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Opposition BJD and Congress has blamed Odisha Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi for rising “police brutality” in the state, while demanding stringent action against officers of the force responsbile for the alleged custodial death of a labourer in Ganjam district.
Addressing separate press conferences as reported by PTI , the BJD and the Congress leaders referred to the “custodial death” of the 32-year-old man at Kabisuryanagar police station in Ganjam, “physical torture” of a woman and her son at Talchua Marine police station in Kendrapara and “severe assault” on another person in custody in Cuttack “within a span of a fortnight”.
Rejecting the opposition allegations, BJP spokesperson Manoj Mohapatra asserted that the state government has taken prompt action in all such cases.
The BJD has formed a fact-finding team headed by former MLA Ramesh Chandra Chayu Patnaik to probe into the Kabisuryanagar police station incident, where the “polio-infected” daily wage labourer Sushant Sahu died allegedly due to police torture.
Sahu, who had been detained for allegedly being part of a group that attacked police personnel last month in Ganjam, was declared dead on arrival by doctors of MKCG Medical College and Hospital in Berhampur on Sunday night.
The team will submit a report to BJD president Naveen Patnaik, a party statement said.
