Accused was unhappy with costly tests

The man who killed an orthopaedic surgeon, his domestic help and the latter’s son in Bhubaneswar on Tuesday has said that he was unhappy with the unnecessary diagnostic tests the surgeon had recommended for his daughter, according to the police.

Sneha Swakhyar Samal, a 40-year-old medical representative-turned-chemist, entered surgeon Atulya Chandra Meher’s house on Tuesday and stabbed him and two other people to death before he was nabbed.

Samal told the police that he met the doctor on October 3 and 9 at a city hospital, where he had taken his daughter for medical consultation. Dr Meher reportedly advised several diagnostic procedures for which Samal paid around Rs 10,000.