Cuttack, May 4: Orissa High Court today expressed displeasure over “inaction” of the state CID-Crime Branch in probing into the alleged Pipili gangrape case since the investigating agency had filed the chargesheet on March 10.

The court said the “inaction” could not be justified by saying the probe was on and pulled up the investigating officer. The court was monitoring the investigation into the alleged incident and treatment of the victim on a petition seeking proper inquiry, proper treatment at the expense of the state government, her rehabilitation and compensation.

The 19-year-old victim was found lying in agriculture fields on November 20 last year. Her family members had alleged gangrape. It was only after the high court intervened that the victim was admitted to SCB Medical College and Hospital for treatment on January 7.

The CID-Crime Branch today submitted a status report before the high court. But the court expressed displeasure that the report had nothing to say about the progress the investigating agency had made in terms of action taken for criminal liability of local police officers and doctors responsible for the plight of the victim.

Earlier, the CID-Crime Branch had stated that the chargesheet had been submitted in the case but investigation had been kept open to examine the criminal liability of local police officers and doctors.

The court directed the investigating officer to file an affidavit giving details of action taken as part of the investigation into the criminal liability of police officers and doctors by May 9, the date fixed for the next hearing in the case.

The division bench of Justice V. Gopala Gowda and Justice S.K. Mishra issued the direction after advocate-petitioner Prabir Kumar Das alleged laxity in the investigation and pointed out that the status report almost said nothing more than the status report submitted on April 16.

The court had on that day allowed two more weeks to the CID-Crime Branch to file its report.

In the status report submitted today, the CID-Crime Branch said it had received the inquiry report of the three-member committee headed by the director of medical education and training. But the report said nothing about action taken by the investigating agency after receiving the report on April 12.

The government had constituted the committee to inquire into the alleged negligence by the doctors attending to the victim before she was admitted to SCB on January 11.