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Odisha Constable Killing: Husband Held as Police Probe Insurance Motive and Prior Spouse’s Death

Police now focus on a suspected financial motive, revisiting the accused constable’s first wife’s 2022 death.

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Investigators are also looking into the circumstances around the death of Deepak Rout’s first wife, who was reported to have died in a road accident (Getty Images/iStockphoto)
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Overview

  • Deepak Kumar Rout, a Commissionerate Police constable, was arrested after interrogation; police say he confessed to strangling his wife on September 6 in Bhubaneswar and burying her in a Keonjhar forest.
  • Subhamitra Sahoo’s remains were exhumed at Ghatagaon, a case was registered (535/25 under BNS), and Rout has been suspended and produced in court.
  • Two men — cousin Binod Bihari Bhuyan and local resident Sambhunath Mahanta — were arrested on conspiracy and evidence‑destruction charges, with police saying the body was buried behind Mahanta’s house.
  • Investigators cite digital trails and CCTV/toll data and allege Rout kept the body in his car, including at the Police Seva Bhawan parking lot, before driving to Keonjhar and later visiting the Tarini temple.
  • Police are examining a suspected financial and insurance motive, including a ₹1 crore policy in Sahoo’s name, and are rechecking the 2022 death of Rout’s first wife after her family filed a complaint over an earlier ₹1 crore payout.