November 24th 2023.
K Ganesh Patra, a 25-year-old man from Adheigaon, a village in the state of Odisha in India, was accused of a heinous crime on October 6th. The Daily Mail reported that he allegedly killed his wife, K Basanti Patra, and their two-year-old daughter, Debasmita, by unleashing a venomous cobra into their room.
The couple had been married since 2020 and the reports from NDTV suggested that Ganesh had purchased the cobra from a local snake charmer, supposedly for religious purposes. When Ganesh released the deadly snake into his wife and daughter’s room, he was allegedly in the other room.
The next day, Basanti and Debasmita’s lifeless bodies were found with snake bites and Ganesh informed the neighbors about the snake’s intrusion. In response, the villagers killed the snake and rushed the victims to a nearby hospital, where they were pronounced dead. In an attempt to deflect suspicion, Ganesh filed a police complaint and a case of unnatural death was registered.
However, Ganesh’s father-in-law accused him of murder and a month after the incident, the authorities apprehended him. The Superintendent of Police, Jagmohan Meena, explained the delay, stating, “There was some delay in gathering evidence against him.”
When Ganesh was interrogated by the police, he initially denied any involvement in the crime. He claimed that the snake might have entered the room on its own, but eventually confessed to the crime after further questioning. The post-mortem report further fueled suspicions, as it questioned how the snake remained in the room for several hours after the fatal bites occurred during the late hours of October 6th.
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