Kunduli Rape-Suicide: Top Odisha Officials, Cops Appear Before NCSC Panel

New Delhi: Senior bureaucrats and police officers of Odisha appeared before the National Commission for Scheduled Castes (NCSC) in New Delhi on Tuesday for a hearing on the much-talked-about Kunduli gang rape and suicide case.

Sources said barring chief secretary Aditya Prasad Padhi, principal secretary, Home, Asit Tripathy, Director General of Police (DGP) Dr RP Sharma, Crime Branch IG, Arun Bothra and Collector and SP of Koraput district appeared before the Commission.

The Commission, while expressing displeasure over the failure of the state police in nabbing the rape accused, directed the DGP and the officials to complete the process of investigation at the earliest and take necessary measures to initiate stern action.

Notably, the Commission had directed the aforesaid officials and police officers to appear before it in response to a petition filed by Koraput MLA Krushna Chandra Sagaria.

Alleging that the state police instead of nabbing the accused after seven months of the gang rape of the minor girl on October 10 last year, harassed her and her family which had forced her to commit suicide in her house at Musaguda village in Koraput district on January 22 this year, the petitioner had prayed the Commission to urgently intervene in the matter and direct the state government to order a CBI probe into the incident.