Law finally caught up with Baranga gang rape accused (file photo)
BHUBANESWAR: Even as mystery surrounds the circumstances that helped Bibekananda Biswal, the prime accused in 1999 Baranga gang-rape case, to evade arrest for over two decades, police have come to know that he hid himself for 15 days on the Mahanadi riverbed, on the outskirts of Cuttack after committing the offence on January 9, 1999.
“How he managed to evade the arrest for 22 years and the places where he hid is still a mystery and subject to investigation by the CBI. But he told us that he had taken shelter under a tree along an isolated stretch of Mahanadi riverbed for a fortnight from January 10, 1999 to January 25,” a senior police officer said.