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Woman deposes before OHRC

Staff Reporter

BHUBANESWAR: The Orissa Human Rights Commission on Tuesday recorded statement of Mali Paleka, wife of Sirimajhi Paleka, who died allegedly in the police encounter at Birubai village in Rayagada district last year.

While deposing before the OHRC, Ms Paleka said when her husband had gone out of their house in the night to attend the call of nature, the police and personnel of Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) fired indiscriminately.

Subsequently, she had not found his husband even as other villagers searched near her house, Ms. Paleka said adding that the next evening, the police had thrown the body of her husband at a little distance away from her house. "I was not even called to be present during the postmortem."

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