Cuttack, June 19: Orissa High Court today disposed of a PIL on the alleged Pipili gangrape case following submission of a status report by the CID-Crime Branch listing the chargesheets filed in the case.
Activist and high court bar member Prabir Kumar Das had filed the petition.
As the CID-Crime Branch said four chargesheets — two against the accused persons and another two against police officers and doctors — have been submitted, the division bench of Chief Justice V. Gopala Gowda and Justice S.K. Mishra disposed of the petition saying “there is no need to keep the PIL pending any longer”.
The court, however, gave the petitioner the liberty to approach it again in case of negligence in the victim’s treatment and advised to move the trial court in case of grievance related to investigation.
Investigating officer Ramesh Chandra Sethi said a chargesheet was submitted against former inspector in charge of Pipili police station Amulya Kumar Champatiray after “it was prima facie made out that he was negligent in attending to the matter in its proper perspective to secure justice to the victim girl”.
In the status report, Sethi said investigation had revealed that during the victim’s treatment at SCB from November 29, 2011 to December 14, 2011 “the medical authority had not given proper attention to the victim of a medico-legal case”.
“Neither had they informed the police about the discharge of a serious patient. In summing up the liabilities of the SCB physicians, Dr D.N. Maharana, the head of the treating unit, is responsible for the offence,” the report said.
While holding Milan Mitra of Capital Hospital, who had examined and given the victim first-hand treatment, “solely responsible for not intimating the nearest police station regarding such a medico-legal case”, the report said K.C. Sahoo (medicine specialist) “had not used his prudent knowledge to diagnose the case as hypoxic cerebral encephalopathy for which he should have searched for the cause of such hypoxic state ”.
Sethi said chargesheets were submitted against the three doctors, but the “investigation is kept open to examine the victim in the event she recovers from coma”.
