Cuttack, March 30: The judicial commission, which was probing into the alleged 2011 Pipili gangrape, has found some police officers and doctors guilty of discharging their responsibility, a highly-place source told The Telegraph.
The Pipili gangrape incident had created a political storm, prompting Pradeep Maharathy to resign from the Naveen Patnaik government after the Opposition alleged that he was protecting her attackers.
The single-member judicial commission, headed by Justice P.K. Mohanty, subm- itted its report to the state home secretary today. The commission had 66 sittings, the last being on February 2.
The victim, Babina Behera, was recovered in unconscious stage from a paddy field near Arjungoda village in Pipili police station limits on November 29, 2011. The Dalit girl was initially denied treatment at Capital Hospital in Bhubaneswar and SCB Medical College and Hospital in Cuttack. She was later admitted at the special intensive care unit at SCB on January 11, 2012, following the intervention of Orissa High Court. She died there on June 21, 2012, after remaining in coma for nearly six months.
Though the commission had issued notice to Maharathy (who was appointed agriculture minister after BJD returned to power in 2014) and the latter had submitted a reply, sources said the report had not given any findings on it as it was not in the terms of reference.
Probing the case, the CID-crime branch had also filed charge sheets against the then in charge of Pipili police station Amulya Kumar Champatiray for neglecting in registering a case. Charge sheets under the same Act had also been filed against SCB superintendent D.N. Maharana and two doctors of Capital Hospital - Milan Mitra and K.C. Sahoo.





