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Woman’s body found under kitchen slab in Puri, son missing
Police in Puri, Odisha, have recovered the body of a woman buried under a freshly cemented slab in the kitchen of a rented house in Kumbharapada. The house owner alerted police after…
Police in Puri, Odisha, have recovered the body of a woman buried under a freshly cemented slab in the kitchen of a rented house in Kumbharapada. The house owner alerted police after a foul smell emerged and the woman had not been seen for days. Her son, who lived with her, has been missing since yesterday, and his phone is switched off.
The body has been sent for post-mortem, and a scientific team has collected samples. The son reportedly worked at a studio producing devotional songs on Lord Jagannath. Puri SP Prateek Singh confirmed a team has been formed and the investigation is underway. Police are trying to establish the woman's identity, the tenants had submitted no identity documents, and trace the missing son.
Indian Opinion Analysis
Times Now leads with the mystery angle, woman found dead, son missing, and quotes the house owner describing the son as caring and sober, which frames him as a possible victim. Odisha TV leads with the accusation: son murdered her and buried the body. That headline skips the ambiguity Times Now preserves. The OTV version is the stronger news judgement: the cement-plastered slab, the son fleeing, and the lack of identity documents all point away from accident. The missing-pieces framing in Times Now (unidentified woman, son unreachable) is faithful to the early stage of the probe but underplays how incriminating the known facts already are. Readers should follow the son's whereabouts and the post-mortem report, which will confirm cause of death.
Coverage: 2 sources, 2 sensationalist
Sources (2): timesnownews.com (sensationalist), odishatv.in (sensationalist)
This story was synthesised by AI from the 2 sources linked above.
Updated: this story now draws on 2 sources.
