Senior IPS officer Debasis Panigrahi (IPS:1991:OR), Director of the Odisha Vigilance Directorate, breathed his last around 10.15 pm on Friday while undergoing treatment for COVID complications at a super speciality hospital in Kolkata.
Panigrahi was admitted to Ashwini COVID Hospital in Cuttack on May 29 after being diagnosed with the virus. He was shifted to the ICU and then kept on a ventilator after his condition deteriorated on June 7 despite him being fully vaccinated in April. On June 8, he was airlifted to Kolkata.
