Cuttack: The sensational Nayagarh minor girl death case took a new twist, Thursday.
Voluntary organisation Bharat Vikas Parishad filed a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) in the Orissa High Court seeking a CBI probe into the minor’s death.
The petitioner also demanded the state government to give Rs 25 lakh compensation to the girl’s parents in their petition. The state government and Nayagarh district administration have been made parties in the PIL.
On the other hand, Minister of State for Home Department Dibya Shankar Mishra Wednesday said that the Odisha Crime Branch will take charge of the investigation.
The parents of the girl Tuesday attempted self-immolation in front of the Odisha Assembly while the Winter Session 2020 was underway.
After being whisked away by the police from Odisha Assembly area, the parents said they were at the end of their tether. Feeling dejected over the way the police and district administration are handling the case so far, they had decided to end their lives in front of the Assembly.
“We are yet to get justice for our Pari (victim). No one is listening to our complaints. Instead of delivering justice to us, we are being harassed. There is no reason for us to live,” Pari’s father said.
Meanwhile, the police had conducted a polygraph test on Pari’s parents, her uncle (father’s elder brother) and aunt (wife of father’s elder brother). The cops are now awaiting the reports to take further action.
Notably, the five-year-old girl child was found dead at Jadupur village under Sadar police limits of Nayagarh district under mysterious circumstances June 14. Her body was recovered from a spot only 50 metres away from the place where she went missing June 23.
The Nayagarh Sadar police had registered a case under Sections 363, 364, 302, and 201 of the IPC on the basis of a complaint lodged by the couple.
PNN
