Judicial probe ordered into police firing in Orissa

Authority in Orissa’s Dhenkanal district has ordered for a judicial probe into an incident of police firing that left one person dead and many injured during a protest by locals who were agitating against the killing of a school boy.

According to local media reports, over 500 people were protesting at the local Bhuban police station demanding the arrest of the murderer and compensation for the victim’s family, but the situation went out of control and police was forced to open fire, leaving one dead.

On Sunday, under mysterious circumstances the body of a Class-X student Bimalendu Nayak was found dead in a pond at Dhenkanal, 80 km away from Bhuban. The boy from Bhuban High School was a meritorious student, appearing in the board exams.

Meanwhile, the district administration has suspended the in charge of the police station and announced Rs. 1, 00,000 ex gratia for the family of Duryodhan Malik (45), killed in the firing.

The murder of the school boy is still under investigation and so far the police is clueless about the motive of the murder. However, local people see it as the result of the rivalry between two tutorial institutions that were trying to bring this brilliant student to their institute soon after the exams.

Bimalendu went missing after the first paper of the ongoing HSC examination. His family had registered an FIR in the Bhuban police station.