Odisha Congress Forms Committee To Probe Cases Of Atrocities On Women

Bhubaneswar: Alleging that violence against women recorded an alarming rise in Odisha, the Congress has announced the formation of a fact-finding committee to probe such incidents.

In a statement, the state unit of Congress claimed that at least seven women face atrocities every day across the state. Over 1,600 cases of atrocities on women have been reported in the state during the last eight months of the BJP rule, it alleged.

In view of rise in incidents of violence against women, new state Congress president Bhakta Charan Das has constituted the seven-member committee headed by former minister Nagendra Pradhan, the statement said.

The team also comprises three women members and will investigate all the incidents by touring various districts, it said.

Besides Pradhan, former MLA Sujit Padhi, legislators Sophia Firdous and Satyajit Gamang, AICC women’s Congress secretary Sasmita Behera, and party leaders Manas Malik and Lipika Majhi are the members.

The committee will soon visit various districts, inspect such incident sites, investigate these cases and provide detailed information to the Pradesh Congress Committee, a party leader said.