Kantabanji: Newly elected MLA Laxman Bag today met the family of deceased teacher Mamita Meher at her paternal house in Jharani village under Turekela block of Bolangir district. He assured the bereaved family to propose the Odisha Government for a CBI probe of the much-debated murder case.

“I will submit a proposal to the State government for a CBI probe of the sensitive case and the accused persons will be brought to justice,” the Kantabanji BJP legislator asserted.

During electioneering in recently concluded simultaneous elections, Bag had promised that he would put forward the matter if gets elected in the polls.

“There is no advancement in the probe after the suspicious death of accused Gobinda Sahu in jail,” Mamita’s father Suchindra Meher alleged.

Worth mentioning, the MLA was accompanied by Bolangir district BJP unit president Shivaji Mohanty and other local leaders.