New Delhi: National Human Rights Commission seeks report from Centre, Odisha Govt on Kandhamal deaths. The commission has given two weeks’ time to submit the report. This was informed by the NHRC secretary general SN Mohanty.

It should be noted that chairman of the National Commission for Scheduled Castes (NCSC) PL Punia and National Commission for Scheduled Tribes (NCST) chairman also visited Gumudumaha village and spoke to the family members and relatives of the victims, reported Orissadiary.

It should be noted that a combing party of Special Operation Group (SOG) conducted a hound on Maoists in the Malapanga forest of Kandhamal district on last Friday night and a bloody gun battle erupted between the two sides.

But if to believe state police, a auto carrying some MNREGA beneficiaries got trapped in the crossfire and five innocents died of bullet injury on the spot.