Bidya Bharati Panda, accused in the alleged murder of her husband Soumya Ranjan Mohapatra, has been remanded to judicial custody until November 13 by a Berhampur court. She surrendered after the Orissa High Court denied her interim protection from arrest. All three accused in the case are now in judicial custody.
Resentment is also brewing over the fact that instead of employing locals, peripheral development work has been entrusted to outsiders.
Nihar Das Pattnaik, the company's manager, CSR, and three others -- Arun Mohapatra, Debasish Swain and Prasant Rout - had gone to Patana village to conduct a survey of households for inclusion in the CSR activities.
Patkar, talking to reporters, said that she wanted to meet the family members of Swain, but a section of locals claimed that the team of activists was there to seek feedback from them about the JSW project.
Ridiculing Odisha government's claim that land acquisition for the proposed Posco project near Paradip was complete, CPI-backed Posco Pratirodh Sangram Samiti (PPSS) said demolition of betel vines did not mean taking over possession of farmers' land.
