AS Naidu visits riot-hit areas of Kandhamal

PHULBANI: Justice AS Naidu, who is probing into the 2008 killing of the Hindu seer in Kandhamal and the subsequent communal riots in the district, is on a four day visit to the riot-hit district from Wednesday. It was the first visit of the Commission after taking charge of the probe into the riot.

Justice Naidu on the first day visited Jaleshpeta Kanyashram where Swami Laxmananada Saraswati was murdered. He held discussions with the Ashram inmates regarding the matter. Later he visited Uttamgarh village where four people were killed during the riot and then other places to talk with people of the affected area.

He would visit other riot-hit regions during his staying in the district till March 9 and examine all the cases of violence which occurred in 2008. In the first phase of his visit, Justice Naidu held talks with the SP and the Collector over the present State of affairs in the district. He would hear the cases from the District Conference hall here.