Former Odisha DGP no more

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Last Updated : Jan 31 2015 | 10:20 PM IST
Former Odisha director general
of police (DGP) Shyama Sundar Padhi passed away at his home here here today, family sources said.
Padhi (86) is survived by a son and two daughters. His wife and the first woman judge of Orissa High Court Justice Amiya Kumari Padhi had predeceased him in April 2012.
Padhi was was ailing for past several days and hospitalised for a week earlier this month. Recovering from old age diseases, he was discharged from the hospital about six days ago. But his condition deteriorated in the afternoon and breathed his last in the evening at his house in Bhasa Kosh Lane, the sources said adding the cremation would take place at Satichoura crematorium here.
Padhi served as DGP of the State police for three terms between 1979 and 1987.
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First Published: Jan 31 2015 | 10:20 PM IST

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