Two days after one Saroj Sethy, a college student, from Jadupur village in Nayagarh district accused IPS officer Arun Bothra of offering him Rs 5 lakh to own blame for five-year-old Pari’s murder, the Special Investigation Team (SIT) headed by Bothra on Saturday picked him up along with his mother and sister from the village for interrogation at an undisclosed place in connection with Pari’s abduction and murder case.
On Thursday, Saroj had alleged that Bothra offered him Rs 5 lakh to take blame for Pari’s murder before the SIT.
The startling revelation came a day after the SIT submitted an affidavit in the Orissa High Court stating that Pari was sexually assaulted before being killed.