Bhubaneswar, Nov. 28 -- Bhubaneswar: A day after creating a storm by terming the kidnapping and murder of five-year-old Nayagarh girl 'Pari' 'a minor incident', BJD vice-president and Khandapada MLA Soumya Ranjan Patnaik on Saturday took a U-turn, claiming that his version had been distorted by some people for gaining political mileage.

"Some people with a bleak political future are trying to politicise my statement by distorting it. I don't have any issue with them. I wrote an article over the matter and they should go through and analyse it properly. I had mentioned in my piece that the entire episode had begun from a missing case which later snowballed into a major controversy," he said.

Patnaik further added "if the police had act t...