Kendrapara, Jan. 9 -- Kendrapara Town Police on Friday detained a Junior Engineer in connection with the suspicious death of a young woman, as part of an ongoing investigation, said Inspector-in-Charge (IIC) Dillip Kumar Sahoo. The detained Junior Engineer has been identified as Sudhanshu Sekhar Behera.
According to police, the deceased, Pratikhya Nayak, a resident of Taras village under the Rajkanika police limits, had been working as an ad-hoc employee under the Swachh Bharat Mission at the Kendrapara Municipality office for about two years and six months. She resigned from her job in April 2025 to prepare for the B.Ed examination and was residing in a rented house.
On Thursday, family members found her body hanging from a ceiling fan i...