Pari Murder Case: HC Rejected Odisha Govt Plea For Court-Monitored Probe, Says RTI Activist – ODISHA BYTES
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Balangir: An RTI activist on Sunday claimed that the Orissa High Court has rejected the Odisha authorities’s request for a court-monitored probe by a Special Investigation Team (SIT) into the homicide of a five-year-old woman at Jadupur village in Nayagarh district.
Briefing the media, RTI activist Hemant Panda mentioned he had sought the knowledge from the HC concerning the court-monitored SIT probe into the case on December 15 final yr.
In reply, the Additional Deputy Registrar of the High Court, B Das, in his first letter said that the courtroom had not obtained such a request until January 6 this yr.
However, in one other letter on January 16, Das confirmed that though a specific part of the HC had obtained a written request from the federal government, the matter was handled confidentially by the courtroom’s administrative facet, the RTI activist added.
Panda additional claimed that the HC official has mentioned the courtroom rejected the written request by the state authorities on November 28, 2020 to provide permission to observe the SIT investigation by a sitting decide. The HC had communicated this confidentially to the federal government on December 1, 2020.
The activist mentioned regardless that the HC has turned down the request for a court-monitored probe, the state authorities has not disclosed this until date.
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