By SANTOSH MOHANTY
Police are yet to find out the clue for the alleged rape and murder of an 11-year-old girl who belonged to Shyamsundarpur village under Sadar police station limits in Angul district. The gruesome incident occurred on September 8, 2025. The girl's body was recovered by the police from a rivulet near the village.
There was no information on the postmortem report and viscera and the police are tightlipped on the matter. The residents of Shyamsundarpur and nearby villages had staged road blockades and have met Angul SP Rahul Jain demanding early action, but to no avail. In the meanwhile, media reports have claimed that the crime rate in Angul district has maintained an upward trend in the past few months.
Angul SP Rahul Jain has taken the onus of investigation on his own to nab the criminals who are involved in the the gruesome murder of the the 11-year old girl belonging to Shyamsundarpur. Jain said the culprit will be brought to book soon, but over one month has elapsed and the police are yet to find out the person who was responsible for the cold blooded murder of the innocent girl. According to the statistics, Home Department of Odisha has revealed that 2,826 rapes and 1,362 murders had occurred in 2023. In 2024, the raped cases rose to 3,054 and there were 1,258 murders.
The Pari case in Nayagarh had drawn the attention of the country in 2020. Although the case had baffled the police, after a thorough investigation a special court convicted and sentenced the perpetrator in 2024.
Angul is the highly industrialized and crime ridden district in the state. The industrial town has recently seen a spate of outsiders hailing from Bihar, Chhattisgarh, West Bengal and Andhra Pradesh who are selling tea and doing petty business. They have chosen Angul as their place of work for the reason that this district has a number of industries and offers opportunities for whatever business they take up. But, there are instances in which some outsiders from these above mentioned states have been rounded up by the police for involvement in crimes in the district. Recently, there has been a spurt of bike theft in most parts of Angul district and in most cases the culprits are yet to be nabbed.
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