OD-ACTRESS-REPORT

The autopsy report of TV artiste

Laxmipriya Behera alias Nikita has confirmed that she died

due to internal and external injuries on her body, caused

after falling from a height, police said.

"We have received the post-mortem report of the

deceased. It corroborates our findings that the death of the

woman was due to injuries caused after falling from a height,"

Cuttack city DCP, Akhileswar Singh, said on Thursday.

The 28-year-old woman had died on Friday last after

falling from the terrace of her parents house at Mahanadi

Vihar here under the jurisdiction of Chauliaganj police

station.

She had fallen from the rooftop after a scuffle with

her estranged husband Lipan Sahu, the police said.

Lipan Sahu had been arrested on Tuesday, while

notices have been issued to his parents, who are also facing

domestic violence charges, to appear before the police.

"Lipan Sahu's parents are not at their Gopalpur

residence and their whereabouts are not known", the DCP said.

After her marriage in November 2016, Nikita had moved

out of her in-laws house and was staying in Bhubaneswar with

her husband since August 2017.