BHUBANESWAR: The State
Administrative Tribunal (SAT) has quashed the dismissal order given by the
State Government on former inspector in-charge of Pipili police station Amulya
Kumar Champatiray in connection with the gang-rape in Pipili, said a lawyer on
Wednesday.
Champatiray was transferred to
the headquarters and subsequently suspended later on Jan 13 last year and then
he was dismissed after 10 days for not taking necessary action in the case and allegedly
suppressing the issue. Dissatisfied IIC had moved the SAT against the Government
action.
After hearing the police officer’s
plea, the tribunal quashed the order stating that action against Champatiray
had been taken without giving him chances to defend, his lawyer MK Balabantaray
told reporters here. However, the tribunal in its order said the Government may
initiate departmental proceedings against the IIC, the lawyer informed.
Notably, Champatiray was dismissed
for not registering a case of a dalit girl who was allegedly gang-raped by a
few people near her village Arjunagoda on Nov 28, 2011. Various NGOs, social organisations, civil
society and women bodies had demanded dismissal of the then Pipili IIC.
The gang-rape victim succumbed to
her injuries at the hospital bed of the SCB
Medical College
and hospital at Cuttack on June 21
last year.
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