Accused in Odisha gangrape case nabbed

Prasanta Pradhan alias Pasei, the principal accused in the sensational case relating to the gang rape of a Dalit girl at Pipli in Odisha’s coastal Puri district was arrested on Sunday from Jatni—a neighbouring district of Khurda.
He was nabbed by a special team of the crime branch of the state police while reportedly trying to flee from the state.   The crime branch which is probing into the sensitive case which has already triggered a political row in Odisha after the victim’s family named supporters of the state agriculture minister and Pipli BJD MLA Pradip Maharathi as the perpetrators of the crime, and had released Pradhan’s photograph to the press on Saturday.

Police had also released photographs of the other three accused in the case who are still at large.
However, crime branch sources said, efforts are being made to nab the three absconders at the earliest. “We have formed four teams who are currently conducting raids at various places within the state,” a senior crime branch official connected to the investigation told Deccan Herald on Sunday