BHUBANESWAR: The killer tracked the consignment containing bomb online twice from a private computer institute in Bhawanipatna in Kalahandi district to know whether it reached the groom’s home in Patnagarh in Balangir district.

A team of cyber experts, which is on the job to nail the killer, found from the courier’s central server the Internet Protocol (IP) address that was accessed in Bhawanipatna to track the consignment . The experts knew the IP address through the unique consignment number that police had retrieved.

“The Central server registers all the information including the routes the consignment passes through and the place and time of tracking of it by any person through online,” said an expert.

The police however find it difficult to ascertain the identity of the tracker as it was not an internet café and no register was maintained to keep records of users. “We have grilled the owner of the computer institute. If required, other staffs and students will also be questioned,” said a police officer.

The parcel bomb had exploded moments after opening it. It killed Soumya Sekhar Sahoo, the software professional, who had entered into wedlock with Reema six days before the incident. Soumya’s grandmother Jemamani also succumbed to injuries.

Additional superintendent of police (Balangir) S B Satapathy said finding IP address was a major lead but it is again a tough job to zero in on the sender. Our teams are still working at four places outside the state. We are corroborating each and every piece of information obtained by the multiple teams,” said Satapathy.

Police didn’t divulge the date of accessing the courier’s website to track the consignment from Bhawanipatna. There was no CCTV camera at the computer institute. “It is not necessary that the sender only will try to track the consignment. There may be some of his accomplices or acquaintances, who the killer took help of to know whether the packet reached the destination,” said a police officer.

What has baffled the police is that the consignment was sent from Raipur and it reached Patnagarh en route Sambalpur and Balangir. It was tracked in Bhawanipatna.

The cyber experts will also try to retrieve the chat history from the social media website of the groom and Soumya.

