BHUBANESWAR: Chairperson of the State Commission for Women (SCW) Jyoti Panigrahi has come in the firing line of various political parties after she submitted the report on the Pipili gangrape case to the State Government. On Saturday, the parties sought her resignation, nothing less.The Odisha Pradesh Mahila Congress (OPMC), the CPI, the CPM, the Forward Bloc, the Samajwadi Party and the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) have said if Panigrahi did not resign, the Governor should dismiss her.Addressing a media conference here on Saturday, president of the State Mahila Congress Bijaylaxmi Sahu asked how did Panigrahi come to the conclusion in the report that the allegation of sexual assault did not arise. Describing her as an agent of the BJD, Sahu said when the inquiry by the Crime Branch and the judicial probe are yet to be over, how did the SCW chairperson jump to such a conclusion. Sahu said if Panigrahi did not put in her papers, the Mahila Congress will submit a memorandum to Governor Murlidhar Chandrakant Bhandare demanding her dismissal. She threatened that the Mahila Congress will also stage a demonstration in front of the office of the SCW on Tuesday, demanding Panigrahi’s resignation. In a joint statement, State CPI secretary Dibakar Nayak, his CPM counterpart Janardan Pati, president of the State Forward Bloc Santosh Mitra, RJD State president Harish Mohapatra and SP State president Rabi Behera have alleged that the SCW chairperson has acted as an ‘advocate’ of the State Government. In her report, the SCW chairperson had said that she perused the xerox copy of the FIR and found no allegation of sexual assault on the girl nor was name of any accused person in the report. As per the FIR, relatives of the alleged victim found her lying half-naked in an unconscious state in a paddy field, Panigrahi said. A ligature mark of injury on the neck had been mentioned in the FIR. But the word rashi (rope) had been struck out, she added. Panigrahi said the medical reports of the Capital Hospital and the SCB Medical disclosed that injury in the neck was caused by partial hanging. So the allegation of sexual assault did not arise and even she was not given any kind of treatment for that ‘assault’ till December 14, she added. The SCW chief said surprisingly the guardians of the alleged victim remained silent about the incident from December 14 to January 7 without any justification. But all of a sudden they tried to approach many forums on January 7, she said.
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