The Odisha police are yet to find any concrete evidences against any Government official in the recent sensitive Kalahandi incident. The incident involved Dana Majhi (42), who carried the body of his wife on his shoulders for around 12 km as no vehicle or ambulance was provided by the district administration.
“During inquiry no such concrete corroborative evidence could be found out. More over the hospital staff and passer by people were not focused any clue regarding non co-operation made by the Hospital staffs, staffs of ADMO and CDMO offices so far. The matter is still under inquiry,” said a statement of the Bhawanipatna Town police.
The inquiry was conducted acting on the complaint filed by rights campaigner Subhash Mohapatra, who had made allegation against the Kalahandi district Collector, the CDMO and other concerned public authorities for deprivation, abuse and denial of basic facilities to Dana Majhi.
He alleged that the CDMO has shielded his colleagues and tried to whitewash the evidence by abusing and putting the blame on the tribal man that he did not contact anybody for a vehicle to take the body from the hospital to his village.
The complainant further had stated that Dana Majhi was also not allowed to perform the last rites of his wife as the Sub-Collector forcibly took him along with his minor daughter to Bhawanipatna to record their statements. Mohapatra said the district Collector threatened the tribal man and asked him whether he had killed his wife.
“The non-finding of any clue exposes how the Odisha police are failed wilfully. Though it is mandatory for registration of first information report (FIR) into cognizable offence as the guidelines issued by Supreme Court, Odisha Police did not register the FIR,” alleged Mohapatra.
Odisha earned a bad name when locals found Majhi carrying his wife Amang Dei’s body on his shoulders, wrapped in clothes, along with his 12-year old daughter last month. The 40-year-old woman had died of TB at the District Headquarters Hospital at Bhawanipatna.