Nayagarh: The main accused in the Pari murder case in Nayagarh district was produced before the Juvenile Justice Board here Wednesday. However, he refused to undergo mapping test. The SIT, which is probing the Pari rape and murder case, had filed a petition at the board seeking permission for conducting the test on the accused.
SIT had earlier filed a petition at the same board seeking its permission for conducting ‘narco-analysis test’. Then also the accused did not give his consent for the test.
Pari a five-year-old girl of Jadupur village under Sadar police limits in Nayagarh district went missing June 14. Her body packed in a sack was recovered from near a pond June 23. The pond is only 50 metres away from the place where she was last seen.
The case attracted state-wide attention November 24 when the parents of the deceased girl attempted immolation in front of the Odisha Legislative Assembly last year. The Assembly session was underway then.
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