The CBI on Thursday grilled Rayagada district’s Tikiri Primary School former Headmaster Chandrasekhar Panda in connection with the murder of schoolteacher Itishree Pradhan for around five hours at its camp office at the Collectorate here.
The top Central investigating agency began its fifth phase probe into the incident on Wednesday. Besides grilling Panda, CBI DSP M Pathak and Inspector RD Sharma also grilled former Assistant Teacher and school hostel superintendent Yogeswar Benia and cook Sashi Bhusan Naik.
Sources said Panda was grilled for fourth time and he would be questioned further.
Itishree had started getting torture during the tenure of Netrananda Dandasena as the Headmaster of the school. later, he was succeeded by Chandrasekhar Panda, who had allowed Itishree to stay in a room inside the school hostel premises.
Itishree, who had been set ablaze by some unidentified persons in her room, succumbed to grievous burn injuries on October 27, 2013 at a Vizag hospital.