Nayagarh Minor Girl Murder: RTI Disclosure Puts Govt In Dock, Opposition Launches Scathing Attack

Nayagarh: The case pertaining to the alleged abduction, rape and homicide of a five-year-old lady from Nayagarh took a curious activate Friday when a RTI disclosure raised some critical questions over the State authorities’s claims that it has sought the appointment of a sitting High Court choose to watch the SIT probe.
The disclosure was made by the Public Relations Officer of the Orissa High Court in response to a RTI question filed by social activist Hemant Panda.
In his RTI question, Panda had sought details about the State authorities’s request to accord permission to nominate a sitting choose of the High Court to watch the probe by a Special Investigation Team (SIT) into the sensational homicide.
Last 12 months on the twenty eighth of November, the State authorities had shaped a five-member Special Investigation Team (SIT) led by Arun Bothra. Moreover, the federal government claims to have requested the Chief Justice of Orissa HC to accord permission to watch the investigation of SIT by a Sitting Judge of the HC. A letter was reportedly despatched to Registrar General of the HC concerning the structure of the SIT to research the case.
As per the HC reply dated January 6, 2021, “No letter of request has been received from the State Government as on date regarding the appointment of an honourable sitting judge of this court to monitor the SIT probe on the murder of a minor girl namely ‘Pari’ of Nayagarh district.”

Nayagarh minor lady homicide case: #Odisha govt had not written to Orissa High Court for appointment of a sitting choose to watch SIT probe, reveals an RTI plea. The revelation was made by the HC public relations officer in response to the RTI question filed by activist Hemant Panda
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In one other question, Panda requested whether or not any motion on the request to nominate a sitting choose had been taken, to which the HC replied,” Since no such letter is obtained, query of motion taken doesn’t come up.”
“If actually the State government wanted a Court-monitored investigation, and now when reports suggest that the government hadn’t sent the letter to HC, apprehensions are bound to be raised why it was done so. The government should have come with a clean picture,” stated Manas Chand, a lawyer.
After the RTI report got here to the fore, the Opposition BJP and Congress have joined palms to nook the ruling-BJD.
If true, such an effort by the federal government is unlucky, acknowledged OPCC chief Niranjan Patnaik, including that the get together will increase this subject within the subsequent Assembly session.
“Odisha government in Assembly had announced court-monitored SIT probe into Nayagarh minor girl murder case, but it has now been proved false. The BJD is misleading the people of the State,” stated BJP state common secretary Golak Mohapatra.
“The government did not feel ashamed to lie inside and outside the Assembly, before media persons, before the public, and even made the DGP speak untruth. We demand breach of privilege notice against the State government,” stated BJP’s Lekhashree Samantsinghar.
In response, BJD spokesperson Lenin Mohanty stated, “High Court has issued orders with regard to the probe. This gives a clear indication that BJP doesn’t have any facts. The party is doing cheap politics, and nothing else for its survival.”
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Earlier on January 12, whereas listening to a PIL over the matter, the Orissa HC had directed the SIT, headed by senior IPS officer Arun Bothra, to submit an in depth standing report with regard to the investigation into the case and reviewed the preliminary standing report of the findings. The court docket was glad with the progress of the investigation and requested the SIT to submit a complete report within the case.
However, after SIT sought extra time for submitting the report, the HC granted two months time and glued the following date of listening to on March 25.
It could also be famous that the minor lady went lacking on July 14 final 12 months and her skeletal stays have been discovered within the yard of her home on July 23, 2020. Later, DNA exams on the bones in addition to that of her dad and mom proved that it was of the five-year-old.
The subject took centre stage 4 months later when the lady’s dad and mom made an try to finish their lives in entrance of the Odisha Assembly on November 24 alleging shoddy probe into the case and the police’s failure in bringing the true perpetrators to e book on account of their excessive political connections.

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