Cuttack, Aug. 22: Orissa High Court has decided to take up for consideration the PIL seeking a CBI probe into the death of Hindol block panchayat samiti chairman Nabaghana Sahoo after perusal of the case diary.

The police had registered a case after finding prima facie evidence of murder.

The PIL alleges involvement of women and child welfare minister Anjali Behera in the incident. The court expects the Orissa government to submit the case diary by Friday, the day fixed for hearing on it.

BJD leader Nabaghana Sahoo had died on May 14 after being hit by a jeep while he was returning home from his cashew field, which was one-and-a-half kilometre away from his village Ganjara.

His brother, Muralidhar, however, alleged that Sahoo had been murdered and lodged an FIR at Rasol police station suspecting involvement of four persons.

The state CID-crime branch took over the probe into the case on June 1. Subsequently, Dhenkanal Nagarika Mancha convener Prasanta Kumar Mishra and nine others had filed the PIL, which came up for hearing on Friday. Durmila Sahoo, the mother of the deceased, also filed a petition on that day seeking CBI probe into Sahoo’s death.

“Taking note of it, the two-judge bench of Chief Justice V. Gopala Gowda and Justice B.N. Mohapatra directed the Orissa government to produce the up-to-date case diary within a week,” additional government advocate B.K. Nayak said.