused told his mother what he had done

The mother of the accused, Muktirajan Pratap Ray, said he came home around 10 pm on Tuesday. Ray had allegedly gone on the run after killing Mahalakshmi.

“He looked tense, so I asked him why, and he said that he had committed a mistake. When I pressed him, he said he had murdered a woman in Bengaluru, where he was staying to earn a living,” mother, aged about 60, told the media.

She claimed that when she asked him the reason, he told her the victim had taken his money and a gold chain. “He said he committed the crime a fortnight back,” she said.

She also claimed that Ray had been picked up by the police in Karnataka following a complaint by the woman, but came out after paying Rs 1,000.

She claimed that days before the crime, he was threatened by a group of youths at the woman’s behest. “He then went to the woman’s house where they had a scuffle. My son said he choked her to death,” she claimed. She said he did not mention anything about chopping her body.

“I was speechless after he narrated the incident. He then slept. Around 4 am, he said he was leaving as he did not want the family to be affected by the police investigation. He had a glass of water and left,” she said.

Before coming home, the accused also visited his younger brother’s room at Berhampur, where he is studying.

Meanwhile, the Bengaluru police visited Dhusuri police station in Bhadrak district and collected documents from them.

Police sources said that in a purported three-page suicide note, the accused wrote about being exploited for money and the woman’s relationship with another man.