CP Sudhanshu Sarangi on Monday announced the arrest (file photo)
BHUBANESWAR: It will be a testing time for the CBI to piece together credible evidence against 1999 Baranga gang-rape case’s main accused Bibekananda Biswal, who was nabbed by the commissionerate police on February 22 after being on the run for the last 22 years.
Experts feel the inordinate delay in the arrest of the main accused may weaken the prosecution’s stand during the fresh trial at this stage. “Earlier, the trial was split as Pradeep Sahu and Dhirendra Mohanty, the two other co-accused were awarded life imprisonment in April 2002. Now the fresh trial would start against Biswal. There will be challenges for the prosecution to succeed in the trial test,” senior Orissa high court lawyer Bibhu Prasad Tripathy said.