Odishatv Bureau

Cuttack: The Orissa High Court on Wednesday expressed its displeasure over the failure of the Odisha Crime Branch to submit the status report on investigation into the death of social activist Aditya Dash.

While hearing a petition, the court directed the probe agency to submit the updated status report by November 11 and scheduled the next hearing on the same day.

Earlier, Bidyashree, wife of the late Dash and her in-laws, had moved the HC complaining about the tardy pace of investigation into the death of her husband by the Crime Branch. She had urged the court to order an investigation into the case by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).

The High Court had asked the Crime Branch to submit a detailed status report on the investigation within one month time.

On July 7, Aditya’s body was found along the railway tracks near Lingaraj Railway Station in Bhubaneswar. On July 30, the Director General of Odisha Police ordered the Crime Branch to take over the investigation of Aditya Dash’s death case.

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