Bhubaneswar: The 19-year-old Dalit rape victim of Pipili died on Thursday after remaining in coma for more than six months with her father demanding capital punishment for the culprits.
She died of septicaemia, severe respiratory and cardiological complications, Dr BN Maharana, emergency officer of Cuttack's SCB Medical College Hospital, told reporters.
The girl, who was raped and an attempt made to strangulate her on November 28 last year, was admitted at the medical college hospital on January 11 following intervention of Orissa High Court.
The case relating to assault on the girl was being probed by the Crime Branch of Odisha Police which had so far filed four charge sheets against eight people, including a dismissed police inspector and three doctors....
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01:46 AM, Jun 22, 2012
Cuttack: A day after the Orissa High Court disposed of a PIL pertaining to police investigation and treatment of the Pipili gang rape victim, the Justice PK Mohanty Commission probing the incident on Wednesday issued notices to the state asking it to submit the case diaries. The commission, which had earlier issued notices to as many as five doctors, including the charge-sheeted Superintendent of SCB Medical College and Hospital DN...
12:24 AM, Jun 21, 2012
Cuttack: The crime branch, which is probing the Pipili rape case, on Tuesday filed its fourth charge sheet warranting trial of SCB Medical College superintendent DN Moharana and two other doctors. The Judicial Commission, inquiring the same matter, also issued notices to Moharana and six others asking them to file their affidavit before it by June 30. The crime branch police, who had earlier filed charge sheets in the case...
11:38 PM, Jun 12, 2012
Cuttack: Prima facie criminal liability has been established against a dismissed police inspector in the rape of a 19-year-old girl at Pipli in November 2011, police on Wednesday informed the Orissa High Court. Filing an affidavit, crime branch DSP Ramesh Chandra Sethy said that inspector Amulya Kumar Champatiray, who was officiating as inspector-in-charge of Pipili police station in Puri district at the time of the incident, had wilfully neglected an...
01:46 AM, May 10, 2012
Cuttack: The condition of the Pipili rape victim, who is on life support system for the past 24 hours, is showing little improvement after developing further complications, doctors attending on her said on Tuesday. A team of senior doctors of SCB medical college and hospital in Cuttack are attending on the 19-year-old Dalit girl, under treatment in "semi-comatose" state since January 11. She developed breathing problems on Monday evening. Doctors...
10:33 PM, Mar 20, 2012
New Delhi: The crime branch of Odisha Police probing the sensational Pipili Dalit rape case has filed a chargesheet on Saturday. The chargesheet says the arrested prime accused attempted to murder the victim but there is no evidence of rape. The crime branch earlier submitted a medical examination report prepared by experts from AIIMS to the Orissa High Court. Submitting the report in a sealed cover, the government advocate prayed...
06:47 PM, Mar 10, 2012
Cuttack: The crime branch of Odisha Police probing the sensational Pipili Dalit rape case on Friday submitted a medical examination report prepared by experts from AIIMS to the Orissa High Court. Submitting the report in a sealed cover, the government advocate prayed that since the case is under investigation, the contents of the AIIMS report may not be made public now lest it hamper further probe. The police also submitted...
11:42 PM, Feb 10, 2012
New Delhi: Odisha Agriculture Minister Pradeep Maharathy, who has been facing controversy in Pipili rape case, has resigned on Thursday. Maharathy has been in the line of fire for the past one week following allegations that he had harboured those accused of raping and attempting to kill a 19-year-old girl at Pipili in Puri district on November 28. After increasing public and political pressure for its lapses in the alleged...
10:49 AM, Jan 19, 2012
