Protestors take away Kunduli gang rape victim’s body from hospital, demand CBI probe and action against officials

Koraput, Jan 23: Tension is mounting in Kunduli as the agitated villagers and Congress leaders took away the body of the Kunduli gang rape victim who committed suicide yesterday.

They staged a road blockade keeping the body on the road demanding CBI probe and action against the officials and doctors holding them responsible for the tragic incident.
The demonstrators did not allow the administration to take the body to Koraput for post mortem and forcibly took away the body from the hospital this morning and kept it near the Kunduli Haat blocking the NH 26 between Koraput and Visakhapatnam.
The agitators also burnt tyres on the road in protest against the suicide of the Kunduli gang rape victim and demanded that the Koraput District Collector, Superintendent of police and the DIG besides the doctors who ruled out rape be suspended and action against them be initiated.
Former Congress MP from Nabarangpur Pradeep Kumar Majhi led the demonstration and staged road blockade on the NH 26.Shops, business establishments in the area closed as tension prevailed in the area.
Meanwhile, the BJP has called for a 12-hour bandh in the undivided Koraput district tomorrow protesting against the suicide of Kunduli gang rape victim and a CBI probe into the incident. 
Koraput Collector, Sub Collector, and Semiliguda Tehsildar have reached the agitation spot and trying to pacify the agitators to hand over the body of the victim girl for post mortem. 
The minor dalit girl, a student of class IX, had alleged that she was gang raped by four men in uniform on October 10 last but the police quoting the medical examination report had stated that there is no truth in her statement.
The government had accorded the case as Red Flag handed over the investigation to the Crime Branch and ordered a judicial commission headed by the District judge of Koraput to probe into the incident .
The victim girl had all along been alleging that the police have pressurized her to change her statement and withdraw the FIR. 
She had even attempted to commit suicide on November 18 last after which she was admitted to the SCB Medical College and Hospital at Cuttack and was discharged on November 27 last.
After her discharge from the hospital, the girl was under tremendous mental agony and maintained that she will not get the justice form the police and the administration.
Ultimately, the girl took the extreme step to end her life and committed suicide in her home yesterday by hanging herself with a scarf when the family members were not at home.
She was rescued in a critical condition and taken to the Kunduli Community Health Centre where the doctor declared her as received dead. UNI