Category: Crime

Bhubaneswar: Odisha Vigilance sleuths On Tuesday arrested Santanu Kumar Mallik, Block Education Officer (BEO) of Hindol in Odisha’s Dhenkanal district while demanding and accepting Rs 10,000 bribe from a teacher for release of his arrear salary pending on official ground.   According to Odisha Vigilance, the entire bribe money of Rs 10,000 has been recovered and seized from the possession of the accused.   Following a complaint lodged by the teacher, the Vigilance officials set up a trap to nab the BEO. Currently, simultaneous searches are underway at three locations…

Achievers News: A Sub Inspector (SI) of Police posted at the Khandagiri police station here under Bhubaneswar Urban Police District and a private person have been arrested after being caught by officials of the Odisha Vigilance for demanding and accepting a bribe of Rs 50,000 from a person (complainant). According to an official press release issued by the Vigilance, Susanta Kumar Swain, SI of Police Khandagiri Police Station and a private person Chiranjiv Bala were caught red-handed by the officials of the anti-corruption agency while demanding and accepting a bribe…

Bhubaneswar: Odisha witnessed about a 14.65 per cent rise in crime in 2022. According to a white paper released by the state Home Department on Monday, 1,78,190 criminal cases were registered in Odisha in 2022, including 1,379 murders and 3,184 rape cases. Of the 1,78,190 criminal cases, police have filed chargesheets in 1,18,547 cases. The white paper further revealed that 2,998 cases of robbery, 14,893 cases of theft, 626 cases of dacoity, 2,248 cases of riot, 5,352 cases of cheating, 11,773 cases of motor vehicle accidents and another 1,30,380 miscellaneous…

Balasore: Balasore police have arrested Chandan Rana, the prime accused in the February 20 Sahadevkhunta acid attack case. A total of eight persons have been arrested so far in connection with this case. “Our team today succeeded in apprehending the prime accused in the 20th February acid attack case which took place under Sahadevkhunta police limits,” informed Balasore SP Sagarika Nath today. Addressing a presser here Nath said that a total of five teams were formed to apprehend the prime accused which included a cyber team, a local team and…

Balasore: Banita Rana, a resident of Bhimpur village in Odisha’s Balasore district, lost her battle for survival on Sunday evening as she succumbed to her burn injuries sustained when her husband Chandan Kumar Rana threw acid on her on February 20. Banita Rana was the second wife of Chandan Rana – a small-time vendor of artificial jewellery. According to reports, Chandan and Banita of Sahadebakhunta area in Balasore district had a love marriage a little over a month ago, but, a few days later, Banita came to know that Chandan…

Jharsuguda: Even before the murder of Odisha Health Minister Naba Kisore Das, who was shot by an on-duty police ASI Gopal Das here on January 29, could be erased from the minds of the people, another police officer has put the Odisha Police in discomfort. The police officer concerned is Kolabira police station constable Saroj Das, who, in an inebriated state, allegedly threatened to kill former Brajarajnagar MLA Anup Sai on Monday. While Anup Sai was convicted in a double murder case and is currently out on bail, police have…

Bhubaneswar: Soumyajeet Mohapatra, the reported boyfriend of software engineer Sweta Utkal Kumari who was found dead in her apartment in the Infocity area of Bhubaneswar on August 19, 2022, was sent to Jharpada Jail here on charges of abetting suicide. Chandrasekhar Police had arrested Soumyajeet from his native house in Bansidhar Nagar in Odisha’s Sambalpur district in the wee hours of Thursday and brought him to Bhubaneswar yesterday. Following interrogation, he was produced in a court and subsequently sent to judicial custody after his bail plea was rejected. Police said…

Dhenkanal: The Kamakshyanagar SDJM court on Wednesday sentenced Sanjay Kumar Satapathy, a former banking assistant, to two years of rigorous imprisonment for misappropriating Rs 1.15 crore from United Central Cooperative Bank in Odisha’s Angul. The court also slapped a fine of Rs 13,000 on Satapathy. Satpathy along with three other staff members of the United Central Cooperative Bank had misappropriated Rs.1,15,16,300 in 2015-16 fiscal by crediting the amount to 65 different accounts from different heads of general ledger account through 187 transactions and subsequently withdrew the entire amount using the…