Bharatiya Bikash Parisad State president Surendra Panigrah has filed a public interest litigation (PIL) in the Orissa High Court for its intervention for a CBI inquiry into the death of a detainee at the Golanthara police station under the Brahmapur police district in Ganjam district on April 3.
Panigrahi stated that Ganesh Dakua’s death was not due to suicide as claimed by police. Under pressure from the Rangeilunda Panchayat Samiti and a ruling party youth leader, the Golanthara police tortured and killed the young man of Rangipur village. Panigrahi also urged the court to take action against the Golanthara police and the youth leader for allegedly harassing Dakua.
He alleged that the youth leader’s supporters had thrashed Dakua before he was picked up from the village by the police. When the police shifted Dakua to the hospital and when his mother and wife went there they did not allow them to meet him.
But when his postmortem was conducted, they said that Dakua had committed suicide in the police station by hanging himself with his belt. Panigrahi alleged that the senior police officials investigating into the case are not conduction proper investigations as a influential ruling party leader is involved in the case.
So, only a CBI inquiry can unearth the truth and provide justice to the victim’s family.
Panigrahi has also demanded the National Human Rights Commission that the elderly mother of Dakua and his wife should be paid compensation for their sustenance ,as they have lost the sole earning member of the family.