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Prime Accused in Odisha Gangrape Case That Led to CM s Resignation Arrested After 22 Years Described as the turning point in the Odisha political history, the gangrape cost Congress its last government in the state under J.B. Patnaik in 1999, and the party never regained power. Representative photo: Public domain Women23/Feb/2021 New Delhi: The prime accused in a sensational gangrape that shook Odisha in its aftermath in 1999 and resulted in the resignation of the then Congress chief minister J.B. Patnaik is finally in the police net. While the two other accused, who were later convicted, had been arrested within weeks after the crime in 1999, the prime accused had been evading arrest for over two decades. One of the convicts had even died last year while serving life imprisonment, while the other is still lodged in jail. Police who nabbed the prime accused say that he was “sure” that he would not be caught in his lifetime, and had taken over a new iden ....