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Bail plea of accused in gangrape case rejected

A Cuttack court has rejected the bail plea of Pradip Sahoo, one of the three accused in the Anjana Mishra gang- rape case.

The accused, who was produced before judicial magistrate (first class rural) Ambika Guru last night after about 36 hours of detention and interrogation at Barang police station, was sent to Choudwar jail on judicial remand.

Earlier, he was medically examined at the SCB Medical College and Hospital and then taken to the site of the crime near Barang, about 15 km from Cuttack, by a team of crime branch police now investigating the matter.

On the basis of the statement made by the accused, special squads of the state police continued to raid the possible hideouts of the two other culprits in different parts of the state.

The police claimed that the duo, both residents of Barang, were very much in the state and would be nabbed soon.

The Arrested Pradip alias Padia Sahoo had been identified by the victim and the other two witnesses, her driver and journalist Sutanu Guru, who was escorting her.

Meanwhile, Cuttack city Congress committee has demanded immediate arrest of Sutanu Guru, news editor of Orissa TV, a private TV channel, who accompanied Anjana to Cuttack in the taxi on the fateful night.

Congress city unit president Ashirbad Behera demanded that Guru be medically examined.

UNI

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