Ex-Jatni MlA Sarat Paikray passes away
Bhubaneswar: Senior BJD leader and former two-time Jatni MlA Sarat Paikray passed away at the AIIMS in New Delhi on late Friday night. He was 60. Paikray was a prominent student leader the Students’ Union president of KBDAV College, Nirakarpur and general secretary of Anandpur College Students’ Union. He was arrested under MISA during Emergency in 1975. He had won the Jatni Assembly seat as a Janata Dal candidate in 1990 and later as a BJD candidate in 2004. He was also Chairman of the Odisha State Housing Board. Family sources said Paikray’s body would be brought to his village where his last rites would be performed.
Rout elected B’pur Coop Store for 7th term
Brahmapur: Sudhir Kumar Rout has been elected unopposed as the president of the Brahmapur Cooperative Store consecutively for a seventh term. He was the only candidate who had filed nomination for the post. Those elected as directors include Purnna Chandra Nayak, Santosh Choudhury, Govinda Chandra Gouda, Murali Pradhan, Saraswati Sahu and Ranjit Patra. Rout was president of the Baiganbadi Cooperative Welfare Society in Ganjam for seven times. He also held the post of Director of the Brahmapur Cooperative Central Bank, director of the District Cooperative Society and director of the State Consumer Cooperative Federation.
Ghatagaon Asst Engineer held taking bribe
Cuttack: Vigilance sleuths on Friday arrested Keonjhar district’s Ghatagaon Minor Irrigation Assistant Engineer Gajulu Prakash Raoon the charge of demanding and accepting bribe of `40,000 from a person to prepare a bill. Acting on complaint of Sk Abdul Jalil of Santarapur villge the Vigilance sleuths laid a trap and caught the Assistant Engineer taking the bribe amount from the complainant.
K’put woman teacher in Vig net
Cuttack: Vigilance police on Friday conducted simultaneous raids on the residences of Koraput district’s Dubuli Primary School Assistant Teacher Geeta Rani Sahu while acting on an allegation of accumulation of assets in excess of her known source of income. Sahu’s residential house at Govinda Apartment at laxmisagar in Bhubaneswar, residential house at Dolamandap Street at Jeypore in Koraprt district and her brother’s house at Irrigation Colony at Jeypore were searched.
Youth held for killing elderly for ‘witchcraft’
Rourkela: The lahunipada police in Sundargarh district on Saturday afternoon arrested one Pandu Munda (28) for allegedly killing a 65-year-old man on the same day suspecting him of practising witchcraft. The deceased was identified as Kalia Munda, alias Phatkar Munda of Saleipali village in Sundargarh district. Pandu, who was residing with his wife and two children nearby Kalia’s home, suspected that his younger daughter has been falling sick for the last few months due to Kalia’s witchcraft practices. On Saturday morning, Pandu in a fit of rage grabbed Kalia’s head and hit it against a concrete road several times till Kalia died on the spot.