The State Commission for Women on Monday assured to recommend crime branch inquiry into death of Pragyan Saswati Priyadarshini, a 17-year-old college student who, according to her family members, was murdered.
Women of Nairi village under Khurda district staged a demonstration before the SCW office here protesting against police inaction in investigation into the death.
The body of Pragyan, who was studying in second year of Plus Two Arts in Ravenshaw Junior College, Cuttack, was found in mysterious circumstances at Kuhudi Station between Khurda and Brahmapur Railway Station on February 27, 2016. The body had several injury marks.
“The circumstances clearly indicated that the body of my daughter had been thrown on railway track after murdering her. Although we had filed a case with Nirakarpur railway police, no investigation had been carried out to find the truth,” said Saradamani Das, mother of the victim.
Pragyan had left home for the college on morning of February 26. Her mother alleged that the police were trying to convert the case into suicidal one. The family members had met the Superintendent of the Government Railway Police at Cuttack and Inspector General of Police. But it did not yield any result. On Monday, several women accompanied the victim’s mother to the State Commission for Women. After they presented the circumstances leading to death, the Commission agreed to recommend the crime branch inquiry into the case.
“My daughter was first murdered and then the body was thrown on rail tracks”
