The Justice PK Mohanty Commission of Enquiry probing into the sensational Pipili gangrape and murder case of 2011 on Saturday issued notice to dismissed police inspector Amulya Kumar Champatiray to depose before the commission on February 7 and face cross examination.
Champatiray was in-charge officer of the Pipili police station when the incident took place in November 2011and had initially refused to register a case when the rape victim’s father Babuli Behera informed him about the incident. Champatiray however, was suspended and subsequently dismissed from service in 2012.
Allowing a petition by Babuli Behera’s lawyer Nishikant Mishra, the Commission felt it necessary to cross examine Champatiray. Three witnesses of Champatiray had already been cross examined by the commission in July last year. Witnesses Pradyumna Subudhi and Sushant Kumar Mallick, have told the commission that they were present inside the police station on that day when Babuli Behera came to lodge the complaint.
Meanwhile, Puri district DSP Manoranjan Samal on the day filed an affidavit before the Commission on behalf of the Puri SP stating that no departmental action was taken against Champatiray for the dereliction of duty.