BJP leader Pradeep Panigrahi exonerated of all charges, marks the end of his ordeal
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BJP leader Pradeep Panigrahi exonerated of all charges, marks the end of his ordeal

Deccan Chronicle  

Bhubaneswar: After a long and tumultuous battle, Pradeep Panigrahi, an ex-close confidant of former Odisha chief minister Naveen Patnaik, now turned political opponent, can finally breathe a sigh of relief. Panigrahi’s legal troubles began around 2019-20 after he fell out of favour with Patnaik, who placed greater trust in Pandian, a bureaucrat-turned-politician, leading to Panigrahi's sidelining within the Biju Janata Dal. “The Brahmapur Judicial Magistrate First Class Rural Court delivered its verdict on Wednesday, clearing Panigrahi of three cases involving false promises of job offers at Tata Motors,” Pattanayak confirmed. This ruling came just a day after Panigrahi, along with Abhay Kant Pathak and his son Akash Pathak, was acquitted in two separate fraud cases.

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Party hoppers in a spot of bother over BJP-BJD alliance

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The Hindu  

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The Hindu  

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