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Damodarpur village is situated under Rasulpur Tahasil and Kuakhia Police Station in Jajpur district. Abhiram Paramhansa High School is one prime educational institution in the village. It is established in 1990s in the name of the spiritual yogi Abhiram. Every year the annual function of Abhiram Paramhansa is celebrated in the school with much pump and ceremony. A big feast is organised during the celebration every year. For the function contributions are collected from each household. Every family take part in the function and those are entrusted with responsibilities, they perform that. There has not been any report of issues of caste based discrimination during the function. When looked into the depth, it is found that the responsibilities are divided as per castes and accessibility.
This year the function of the Yogi was organized in December and the feast was arranged on 30.12.2022. During the feast, some people taking meal asked for Dal to be served. Satya Priyabrata Mallik is a 20 year old young man studying in a nearby college. He belongs to Scheduled Caste (SC) ategory. Satya was present near the person who was asking for Dal. Satya rushed, carried the serving bucket with dal and proceeded towards that person. At that point, one upper caste person shouted at him, “How dare you touch the food stuff being a Pana (Caste of the victim)?” The dominant caste person followed up with more abuses and slapped him. Some more upper caste persons joined and roughed up the victim. One threatened to murder him. The dalit elders rescued Satya Priyabrata
from more atrocities.
In the next evening, Satya was summoned to the school campus. There 60/70 persons had gathered. Some teachers including the Head Master of the school, the president of the organizing committee were present. There, it is alleged that the victim was abused and forced to spit on the ground and rub his nose; he was terrorised, humiliated and subjugated and left to go back home with threatening, never to dare such steps in future.
Tapan Kumar Gochayat lives with his family in Dhumat village under Nikirei police station of Kedrapada block under Kendrapara district. He is a daily labourer and his son Manoj is an auto driver. His son Manoj takes few children in his auto to the Saraswti Shishu mandir located at Indipur. On his way to school every day, he meets a woman named Kuni Parida (Age-35, W/O- Babu Parida) and a love affair eveloped between them over the period of time. Overwhelmed by this incident, Manoj's father and mother got him married on 07.07.2022. Here it is revealed that Kuni Parida had physical and intimate relations with men other than Manoj. When Manoj got married, Kuni could not have any relationship with Manoj, As a result, Kuni and Kuni's other associates hatched a conspiracy. On 13.10.2022, Manoj went away from home on a motorcycle and since he did not return, the family searched for him for two days and then reported him missing in Nikrei police station on 15.10.2022. On 22.10.2022 and 28.10.2022, Tapan and others met Superintendent of Police, Kendrapara and informed about this incident.
After that, on 02.11.2022, Manoj’s shirt and skull were found lying in the Mahakalpada balighat (sand quarry). This was reported to Nikirei police station; he said that the place was not in area of Nikirei PS and asked him to report it to Bari-Ramchandrapur police station. It was informed in Bari police station and in the presence of police and magistrate; the skeleton, shirt and other items were sealed and sent for post-mortem. After that Kuni Parida, her husband and another accomplice were arrested and forwarded to ail custody. Police investigation is on.