NATIONAL COMMISSION FOR WOMEN STARTED PROBING INTO THE MOST SENSATIONAL PIPLI GANG RAPE

NATIONAL COMMISSION FOR WOMEN STARTED PROBING INTO THE MOST SENSATIONAL PIPLI GANG RAPE 3/02/2012
ODISHA NEWS:


A three-member team of the National Commission for Women (NCW) headed by its member secretary Anita Agnihotri begins probe into Pipili gangrape case. On Thursday the delegation held talks with doctors, police and family members of the Pipili gang-rape victim.


The NCW team met the victim's family at SCB Medical College hospital here where the 19-year-old girl is undergoing treatment in coma stage. The team also met State DGP Manmohan Praharaj, Crime Branch ADG Abhay and other investigating officers at the police headquarters here. The team also met the doctors at the SCB and at Bhubaneswar where the victim had undergone treatment in two separate phases. The team is also scheduled to visit the girl's native village in Pipili under Puri district on Friday.


Speaking to media persons after visiting the hospital, Agnihotri expressed satisfaction over the management of treatment now being provided to the victim. "It was shocking to see the condition of the victim. But the quality of treatment now being provided here is the best available in the State," she said.


Sources also said that the investigating police officers also apprised the team about the progress made till now in the case after the Crime Branch took up investigation on January 10. Sources also pointed out that the NCW team would submit a report to the Commission which, in turn, would send its recommendations to the State Government within 10 days.


In Bhubaneswar, Agnihotri visited the Capital Hospital where the gang rape victim was first admitted for treatment and held detailed discussion on the kind of treatment provided and the condition of the victim during admission.

SIDDHARTHA SHANKAR MISHRA,
BUREAU CHIEF, THESE DAYS,
ODISHA