DNA Profiling to Tie Accused to Crime

BHUBANESWAR police has collected DNA samples which it will send to the State Forensic Science Laboratory (SFSL) for profiling in a bid to establish involvement of the accused in the brutal murder of sanitation supervisor Sahadev Nayak.

- ASISH MEHTA @Bhubaneswar

Four assailants - Lipika Nayak, her husband Laxmidhar Nayak and their two associates Rocky Nayak and Sushant Nayak had bludgeoned the victim's head with two swords, almost decapitating him, on National Highway-16 near busy Rasulgarh Square in the early hours of Wednesday.

Police sources said though scores of passers-by witnessed the ghastly crime, their testimonies as eyewitnesses may not be of any significant help in prosecution as all four of them had kept their faces completely covered.

With no CCTV cameras in the crime scene too, the cops are closely stitching available scientific evidence which are a key component during trial of complicated murder cases.