Bhubaneswar: A man dressed like a woman who was allegedly went bankrupt to his neighbor’s house, a retired professor, and stabbed his wife and daughter and daughter in the residential area Sailashree Vihar upstairs here on Monday.
The victims, aged 68 and 27, who were critically injured in the attack, were undergoing treatment at a private hospital.
The police identified the attacker as Rupesh Panda, 35, a visual editor with regional news channels in the city.
Even though it was injured critically, the victims against Panda, beat him and even managed to call the neighbors who came to save them, police said.
The police detained Panda, wore Salwar Kameez, from the crime scene.
Panda was also injured during the upheaval with the mother-child duo and rushed to the capital hospital.
“We tried to find out the panda motif behind the attack and why he entered his neighbor’s house wore women’s clothes.
He was questioned.
The statement of the victims and their neighbors would be noted,” said DCP Uma Shankar Dash.
“We opened our door when the bell rang, thought of the caller was a woman with a helmet on his head.
Then, we found that it was Panda, our neighbor.
He began to stab us suddenly, and also brandished a gun.
We were seriously injured,” said His daughter.
He denied hostility between Panda and his family.
“Three unidentified men forced me to attack the family while I went to the office.
They threatened to kill me if I didn’t do it,” said the police quoted Panda in his defense.
However, he avoided stating why he was wearing Salwar Kameez.
The wife and family member of Panda said he did not have mental illness.
“The police must investigate this problem well,” he added.
Man dressed like a woman stabbing a neighbor at Odisha the capital
