Indian
Express: Salepur: Sunday, 01 February 2015.
Body of one
40-year-old Krupasindhu Sahoo of Nachhigan village under Niali police limits,
who was missing since Monday, was exhumed by cops from the Taanla river bed
near Bhaichia-Jodibara bridge on Saturday.
Sahoo had
gone to the local market on Monday noon on a motorcycle. When he did not return
till late night and his mobile was switched off, Sahoo’s family members started
searching for him. On Tuesday, they found his two-wheeler near a temple on the
embankment of river Prachi, but the whereabouts of Sahoo was not known.
Subsequently, his wife Priya lodged a missing complaint in the Niali police
station. She alleged that her husband had received threat calls from some
villagers after he filed an RTI application to know the amount of money spent
on line transplantation of paddy saplings under the ongoing Bringing Green
Revolution in Eastern India (BGREI) project in the Krushna Prasad gram
panchayat, being implemented by Union Ministry of Agriculture to enhance
agriculture production. She further alleged that a group of villagers had
embezzled funds under BGREI and Sahoo wanted to file criminal cases against
them. Priya feared that her husband might have been kidnapped.
On a tip off,
police exhumed Sahoo’s body from the river bed and sent it to SCB Medical at
Cuttack for postmortem. As the news spread, thousands of villagers alleging
negligence on part of the police administration in dealing with the missing
case, staged road blockade on Phulnakhara-Niali State Highway-60 and in front
of Niali police station. They also demanded arrest of the accused, compensation
for the kin of the deceased and inquiry into alleged irregularities in the
BGREI scheme.
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