G Udayagiri: The 26-year-old Odisha youth killed near Hampi in Karnataka was laid to rest at the Mission Campus at G Udayagiri on Sunday evening.
Bibash Nayak, an enthusiastic traveller and adventure-lover, met with a tragic end when he along with two male co-travellers attempted to intervene when two women, including a foreign national, were allegedly raped by three construction workers, who were “under the influence of illegal substances”, near the Hampi heritage site in Karnataka on March 6 night. Body of the 26-year-old, who had been missing since then, was recovered from Tungabhadra River canal on March 8 morning.
He died after allegedly being pushed into the canal.
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Bibash, who was a native of Derabadi village in Kandhamal district, worked in the administrative department at St Stephen’s Hospital, Delhi. His father Bijay Kumar Nayak is the sixteenth Moderator of the Church of North India (CNI) as well as Bishop, Diocese of Agra, CNI.
Bhibas was the younger of two siblings.
His uncle, Ajay Nayak, had gone to Karnataka to receive the body, which was brought back to his village on Sunday afternoon. Hundreds of mourners gathered to bid him farewell as the funeral procession began around 4 pm, sources said.
Arrests in the case
While two accused were arrested on March 8, the third was apprehended in Tamil Nadu, where he had fled after the crime, on Sunday. They were initially booked Sections 309(6) (theft of extortion), 311 (robbery with intent to cause death or serious injury), 70(1) (gang-rape), and 109 (attempt to murder) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) has been registered in the case and later charged with murdering Bibash.
Following the incident, the Karanataka government has instructed the police to enhance security for tourists to prevent such incidents in the future.
