{"id":7327,"date":"2008-12-27T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-27T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2008\/12\/27\/net-closes-in-on-congress-mp-for-orissa-swami-s-murder\/"},"modified":"2008-12-27T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-27T12:00:00","slug":"net-closes-in-on-congress-mp-for-orissa-swami-s-murder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2008\/12\/27\/net-closes-in-on-congress-mp-for-orissa-swami-s-murder\/","title":{"rendered":"Net Closes In On Congress MP For Orissa Swami&#8217;s Murder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"source\"><a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.indianexpress.com\/news\/net-closes-in-on-cong-mp-for-orissa-swamis-murder\/403507\/\">www.indianexpress.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"summary\">BHUBANESWAR, INDIA, December 27, 2008: The BJD-BJP Government in Orissa is closing in on Congress Rajya Sabha member and former civil servant Radhakanta Nayak for his &#8220;alleged role in the conspiracy to kill Lakshmanananda Saraswati.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sources say that Nayak, the most high-profile Christian political leader in the State, may be arrested shortly. The Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) has alleged that the plot to kill Lakshamananda Saraswati was &#8220;hatched in the presence of Nayak.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of Orissa police is said to be preparing a case against Nayak and his supporters. Though CID officials refused to comment whether they considered Nayak as one of the suspects, they said: &#8220;The mastermind has been identified and he is now out of Orissa.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Nayak, when contacted by The Indian Express, said the allegations that he conspired to kill the Swami were &#8220;absolutely absurd and completely false&#8221;. &#8220;I feel very surprised by the charges,&#8221; he said over the phone from New Delhi.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>www.indianexpress.com BHUBANESWAR, INDIA, December 27, 2008: The BJD-BJP Government in Orissa is closing in on Congress Rajya Sabha member and,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7327\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}