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.
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After 22 years, prime accused in sensational Odisha gangrape case nabbed
The incident, the occurred in 1999, had created a state-wide outrage and led to the resignation of the then Odisha CM JB Patnaik. Representative image (Source: Thinkstock)
Updated: Feb 23, 2021, 02:49 PM IST
After a long time of 22 years, the prime accused in the sensational gangrape case in Odisha was held from Maharashtra on Monday. The case involved the estranged wife of an IFS officer and had caught major attention as it led to the resignation of the then state CM JB Patnaik.
As per the police, Bibekananda Biswal alias Biban was nabbed from Aamby Valley in Lonavala in Maharashtra. He had assumed the fake identity of Jalandhar Swain and was working there as a plumber.