Mishra rape case: Accused identified

CUTTACK, Jan 15: Anjana Mishra, the victim of a recent gang rape in Orissa, today identified one of the three accused in a test identification TI parade.

The TI parade was conducted in presence of a judicial magistrate inside the Choudwar jail, about 15 km from here, where accused Pradeep Sahu alias Padia is kept on a 15-day judicial remand after his bail plea was rejected on Tuesday.

According to jail sources, the accused was also identified by the taxi driver Nilakantha Rout, in whose vehicle the crime was reportedly committed on Saturday night.

News editor of a private television channel Sutanu Guru, another key witness in the case who accompanied Mishra from Bhubaneswar, however, failed to identify the accused. the sources said.