Kolkata: Serial killer Udayan Das, who on Wednesday confessed to have murdered his own parents and his live-in partner was sent to a five-day transit remand to Raipur on Thursday.
A police team from Chhatisgarh had prayed for his five-day remand, which was granted by chief judicial magistrate Arun Kumar Nandy. Udayan’s lawyer Arup Banerjee again sought bail for him. However, the accused embarrassed him by directly informing the CJM that he did not want the bail. Thereafter, Judge Nandy asked the accused if he wanted to say something. “Whatever I had to say I said on Wednesday,” he said.
Judge Nandy then told him that a police team would be taking him to Raipur on a transit remand. Unfazed, the accused said he knew about it. The lawyer of the family of the victim, Akansha, showed the accused her photograph and asked if he recognised her. “Yes this is Akansha,” he replied.
The Bankura police had brought Udayan from Raipur on February 6 on a transit remand to Kolkata to interrogate him for Akansha’s murder. Today, the Raipur police took him to the capital of Chhatisgarh to interrogate him about his parents’ double murder. Udayan had self-admittedly killed his father, V.K. Das and mother Indrani Das, in July 2010 and buried them in the garden of their Raipur house.
Before he was produced in the CJM court for the hearing, he went to the third magistrate Sangita Chatterjee’s court to record his confessional statement under section 164 of CrPC.
It was the Bankura police that arrested Udayan from his Bhopal home on February 3, where he had entombed Akansha after murdering her. Her skeletal remains were recovered after demolishing the tomb-like structure. During the interrogation, the Bankura police learnt that he had also killed and buried his parents in their Raipur home. He was then taken to Raipur where he showed the police where he buried their bodies. Their skeletal remains were exhumed. He was then brought to Bankura where the court sent him to eight-day police custody that ended on Wednesday. When he was produced in CJM court on Wednesday, he admitted that he killed Akansha. He had contradicted his own lawyer by informing Judge Nandy that he did not want to be released on bail.
