The police have booked the ex-boyfriend of the 20-year-old woman college student whose charred body was found in her house in Kendrapara district, on charges of abetment of suicide and sexual harassment, an officer said on Sunday (August 10, 2025).
The Pattamundai (Rural) Police Station has booked Pramod Behera of the locality under Sections 296 (obscene act), 75 (sexual harassment), 78 (stalking) and 108 (abetment of suicide) of the BNS and Sections 66-E and 67-A of the IT Act, the officer said.
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Mr. Behera was booked after the victim's father lodged a written complaint at the police station on Saturday (August 9, 2025), naming him as the prime accused, Kendrapara SP Siddharth Kataria told reporters.
The father in his FIR has alleged that Behera, the ex-boyfriend of his daughter, was blackmailing her and threatening to make her intimate pictures viral on social media.
