Expressing dissatisfaction over the inaction of the police in the arrest of the accused, who had pushed a pregnant woman out of a moving train in Rayagada district on May 26, the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has asked the district SP to submit an action-taken report (ATR) in the case.
Informing this to the media on Wednesday, Rayagada SP K Siva Subramani said the commission has asked the police to provide the background to the incident, circumstances which forced Suraj Sahu of Bangomunda village of Sundargarh district to push his wife Sanju Kerketa out of the train, steps taken for the treatment of the injured woman and the steps taken by the police to nab the absconding husband.
The SP said the two special teams of the Rayagada police during a series of raids at several places in the Bisra, Rourkela and Sundargarh areas, have found that the statements given by the injured woman to the police are false.He said the police would accompany the woman and begin fresh investigation after her recovery.The woman, in the meanwhile, has successfully undergone a surgery on her left leg at the VSS Medical College Hospital at Burla, he added.