Bodies of Young Couple Found on Railway Track in Puri, Suicide Suspected

Puri: Bodies of a 30-year-old man and a 22-year-old girl were found on the railway track near Puri station on Thursday evening.

The duo was identified as Jatin Shankar Padhy, son of Purnachandra Padhy, of Kotpad area in Koraput and Truptimayee Sahu.

The Government Railway Police (GRP) sent the bodies for postmortem after registering an unnatural death case.

Padhy’s driving licence, his voter identity card and the girl’s Aadhaar card, and some other documents were recovered from the spot.

The bodies were found on the railway track near Puri station at around 7 pm. It is suspected that the duo might have ended their lives by jumping before a moving train.