A railway ministry spokesperson said that Mohanty took over the charge as Member Operations and Business Development and Ex Officio Secretary to the government on Saturday.The
DGP Abhay felicitates the team of police officers, including Bhubaneswar-Cuttack police commissioner Sudhanshu Sarangi, who were part of operation Silent Viper that led to the main accused’s arrest after 22 years.
BHUBANESWAR: Even as mystery surrounded 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 had hidden himself for 15 days on the Mahanadi riverbed, on the outskirts of Cuttack after committing the offence on January 9, 1999.
Though the case is being probed by the CBI, the commissionerate police traced Biswal to Lonavala in Maharashtra after 22 years and handed him over to the Central probe agency on Monday.