Three hurt in wild boar attack in K’pada
Kendrapada: Three youths were injured, including one critically, late on Tuesday night as a wild boar attacked them near Panikhia in the Gahirmatha marine sanctuary in Kendrapada district. The injured were Pintu Kar, Prasant Tripathy and Budhadeb Bera of Bagagahan village. The incident took place when the trio was returning to their houses by a motorcycle after visiting a function at Tantiapala. They were rushed to the District Headquarters Hospital, from where the seriously injured Prasant was referred to the SCB Medical College Hospital, Cuttack. locals blocked road near Milan Moda on Wednesday protesting the Forest Department’s apathy in curbing wild boar attacks and demanding erection of solar fencing along the boundary of the forest.
K’pada PHED staff threaten stir from Mar 21
Kendrapada: The State PH Engineering Workers Association district unit on Tuesday demanded fulfillment of a four-point charter of demands. They warned to hold an indefinite strike from March 21 if demands are not met. They sought rollback of a decision to merge Public Health Engineering Department at Municipality and Mahanagar Nigam, regularisation of service of the temporary workers and pension, among others. “If drinking water supply was interrupted in the State due to a strike from March 21, the Government would remain responsible for it,” the association threatened.
Ornaments worth Rs 2l, cash looted in K’pada
Kendrapada: Unidentified miscreants looted gold ornaments worth over Rs 2 lakh and cash amounting to Rs 18,000 from the house of one Sanjay Padhihary at Jaipura village under the Kendrapara police station on Tuesday night. While Sebati Padhihary, the widow mother of Sanjay, was sleeping alone in the house, the looters entered into the house by breaking its window. later, they decamped with the ornaments and cash. Following an FIR lodged at the Kendrapara Town police station on Wednesday, the police started investigation. However, no arrest has been made so far.
Ex-Asst Exe Engineer gets 28-month RI
Bhubaneswar: The Special Judge of the Bhubaneswar Special Court awarded Rigorous Imprisonment of 28 months and a fine of Rs 75,000 to ex-Assistant Executive Engineer Padma Charan Tripathy of Paralakhemundi Irrigation Sub-Division for possession of disproportionate assets worth Rs 7,47,752. Tripathy would undergo three months more jail term if he fails to pay the fine amount. On the allegation of possession of disproportionate assets, simultaneous raids had been conducted on Trpathy’s residential house at Brajanagar and his brother-in-laws’s house at Chikiti, his son-in-laws’s house at Baghalati and brother-in-laws’s house in Bhubaneswar on January 8, 1996.
Sarpanch held taking bribe in Balangir
Cuttack: Vigilance sleuths on Tuesday arrested Gerda gram panchayat sarpanch Tapan Seth of Patnagarh block in Balangir district for taking bribe. Seth had demanded Rs 5,000 from one Ram Chandra Bibhar to sanction a house under the Indira Awas Yojana in favour of his father, who happens to be a handicapped person. The complainant brought the matter to the notice of the Vigilance. The Vigilance sleuths caught the sarpanch at his brick kiln while he was receiving Rs 5,000 from complainant Ram Chandra Bibhar.