In a judgment delivered on 29 April 2002 the District and
Sessions Judge of Khurda, Orissa, sentenced two of the three accused persons in the case to life imprisonment
and a fine of Rs.5,000 each.
Which is why he has no qualms in ordering an inquiry at the drop of a hat-
be it into the hooch tragedy in Khurda, the scam involving the purchase of polythene sheets for cyclone relief
or the purchase of groundnut seeds by the Agriculture Department.