A 26-year-old youth was arrested for allegedly strangulating over a 40-year-old man over illicit relationship with the victim's wife at a slum under suburban Bagbera thana area on Friday morning.
Though the father of the murdered victim was also found lying dead in the same room, the police are not sure whether the elderly man identified as Sushil Mahanty was too murdered or not.
Police said the murder victim Raju Mahanty was allegedly strangulated to death by his tenant Jiten Kumar following an altercation over illicit relation Deepa Devi, wife of Raju. Both the bodies have been shifted to MGM Medical College mortuary for postmortem.
According to police, after autopsy of the body of senior Mahanty is done only that it can be ascertained whether he has died of a heart attack or was also strangulated.
Police think Sushil Mahanty might not have been strangulated as there was no ligature mark on his neck like it was on Raju's neck. Senior SP, M Tamil Vanan and SP (City) Subhash Chandra Jat inspected the crime scene at Gandhi Nagar, the densely-populated slum where the sensational double deaths took place.
The woman with whom the tenant had illicit affair is 35-year-old and mother of four children. According to sources, Raju Mahanty who had a dubious background of selling marijuana had given a portion of his house on rent to Jiten Kumar a couple of months ago during which the latter had developed illicit relation with his wife.
Revealing about the incident, City SP said that from the preliminary investigation it was found that the murder of Raju Mahanty is the result of an illicit relation between a tenant and the murder victim's wife.
"There was ligature mark in the neck of Raju Mahanty. On the basis of circumstantial evidence and statement of the children as well as the neighbours, we have arrested Jiten Kumar who was a tenant at the victims' house," said Jat while talking to The Telegraph Online.
The senior police officer pointed out Raju Mahanty's widow is also being interrogated and is likely to be arrested. Jat said mystery behind the way both the father and son died is yet to be completely unravelled, adding that interrogation is on.