By Our Correspondent
BHUBANESWAR: Rabindra Mishra, a Berhampur-based human rights activist, had filed a petition with the NHRC in this regard while NHRC has issued a notice to the Rayagada SP in connection with the death of Russian Lawmaker Pavel Antov at a hotel in the district.
The commission has sought an Action Taken Report within four weeks. “It is requested that an Action Taken Report be sent to the Commission within 4 weeks from the date of receipt of this letter,” the NHRC mentioned in the letter.
Russian MP and business man Pavel Antov was found dead after allegedly falling from the third floor window of the hotel on December 24.
Antov’s death took place two days post his 62-year-old friend Vladimir Videnov’s demise, who was also staying in the same room and died after falling ill. Antov, Videnov, a Russian couple and tourist guide Jitendra Singh had come to visit south Odisha districts. All of them checked into the hotel on December 21.
Pavel Antov, who was a lawmaker in Russia, had recently sent out a message criticising Russian attacks on Ukraine, but had later retracted the statement.
‘We appreciate the investigation efforts by the Indian authorities into the death of two Russian nationals in Odisha.Meanwhile it would be useful for some Hercule Poirot lovers to learn that cremation in Russia is as customary as burial.Idleness is the root of all evil,’ Russian Ambassador to India, Denis Alipov tweeted @AmbRus_India.
‘The nearest relatives of the deceased have clearly expressed their will to have bodies of Vladimir Bydanov and Pavel Antov cremated and their remains (ashes) brought to Russia,’ the Consulate General of Russia in Kolkata said in a tweet.
