BHUBANESWAR, JANUARY 27: In A significant statement, CBI investigating officer Jogendra Nayak today told a trial judge in the Graham Staines murder case that none of the 18 accused named in the FIR in the killing of the missionary and his two minor sons belonged to the Bajrang Dal.
This is surprising as the accused named in the FIR had been earlier described as members of the Bajrang Dal. Even several prosecution witnesses had deposed before the trial judge that the accused were shouting slogans like ‘‘Bajrang Dal zindabad’’ before setting Staines and his sons on fire. Nayak disclosed this while deposing before Khurda district and sessions judge Mahendra Nath Pattnaik. He added that he did not investigate the timing of the FIR, while denying the allegation that the actual FIR was suppressed by the police.
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