The BJP has demanded that Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik apologise for a state minister’s alleged comment that the “police get commission” from financial benefits extended to victims of SC and ST atrocity cases. The saffron party also stated that Behera, the minister of state for home, should be sacked from the post for his statement. The minister, however, denied having made such a remark. BJP’s Scheduled Caste Morcha president and former MP Bibhu Prasad Tarai alleged that Behera, while addressing a function on Monday, had stated that “both police and lawyers get commissions from victims who receive benefits under a compensation scheme for the SC and ST atrocity cases.
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