National Commission for Women (NCW) Chairperson Mamata Sharma will visit the State on June 22 and 23 to take stock of the investigation process of the rape and murder of the minor blind girl of Tala Bedal village under the Sadar police station in Puri district on June 7 and also will meet her family members.
According to sources, Sharma will reach the State on June 22 and the next day she along with NCW member Manasi Pradhan will visit the victim’s native village to meet the victim’s parents.
Sources further revealed that after meeting the victim’s parents, she would hold a meeting with senior State and Puri district administration officials and review the investigation process.
On June 5 night, miscreants broke open the door of the 14-year-old blind and deaf girl’s room and abducted her. Then they took her to a nearby forest and killed her after raping her.
The Puri police have so far arrested only one person in this connection.