BHUBANESWAR: The state government on Thursday asked Rourkela SP Diptesh Patnaik to proceed on leave following the raging controversy over a police inspector allegedly slapping a judicial officer in the Steel City on April 2 night, according to the chief minister's office. Official sources said the government has instructed Sundergarh SP Deepak Kumar to hold additional charge of Rourkela.
Inspector of Uditnagar police station, Rourkela, Sadananda Pujari allegedly slapped Patnaik, leading to the showdown. The case was closed on grounds of insufficient evidence, police sources said.
The government action came in the face of a lawyers-versus-police tussle being witnessed in the state. While the lawyers in different parts of the state have been ceasing work since Monday demanding action against the errant cop and Patnaik's transfer, various police bodies, the Orissa Police Association and the Orissa Police Havildar, Constables and Sepoys Confederation, have threatened to go on strike.
With the tussle apparently turning bitter, policemen, preferring anonymity, have begun circulating information about a criminal case recorded five years ago against judicial magistrate (first class), Rourkela, Arun Patnaik, when he was a student.
Documents circulated by police say Patnaik was one of the five accused in case number 138, dated May 3, 2006, of Saheed Nagar police station, Bhubaneswar.
The quintet was then students of Utkal University Law College and charged under various sections of the IPC. The complaint, Abhinash Barik, also a UULC student, had said the quintet had demanded money, assaulted him and threatened to kill him.
Inspector of Uditnagar police station, Rourkela, Sadananda Pujari allegedly slapped Patnaik, leading to the showdown. The case was closed on grounds of insufficient evidence, police sources said.
The government action came in the face of a lawyers-versus-police tussle being witnessed in the state. While the lawyers in different parts of the state have been ceasing work since Monday demanding action against the errant cop and Patnaik's transfer, various police bodies, the Orissa Police Association and the Orissa Police Havildar, Constables and Sepoys Confederation, have threatened to go on strike.
With the tussle apparently turning bitter, policemen, preferring anonymity, have begun circulating information about a criminal case recorded five years ago against judicial magistrate (first class), Rourkela, Arun Patnaik, when he was a student.
Documents circulated by police say Patnaik was one of the five accused in case number 138, dated May 3, 2006, of Saheed Nagar police station, Bhubaneswar.
The quintet was then students of Utkal University Law College and charged under various sections of the IPC. The complaint, Abhinash Barik, also a UULC student, had said the quintet had demanded money, assaulted him and threatened to kill him.
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