CP Sudhanshu Sarangi on Monday announced the arrest (file photo)
BHUBANESWAR: It will be a testing time for the CBI to piece together credible evidence against 1999 Baranga gang-rape case’s main accused Bibekananda Biswal, who was nabbed by the commissionerate police on February 22 after being on the run for the last 22 years.
Experts feel the inordinate delay in the arrest of the main accused may weaken the prosecution’s stand during the fresh trial at this stage. “Earlier, the trial was split as Pradeep Sahu and Dhirendra Mohanty, the two other co-accused were awarded life imprisonment in April 2002. Now the fresh trial would start against Biswal. There will be challenges for the prosecution to succeed in the trial test,” senior Orissa high court lawyer Bibhu Prasad Tripathy said.
Theatre lovers in the city are back to the auditoriums after the state government allowed reopening of these exhibition centres and rehearsal of theatre troupes
Theatre lovers in the city are back to the auditoriums after the state government allowed reopening of these exhibition centres and rehearsal of theatre troupes. After around one year, they got to watch a series of plays staged at Rabindra Mandap this week.
People watched five plays in five evenings from different parts of the country in the 23rd Kalinga Natya Mahotsav organised by Satabdira Kalakara, a city-based theatre group. In this multilingual national theatre festival, plays from Assam, Bengal, Andhra Pradesh, Patna and Bhubaneswar were staged.
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BHUBANESWAR: People entering Odisha by trains and flights from 12 other states and UTs which have been witnessing a spurt in Covid-19 infections will be screened for possible infections, the state health authorities said on Thursday.
Additional chief secretary (health) Pradipta Kumar Mohapatra said people coming from or through Maharashtra, Kerala, Telangana, Chhattisgarh, West Bengal, Delhi, Punjab, Chandigarh, Madhya Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh will be screened at their point of arrival. “Those with any symptom will be put test. Anyone found positive will stay in isolation, preferably home isolation,” he said.
Mohapatra wrote to all the district collectors and municipal commissioners to ensure thermal screening of passengers coming from these states in airports and railway stations. Those with fever will be subjected to rapid antigen test on the site itself. Since there is a spike in cases, this is necessary to prevent infection