Crime

Keonjhar: In a daylight robbery, two panchayat officials in Odisha’s Keonjhar district were allegedly held at gunpoint and robbed of Rs 8.18 lakh on Monday. The victims were identified as Panchayat Executive Officer (PEO) Tushar Soren…
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Bhubaneswar: In a five-day special drive across Odisha, police arrested 1,771 people including habitual offenders and seized more than 3,000 kg of ganja, 20 unlicensed firearms, and various other illegal items. Speaking to the media,…
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Nayagarh: The Odisha Vigilance sleuths on Sunday apprehended a junior engineer (JE) of Bhapur Rural Works Section in Nayagarh district and his associate while allegedly accepting a bribe of Rs 1.36 lakh. JE Keshab Subudhi had demanded…
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Rayagada: In a major breakthrough, Odisha Police arrested three key accused from Bihar’s Aurangabad in connection with the abduction and murder of a youth in Rayagada district. The arrested persons have been identified as Umesh Hial,…
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Kendrapada: In a shocking case of familial violence, a homeopathic doctor was allegedly beaten to death by his elder brother and other relatives over a long-standing property dispute at Baradang village under Mahakalapada police limits in…
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Bhubaneswar: The Odisha Crime Branch on Thursday arrested the prime accused in the Balianta mob lynching case that led to the death of Government Railway Police (GRP) constable Soumya Ranjan Swain earlier this month. The arrested has…
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Keonjhar: The special enforcement team of Keonjhar Forest Division has arrested four persons on charges of illegally possessing and attempting to sell elephant tusks and other wildlife body parts. The accused have been identified as…
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Baripada: Two persons were allegedly hacked to death by a drunk man at a village in Tiring area of Mayurbhanj district on Wednesday morning. The incident took place at Kulughutu village under the jurisdiction of Tiring police station.…
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Sambalpur: A joint team of police and Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) arrested a man for his alleged involvement in smuggling drugs and links to inter-state drug networks from Sambalpur district on Wednesday. Sources said the accused,…
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Bhubaneswar: A special POCSO court in Cuttack district on Wednesday sentenced a man to 20 years of imprisonment for raping a minor girl in December last year. The court also slapped a penalty of Rs 20,000 on convict Ashok Behera. As per…
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