Indian teacher receives a lifetime imprisonment for a deadly “wedding bomb”

Former College Director in East India, Odish, was sentenced to life imprisonment for sending a parcel that killed a young man and his great aunt in 2018.

The court found that the 56 -year -old Penzella Mehar was guilty of murder, attempted murder and use of explosives that it became known as the “wedding bomb” case, which stunned India.

The bomb, dressed in the wedding gift, was delivered to the house of a 26-year-old Soumya Sekhar Sahu software engineer, just a few days after the wedding.

When the couple opened the package, he exploded – killing Sahu and his big aunt, and leaving his wife Rema, who opened the package, critically wounded.

Recognizing the prosecution argument that it is a “horrific” crime, the court refused to classify it as a “rare” case that deserves the death penalty.

The BBC covered the incident with a detailed two -part investigative series.

The blast in February 2018 took place in the Patno -Corch, a quiet city in the Balangir district of Odysha.

The victims were married only five days and prepared lunch when their house arrived. It was addressed to the mum and seemed to be a wedding gift, allegedly sent from a Raipur in the state of the quadrih, more than 230 km (142 mph).

When the muzzle pulled the thread to the parcel to open it, a powerful explosion broke through the kitchen, killing him and his 85-year-old great-grandson Jemaman Sahu. Rema, then 22 years old, survived with serious burns, traced by the eardrum and injury.

After a long investigation, the police arrested Mecher, the then teacher and the former director of the local college where the mother’s mother worked.

Then the investigators told me that Meherer had gone resentment for his professional rivalry and planned an attack carefully. He used a false name and address to send a bomb from a raipur, selecting a courier service without CCTV and scanning parcels.

The bomb drove more than 650 km (40 miles) on the bus, passing through a few hands before delivering. Investigators said it was a rough but deadly device wrapped in a jute thread, rigged to blow up when opening.

The parcel carried the explosive named the fake name – SK Sharma from Raipur. Weeks went without obvious suspects. Investigators looked at thousands of telephone records and interrogated more than 100 people, including one person who, after the engagement, made a threatening call – but nothing was delayed.

Then, in April, an anonymous letter reached the local police chief.

It claimed that the bomb was sent under the name “Sk Sinha”, not the Sharma, and the motives of “betrayal” and money are mysteriously mentioned.

The letter states that three men “launched a project” and now “outside the police”. He referred to the “betrayal” of the groom and the money – hinting at a despicable lover or dispute about property – as motives. He also asked the police to stop pursuing the innocent.

The letter has transformed the investigation.

Arun Bobra, a police officer who headed the crime of Odysha, noticed that the handwriting of the parcel was read: he resembled “Sinha” more than “Sharma”.

The main thing is that the writer who seemed to know about it – what only the sender could know.

Now the police believed that the suspect had sent the letter himself.

“It was clear that the sender knew more about the crime than we were. Writing his ambassador, he wanted to tell us that the crime was not the work of a local man. He wanted to tell us that the plot was executed three people. He wanted to take seriously, so he liked his fake cover, pointing to the mistake.”

The victim’s mother, a college teacher, recognized the style of writing a letter and phraseology as a colleague of Mehar, a former director she replaced.

Police have previously rejected the rivalry in the Mechaera workplace as a regular academic policy. He has now become the main suspect.

In question, Meher initially suggested an implausible story about being forced to deliver a letter at risk.

Police claim that he later confessed: he hid firecrackers during the weirdo, obtained gunpowder, built a bomb and sent it from the raipur with the help of the courier.

He allegedly left his phone at home to create an alibi and avoided CCTV without buying a train ticket. Mehar was even present at the victim’s wedding, and the funeral.

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