A woman, who was allegedly gangraped in Odisha last year, Thursday died in a government hospital in Cuttack, around 26 km from here, after undergoing treatment for more than six months, an official said.<\/p>\n
The woman died of heart stroke, septicemia, a severe infection and other complications<\/strong><\/span>, Bhubanananda Moharana, superintendent of Sriram Chandra Bhanja Medical College and Hospital, where she was undergoing treatment, told reporters.<\/p>\n The woman was allegedly gangraped Nov 28 by some people near her village, Arjunagoda, 10 km from Bhubaneswar.<\/p>\n The incident came to light when the woman was initially denied proper treatment at different hospitals. According to the family, the woman was gangraped by a group of men who had earlier assaulted her in 2008 and against whom she had filed a molestation case.<\/p>\n The gangrape is still being investigated, six months after the incident, by the crime branch and a one-man judicial commission headed by a retired judge of the Orissa High Court. A woman, who was allegedly gangraped in Odisha last year, Thursday died in a government hospital in Cuttack, around 26 km from here, after undergoing treatment for more than six months, an official said. The woman died of heart stroke, septicemia, a severe infection and other complications, Bhubanananda Moharana, superintendent of Sriram Chandra Bhanja Medical […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[9158,9155,9154,9157,9156],"class_list":["post-21037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-top-law-news","tag-odisha-gangrape-victim","tag-odisha-pipili-gangrape-case","tag-pipili-gangrape-case","tag-pipili-gangrape-victim","tag-pipili-gangrape-victim-dies-in-hospital"],"yoast_head":"\n
\nThe case created a political storm, prompting Agriculture Minister Pradeep Maharathy to resign Jan 19 on moral grounds after the opposition parties and the woman’s family alleged that he was protecting her attackers.<\/p>\n
\nThe crime branch has so far arrested four people in the case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"