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Almost 28 years after his wife’s death, Odisha MLA Ramamurthy Gomango was found guilty by a special court in Bhubaneswar last Saturday of murder and destruction of evidence. The amount of the penalty will be announced on Tuesday.
The half-burnt body of Jamango’s wife, Sachirekha, is recovered from the bathroom of the former legislator’s residence at the MLA colony in Bhubaneswar on August 29, 1995.
Initially, an unnatural death case was registered by the city’s Kharvel Nagar Police Station, but it was later converted into a homicide case. Jumangu was charged under Sections 302 (willful homicide) and 201 (causing evidence to disappear) of the Indian Penal Code. He was also arrested in the case, but was released on bail in just two months.
Rashmi Ranjan Brahma, the special prosecutor in the case, said that during the trial, the prosecution questioned 11 witnesses and 15 documents.
The prosecution was able to prove that the accused committed the murder of his wife and tried to make it look like a suicide. The former legal aid law was sent to prison after being found guilty. Brahma told the Indian Express that the amount of the punishment would be announced on June 27.
Jumangu, a tribal chief, represented the Gonupur constituency in the Odisha Assembly, first from 1990 to 1995 as a Janata Dal MLA, then from 2000 to 2004 as a BJP MLA. He lost the 2004 assembly elections to Hematti Jamang, who fought on a congress ticket.
Although Jamango had left the BJP in 2009 after the ruling BJP cut ties with the Saffron Party, he rejoined the BJP in 2014 and unsuccessfully contested that year’s general assembly elections.
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