Day: February 9, 2023

Balasore: In a major achievement, the Jaleswar anti-drug department has seized opium worth around Rs 1 crore from the National Highway No. 60 near the Amardarod Bypass. According to sources, personnel of the Narcotics department and the Jaleshwar anti-drug department and an anti-drug satellite unit jointly seized 990 grams of opium and arrested a businessman in this connection. According to Bhagwan Mahanandia, IOC, Basta Excise PS, the seized opium is said to be of over Rs 90 lakh in the market. The Narcotics department has registered a case and initiated…

  Jharsuguda: Dismissed ASI of Odisha Police, Gopal Krishna Das, who has hogged the headlines over the last 11 days after killing Health Minister Naba Kisore Das in broad daylight, was on Wednesday flown to Gujarat for narco analysis and polygraph tests. Earlier in the day, the Crime Branch, which is investigating Naba Das’ murder had moved the local JMFC court seeking permission for the test, only after the prime accused had given his consent for narco analysis. After securing the court’s permission Gopal was ferried to Jharsuguda airport amid…

Bhubaneswar: Odisha Vigilance officials today arrested one Sanjay Kumar Padhi, Revenue Supervisor of Suliapada tahasil in Mayurbhanj while he was allegedly demanding and accepting a bribe of Rs 2,500 from a blind person (complainant) to facilitate the sanction of incentive amount in his favour towards marriage between a disabled and a normal person. As per the scheme of the SS&EPD Department of the State Government incentive is awarded for marriage between person with bench mark disability and other person. The blind person got himself married with a normal person (without…