BJP MLA Manoj Pradhn acquitted
BHUBANESWAR:(visakeo)- In a significant development, BJP MLA Manoj Pradhan, booked under several charges for his alleged role in last year's communal violence in Orissa’s Kandhamal district, about 260 kilometers away from here, was on Friday acquitted in a case of arson by a local court.
Pradhan, MLA from G Udayagiri Assembly segment of this southern district, who is in jail facing about 14 criminal cases, was acquitted in one because of lack of proper evidence in an incident of arson at Pisamaha village under Raikia police station area.
A large number of houses at Pisamaha village were set ablaze on August 27, 2008 during the riots last year with a person named Gutia Digal lodging a complaint against Pradhan.
The additional sessions judge of Fast Track Court-1, said that evidence against Pradhan was not sufficient to substantiate the charge of house burning.
Pradhan was elected to the state Assembly as a BJP candidate from G Udaygiri segment while he was in jail. He was released for a month to take oath as MLA and attend the budget session. He returned to jail on July 31.
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