Overview

• Berhampur Police arrested Santanu Patra at Wadi railway station in Karnataka on August 16 with assistance from the Railway Protection Force.
• Police identified him as the person seen on CCTV entering Gayatri Swain’s Sreema Nagar home around 9:45 p.m. on August 10 and leaving after midnight.
• He is accused of killing Gayatri and attacking her daughter Neelam, who is undergoing treatment at AIIMS Bhubaneswar.
• Investigators say he had been using the name Sunil Swain after absconding in a 2019 POCSO rape case in Balasore.
• He was produced before a local court in Sedam and brought to Odisha on transit remand as the investigation and legal proceedings continue.