: Dismissed police inspector Amulya Champatiray, who was singularly picked up as the scapegoat for the 2011-Pipili gang rape and murder case, on Saturday pointed fingers at the then Puri SP A.N. Sinha, IPS, for being equally responsible in delaying the registration of a police case in the matter.
During cross examination before the Judicial Commission of Enquiry on the day, Champatiray said Sinha had not asked him to register the FIR even as the November 30, 2011 incident was brought to the notice of the SP on December 4, 2011.
“It was only on the direction of the then SDPO on December 9 that the case was registered,” Champatiray told the Commission during cross examination by advocate Nishikant Mishra, the counsel for victim’s father Babuli Behera.
Champatiray, who was dismissed from service in 2012, said that he had informed the then SP on December 4 itself about the written complaint filed by the victim’s father.
