Odisha Congress Forms Panel To Probe Incidents Related To Crimes Against Women

A fact-finding committee has been established by the Odisha Pradesh Congress Committee (OPCC) to look into reports of atrocities against women that have occurred in the state after the BJP took office. The newly appointed OPCC President Bhakta Charan Das announced the committee’s creation on Thursday, stating that it will begin a ground-level investigation into the specific instances of crimes against women.

“In the past eight months of the current BJP government’s rule in Odisha, more than 1,600 cases related to crimes against women have been reported, averaging nearly seven cases per day. We have constituted a fact-finding committee to assess the ground reality, the committee members will talk to all the stakeholders related to the women atrocity cases registered during the last eight months and prepare its report. We will take up the matter seriously before the government and the public,” noted Das.

Additionally, he stated that the party will do all in its power to force the state administration to take the crimes committed against women seriously. Speaking on the KIIT scandal, the president of the OPCC called for strict punishment for anybody found culpable in relation to the Nepali girl’s suicide and the ensuing attacks on other Nepali students by the administration of the private university in Bhubaneswar. The state’s declining law and order situation under the BJP rule has been brought up by the opposition parties Congress and the BJD.

During the first phase of the current Odisha Assembly session a few days ago, lawmakers from both opposition parties also brought up the state’s deteriorating law and order situation. Up to 30,943 incidences of violence against women have been reported in Odisha in 2024, according to figures recently presented to the Odisha Assembly by Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi.