Superintendent of Police B Jugal Kishore, taking a tough step towards an erring police officer, placed him under suspension.
The officer is Rajendra Kumar Nayak, ASI, posted in the Sahadevkhunta Model Police Station.
According to sources, a woman of Kalidaspur had lodged an FIR alleging that property including cash
Rs 60,000 and gold ornaments worth lakhs were stolen from her residential house on June 27 and she
mentioned the name of the suspect in her compliant.
The case was assigned to Nayak for investigation and action . Yet the victim didn’t find any relief. On the other hand, she was meted out with harassment.
The complainant alleged to the SP and the Deputy Inspector General (Eastern range), alleging that her case was not properly investigated by the investigating officer.
The complainant, Prabhati Pattnaik, wife of late Rajat Pattnaik, besides expressing her grievance before the police officers at their residential quarters, also attended the weekly grievance redressal meeting of the district administration on Monday.
The SP after taking stock of the case and its progress suspended Nayak on the charge of dereliction in duty.
In the meanwhile, in another development, the Sahadevkhunta police arrested the accused involved in the vandalizing of a statue of Mahatma Gandhi which was installed in Sobharampur School, triggering a lot of commotion in the area.
He was identified as Binod Bagal of village Chudakutsahi.
A room christened ‘Bapuji Kakhya’ in the Government run upper primary school as a mark ofhonour to the father of the nation was also found ransacked, with cigarette butts and empty liquor bottles strewn around.
The matter came to light when some locals entered the school premises after noticing that a couple of trees planted inside the compound were felled.