Crime

Berhampur: In a chilling incident that has sent shockwaves through the city, a woman tenant allegedly set her landlord on fire following a fallout in their extramarital relationship. The victim, identified as Harihar Sahu, a retired…
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Rourkela: Police on Sunday seized huge quantities of explosives from vehicles near a petrol pump in Odisha’s Rourkela city. According to sources, two vehicles were parked near the filling station in Raghunathpali area of the Steel City…
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Bhubaneswar: The Odisha Vigilance on Friday recovered Rs 2.1 crore during simultaneous searches on properties linked to Chief Engineer of Rural Works Baikuntha Nath Sarangi. While Rs 1 crore was seized from his flat at PDN Exotica in…
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Bhubaneswar: Deputy Director of the Enforcement Directorate’s Odisha branch, Chintan Raghuvanshi, was arrested by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in Bhubaneswar in connection with an alleged Rs 50 lakh bribery deal. As per…
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Bhubaneswar: Odisha Vigilance officials have unearthed huge assets, including two high-value plots, during raids on sites linked to a Superintending Engineer (SE) in Rayagada, Sahadev Kisan, who was caught with Rs 1.5 lakh unaccounted…
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Koraput: In a major breakthrough in anti-Maoist operations, the District Voluntary Force (DVF) arrested a top Maoist leader, Kunjam Hidma alias Mohan, during a combing operation near Petguda village under Boipariguda police limits in…
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Bhubaneswar: The Odisha Crime Branch has cracked an online betting racket with the arrest of two persons, who allegedly duped a Jajpur resident of Rs 1.08 crore over two and a half years. They have been identified as Rohan alias Sk…
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Balangir: The Additional District Judge in Patnagarh of Balangir district today sentenced former college principal Punjilal Meher to life imprisonment and slapped a fine of Rs 50,000 for orchestrating a deadly parcel bomb attack that…
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Ranchi: Top Maoist commander Tulsi Bhuiyan was killed in an encounter with security forces in the Palamu district of Jharkhand on Tuesday. The fierce encounter that began on Monday night in the Hussainabad subdivision of the district…
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Bengaluru: The Railway Protection Force (RPF), in collaboration with the Excise Department, seized 35.25 kg of ganja valued at Rs 29.79 lakh and arrested four persons from Odisha at KSR Bengaluru railway station last week. According to…
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