School-teacher ‘murder’: BJP to send a three-member team to Odisha

Tribune News Service

New Delhi, October 26

The BJP will send a three-member team to Odisha to prepare a report on the alleged murder of a young school teacher in the state’s Kalahandi district. Party spokesperson Sambit Patra said BJP president JP Nadda has taken the decision to send the team to the state.

The BJP has demanded Odisha minister of state for home Dibya Shankar Mishra’s removal over his alleged proximity to the man arrested for the alleged murder. It had also organised bandhs in Kalahandi and Balangir districts last week to protest against the state’s response to the incident

Patra claimed that the police refused to register an FIR as “the minister’s credibility was at stake. Following pressure from the opposition parties, the police had to register the FIR”, Patra said. He alleged illegal activities were going on in the hostel of the school, where the teacher taught, and innocent girls and teachers were being victimised.