One of the two convicts in the sensational Anjana Mishra gang-rape case serving life term died on Tuesday while undergoing treatment.
The convict Padia Sahu, lodged in the Jharpada jail in Bhubaneswar, had been admitted to a hospital on February 21 after he fell ill.
Notably, in 2002, the Khordha District and Sessions Judge Court sentenced Padia Sahu and Dhirendra Mohanty to life imprisonment in the Anjana gang-rape case.
Anjana was raped by three persons near Barang on the night of January 10 of 1999 while she was on her way from Cuttack to Bhubaneswar along with a journalist friend in a car.
She was raped by Padia, Dhirendra and Biban Biswal, said the CBI when it was entrusted by the Orissa High Court to probe the case.
While Padia and Dhirendra were arrested by the CBI, third accused Biban is still at large.