Road accident snuffs out lives of six in Odisha
The poor visibility due to dense fog might be one of the causes of the road mishap. Besides, the driver of the van might have possibly dozed off leading to the mishap.
Terming the murder case as the ‘rarest of rare’ crimes, the Additional District Judge Court-2 held Sanjit Dash guilty and pronounced the death sentence on the basis of circumstantial, material, and medico-legal evidence.
Statesman News Service | BHUBANESWAR | August 1, 2024 10:07 pm
Terming the murder case as the ‘rarest of rare’ crimes, the Additional District Judge Court-2 held Sanjit Dash guilty and pronounced the death sentence on the basis of circumstantial, material, and medico-legal evidence.
The court also relied on the deposition of 15 witnesses, including the statement of the convict’s minor daughter, who was the witness to her mother being stabbed to death.
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The convict, a drug addict, frequently abused his wife, Saraswati Dash, mentally and physically. The domestic violence spree took a fateful and tragic turn on midnight of 22 June 2022, when, in a fit of rage, Dash stabbed Saraswati 33 times with a kitchen knife.
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The poor visibility due to dense fog might be one of the causes of the road mishap. Besides, the driver of the van might have possibly dozed off leading to the mishap.
Two tribal women died and seven others fell sick after allegedly consuming mango kernel gruel in far-flung Mandipanka village under Daringbadi block of Odisha’s Kandhamal district.
The Odisha government on Friday enforced a seven-month-long prohibition on sea fishing activity from 1 November within 20 km of the coast at the river mouths of Dhamara, Devi and Rusikulya as part of annual Olive Ridley turtle conservation programme.
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