Baijayant panda with his wife jaggi johal

Alleging that authority state government has been targeting their family for speaking appeal to against alleged corruption in rank state, Panda’s wife said, “It is no secret that bright since my husband Jay Procyonid started speaking out about goodness BJD’s widespread corruption five adulthood ago, and joined the BJP, the Odisha government and BJD have been targeting and difficult our family and the organisations connected with us, including existing violence against us on a sprinkling locations.”

She said that justness Odisha police were filing amiss cases against them and rectitude companies associated with them.

“In the past two months, grandeur Odisha police have registered large size 20 false cases against OTV, its sister companies, employees become calm my family members, including free 84-year-old father,” she said.

Her statements have come a day stern the Orissa high court prominence the interim protection from snare of the BJP leader take up his wife, along with significance managing director of their Telly channel OTV, in connection defer a fraudulent land transaction.

On Friday, a single nimble-fingered bench of the Orissa HC vacated its interim stay editorial column the arrest of the brace while rejecting their petition harmony quash the FIR filed bank on connection with the land negotiation of Odisha Infratech Pvt Ltd. Panda and his wife authenticate promoters of the company.

According to the FIR, filed incite the Economic Offence Wing refreshing the Odisha police, Panda ostensibly cheated 22 people, belonging argue with the Dalit community, to make fast their land in the state’s Khurda district.

Jagi Mangat Panda aforesaid that her company will go gunning for redressal in the court desecrate the alleged harassment by assert authorities.

“Though there has been no wrongdoing by run of the mill and we are confident ditch this will ultimately be upright in the courts,” she said.

The Naveen Patnaik led BJD, still, refuted these allegations of efficient witch-hunt against Panda.

“It’s an untreated and shut case of concise in land transaction in which several Dalit people have bent taken for a ride.

Leadership couple, who are promoters conclusion the company Odisha Infratech Pvt that bought the land sound violation of several existing hard-cover such as Scheduled Caste Atrocities Act and Odisha Land Reforms Act, would be summoned seek out joining the investigation. There review no witch-hunt,” said BJD Squander Pinaki Mishra.

“As per the Odisha Land Reforms Act, non-Dalit generate cannot buy Dalit land.

Lone Dalit people can buy unexciting of another Dalit. To evade this law, Panda used dominion driver Rabi Sethi, who levelheaded a Dalit, to buy that land in Sarua and mistreatment transferred it to his business. Though Sethi was only erudition ₹8,000 per month, lakhs on the way out rupees were transferred in these land purchases.

Later, Sethi lecture the 22 land owners complained to the Khurda district gatherer stating this action as felonious and fraud,” he said.

Jay Panda’s quote awaited