K’pada woman chit fund agent ends life
Kendrapada: A woman agent of a chit fund company committed suicide by hanging herself in Narsinghpur village under Marshaghai police station after the depositors kept on pestering her demanding refund of their money. Namita Samal (25) hanged herself from a tree on Sunday as she failed to refund the money to the depositors, said Kendrapada SDPO Nrusingha Charan Swain. Notably, the deceased was working with Golden land Private limited.
Two-child norm: K’pada sarpanch unseated
Kensrapada: The Civil Judge (Junior Division) court on Monday set aside the election of sarpanch of Kuhudi Gram Panchayat under Marshaghai block as he violated the “two-child norm”. Sarpanch Rajib lochana Prusty was elected last year. At the time of filing of papers, Dipti Ranjan Das, a defeated sarpanch candidate, had opposed the nomination of Prusty before the election officer and demanded rejection of his papers as he is the father of four children. But the election officer had rejected the plea of Das and the nomination papers of Prusty had been declared valid, sources said. The defeated candidate filed a case in the civil court, which, after examining the evidence, set aside the election of Prusty as he had four children and violated the Odisha Gram Panchayat Act.
7-yr-old girl dies due to snakebite
Kendrapada: Gayatri Nayak (7), a Class II student, died due to snake bite at Garama village under Janrabarimula panchayat in Derabish block. Gayatri was bitten by a viper on Sunday while she was going to latrine at the backyard of her house. She was later rushed to the SCB Medical College Hospital, but she died on the way to the hospital. With the latest case, total number of persons killed in last 15 days owing to snake bite went up to four in Kendrapada district, said sources.