Kalahandi man kills two babies born out of wedlock with two from district in Goa

BHUBANESWAR: The skeletal remains of one of the two infants, who were killed and buried by three persons from Odisha in a forest in a Goa village, was exhumed by Kalahandi police recently. The police said Tripal Naik from Odisha’s Kalahandi, who was working as a daily labourer in Goa, had developed illicit relationships with two women, also daily wagers from the district, and killed the babies born out of wedlock with the help of their mothers.
While Naik (36) and one of the women were arrested on July 30, the other one was arrested on August 13. Both the women are in their twenties.
The police came to know about the murder of the two infants in Goa while probing the allegations of abduction and rape against Naik. One of the two women recently lodged a complaint with Golamunda police station in Kalahandi accusing Naik of abducting and raping her.
During investigation, the police came to know that Naik and the two women had reached Goa two weeks before the lockdown was imposed in 2020 and started working at a construction site there.
Naik had allegedly promised to marry both the women, who were aware of each other’s affair with him, and both had also reportedly agreed to live together as his wives in his home. “In June this year, one of the women gave birth to a child in Naik’s home in Goa. Since the baby was born out of wedlock, Naik insisted that she kill the baby. Naik and the second woman killed the baby and buried the body in a forest,” Kalahandi SP Saravana Vivek M said. Last month, the other woman gave birth to a child. Naik allegedly killed her newborn as well and buried the body in the same jungle. The police said in both the cases, the women had allegedly given their consents to Naik to kill their babies and had also helped him destroy the evidence. After some days, the trio returned to their villages in Kalahandi. Naik landed in trouble when he refused to marry them. When one of the women lodged a complaint of abduction and rape against Naik, the police unravelled the murder angle during the course of investigation. “Our team took Naik to Goa where he identified the place where he had buried the babies. The police exhumed the skeletal remains of only one infant in Goa on August 5e. The post-mortem of the exhumed body was done by forensic experts of Medical College, Goa on August 6,” the SP said.