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Complaint by eyewitness to killing returned by officer-in-charge in Orissa
03-10-2008
Complaint by eyewitness to killing returned by officer-in-charge of police station. Rape of nun confirmed by baliguda government hospital Parvathimenon- Bhubaneswar: Ravindra Pradhan shows two unopened white envelopes, soiled and crumpled, with the acknowledgement due slip affixed, addressed to the officer-in-charge, Baliguda police station, Kandhamal district, with a scribbled noting by the postman that reads: "Address refused. Have returned back."
In them are two written complaints, the first by Ravindra Pradhan (35) on the killing of his physically challenged brother, Roshanand Pradhan, by a Hindutva(VHP, B>D) mob on the night of August 24, and the second by his niece, Ashwini Pradhan, on the burning of her house by the same mob.
Sent to the OIC of the Baliguda police station by registered post, it was refused by him and returned to them by post. Both letters mention the names of those who committed the crimes. The incident took place at Rupagaon village in the Baliguda sub-division. "When we heard the attackers entering, we ran around
"We brought this to the notice of the Governor when he came to the relief camp, but we have heard nothing further. We have not even been able to go back to the village to perform the last rites for my brother," said Motilal Pradhan, father of Ashwini and serving army jawan, who has fought in Kargil. All 38 Christian homes in the village were burnt, but not before they were looted of valuables by the mob.
This is one of the four specific incidents of violence in Kandhamal that was brought to the notice of Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Thursday by a fact-finding team comprising P.C. Thomas, Member of Parliament, and V. Surendran Pillai, Member of the Kerala Assembly, both of the Kerala Congress (Joseph).
The other incidents that the delegation has asked the Chief Minister to act on with the utmost urgency, Mr. Hindu in Bhubaneswar, are the killing of RSS leader Thomas told The Lakshmanananda Saraswathi on August 23, the rape of a nun and attack on a priest at Nuagaon village on August 25, and the murder of Divyalochan Digan, a pastor, on August
What is common in three of the four incidents is that there are eyewitnesses ready to give evidence on the precise identity of the killers"We also told him that the middle level leaders who are giving leadership to the atrocities in Kandhamal must be arrested," he said.
The team was not able to go to Kandhamal because the district was now curfew-bound. "The Chief Minister promised that he would take immediate action on all four cases. If nothing is done, then I will raise it in the next session of the Lok Sabha," Mr. Thomas said. He said his party had already demanded of the Prime Minister that a Central Bureau of Investigation probe be ordered into the Kandhamal violence. He has also formally asked the Speaker to constitute a parliamentary delegation to visit Kandhamal.
Meanwhile in a related development Rape of nun confirmed
Medical examination done at Baliguda government hospital
A medical examination conducted on the 28-year-old Catholic nun, who was sexually assaulted at K. Nuagaon in Kandhamal district on August 25, has confirmed she was raped.
“The medical examination report suggests that the nun was raped,” District Superintendent of Police Praveen Kumar told over phone from Phulbani on Thursday.
The nun, along with a Catholic priest, was publicly beaten up by a mob and she was raped in a nearby building when anti-Christian violence was at its peak in Kandhamal in the wake of the killing of Vishwa Hindu Parishad leader Swami Lakshmanananda on August 23.
The medical examination was done at the Sub-Divisional government hospital at Baliguda.
The rape case, registered under 376 and other Sections of the IPC, is being investigated under the supervision of a Deputy Superintendent of Police. Senior police officials are also monitoring the progress of the investigation, Mr. Kumar said.
The Kandhamal police are also making efforts to contact the nun, who left the district along with the priest, Father Thomas Chellan, after filing her complaint with the Baliguda police.
No one has been arrested in the rape case so far. “The Baliguda police are trying to ascertain the identity of the accused persons,” Mr. Kumar said.
In her complaint, the nun said she was ill-treated by a group of 30 to 40 persons and one from among them raped her. “We are trying our best to solve the case,” he said.
Sister Nirmala, Superior General of the Missionaries of Charity, who is here, on being informed of the result of the medical examination, told : “I am satisfied that they have established this and hope the investigation will proceed.”
Police assurance
State Director-General of Police Manmohan Praharaj told Hindu that anyone who left his home on being affected by the communal The violence and was living elsewhere could send his complaint by post to the Kandhamal Superintendent of Police.
The Kandhamal police would verify the matter and if a case was made out a formal case would be registered in the police station concerned, Mr. Praharaj said.
If it was found that a case had already been registered on the basis of a complaint filed by any of the relatives of the persons sending their complaints by post, they would be informed of it by the Kandhamal police, the DGP added.
