Bachan Sudha Murder case: Psychoanalysis test conducted on security guard

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Dipti Ranjan Patnaik
Bhubaneswar: After taking security guard Dipti Ranjan Patnaik on five-day police remand from Jharpada Jail to conduct various test on him following interrogations about the heinous crime in connection with the broad day-light murder of city-based businessman’s wife Bachansudha Pattanayak on September 11 in the city, the Commissionerate Police conducted psychoanalysis test on him on Thursday.

The test was conducted by an expert Dr Asha Shrivastav, a clinical psychologist of the Central Forensic Science Laboratory in New Delhi and is also working for the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), to examine the mental status of the accused.

During the marathon interrogation held at the Commissionerate Police headquarters here, the security guard was asked on crime related questions in order to find possible involvement of more persons in the related crime. He was quizzed by the expert in an isolated room. The whole interrogation process took around seven hours which started from 9 am in the morning.

“The result of the test will be submitted by the expert soon,” said Twin City Commissioner of Police Dr RP Sharma, adding, “Though we have substantial physical evidence of the prime accused Patnaik, but after getting the result from the expert it would add more caps to the investigation.”

In the morning, Dr Shrivastav was briefed about the whole incident and then she went to the crime spot, where the businesswoman was killed, to get physically exposure so that she can able to frame questions for the test.

The expert framed questions herself for the test and asked the accused in the isolated room about different angles of the murder, police sources said. The expert might have asked him if anybody else aided and abetted the crime basing on the suspicion of the victim’s family members that several others are involved in the crime, apart from the key accused, added the police sources.

The police brought Pattnaik from Jharpada jail in the morning on Wednesday and took him to the Mancheswar police station for interrogation. The police had requested the Bhubaneswar SDJM court to take Pattnaik on remand in order to get more information from him about the murder of the managing director of Madhukan Finance and subsequently the court on Tuesday had allowed the cops to take him on remand.

After this test, Sharma said that the police might go for DNA test of the blood stained shirt to know whether more persons were involved in the crime or not.

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