A case has been filed at the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) over mental and physical torture to a rights activist for providing vital documents to the CBI in the chit fund case and becoming a witness in the AT Group chit fund scam. One Tapan Kumar Mohanty (33) has provided a lot of information and documentary proof to the Special Investigation Team of the CBI probing the chit fund case and the Central agency made him a witness in the preliminary chargesheet of Artha Tatwa chit fund scam. Since then his life is always under threat. Even Bhubaneswar CBI SP has written to his higher authorities for necessary measures suspecting the threat to his life, sources said.
Sources said Tapan has shared documentary evidence with the CBI about the involvement of one senior DIG level IPS officer and former Advocate General Asok Mohanty in AT chit fund scam. Sources said the Chhendipada police arrested Tapan on March 22, beaten him mercilessly at the police station without any reason and even engaged a woman namely Tuni Sahu to lodge a false FIR against him at the behest of the former AG and the senior DIG rank police officer. According to the victim, the FIR was written by ASI AK Tripathy inside the Chendipada police station and Tuni Sahu was compelled to sign in the FIR.later, Tapan was arrested and forwarded to court and released on bail. Rights activist Jayanta Kumar Das has filed the petition at the NHRC urged it to ensure adequate security to Tapan as he is a witness in the AT chit fund case.