Baripada, May 22: Additional superintendent of police of Mayurbhanj Bibhudendra Kumar Aich died of a suspected cardiac arrest in his office today.

Aich was promoted yesterday as the superintendent of police and was scheduled to join as superintendent of police in Deogarh on Friday. He was 56.

Mayurbhanj police superintendent Nikhil Kanodia said: “Aich was giving dictation about some work to one of his colleagues in his office. Suddenly, he felt uneasy and was taken to the district headquarters hospital where he was declared dead. He was to be relieved tomorrow for his new posting.”

Aich joined the police as a sub-inspector in 1979 and had held various posts in different districts. He was posted as additional superintendent in Mayurbhanj in 2012.

A native of Keonjhar district, Aich’s family members live in Cuttack. The department will take a decision about the funeral after the post-mortem was conducted and the family members arrived, said an official source.

Killer father

The district police today arrested a 40-year-old man, who had allegedly killed his two minor sons about a month ago.

The accused, Ramchandra Singh, was nabbed from the weekly market of Bangriposhi.

The police suspected that Singh had killed the two boys as he had suspicion about his wife’s fidelity. He had doubts whether the two deceased were his biological sons or not, said inspector in charge of Jharpokharia police station Manas Deo. On April 25, two bodies were found at Kaniamahal near Manbhanj. The bodies bore strangulation marks around their necks. The deceased were identified as Gobinda Singh, 8, and Siba Singh, 6. Their mother Muni Singh had left the house with the two children and was staying with her parents for nearly one year following a quarrel with her husband.