Crime

Nagpur: At least 12 Maoists were killed on Wednesday in an encounter with police and commandos in Maharashtra’s Gadchiroli district, near Chhattisgarh border. According to Gadchiroli SP Nilotpal, there was a heavy exchange of fire…
Read More...

Balasore: Simulia police have detained a person on charges of strangulating his mother to death under the influence of alcohol at Talapada village in Soro block in Odisha’s Balasore district on Tuesday night. He has been identified as Arun…
Read More...

Phulbani: A court in Odisha’s Kandhamal district sentenced a man to rigorous imprisonment for 20 years for raping a minor girl several times since 2018. The court of the Additional District Judge (POCSO) in Phulbani convicted Banamali…
Read More...

Bhubaneswar: The Commissionerate Police nabbed two drug traffickers following a chase on NH 16 with more than one quintal cannabis. The traffickers were smuggling a consignment of cannabis from Odisha’s Phulbani to Jharkhand, the police…
Read More...

Bhubaneswar: The Cyber Crime Unit of CID, Crime Branch, Odisha has arrested three persons including two Nigerians from New Delhi for allegedly duping a Bhubaneswar man of more than Rs 2.5 crore through investment fraud. The arrested…
Read More...

Bhubaneswar: The Economic Offences Wing (EOW), Odisha, on Saturday arrested proprietor of a firm, who was detained by Bureau of immigration) at Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose International Airport, Kolkata, on returning from Dubai on Friday,…
Read More...

Jeypore: Miscreants have allegedly kidnapped a rice mill owner, identified as A Ramesh Patra, and demanded Rs 70 lakh ransom for his release in Odisha’s Koraput district. According to sources, the abductors intercepted the car in which…
Read More...

Cuttack: The case of torture of house caretaker by Odia actress Riya Dey and her husband has been shifted to Bidanasi police station in Cuttack. The victim had filed the complaint against Riya and her husband Sunil at Chandrasekharpur…
Read More...

Bhadrak: Police busted a fake tobacco manufacturing unit and arrested two persons in this connection in Odisha’s Bhadrak district on Thursday. According to police sources, the illegal unit, located at Helasahi in the two under Puruna…
Read More...

Bhubaneswar: Recording an alarming rise in cyber-crime, Odisha reported 2,394 cases of such frauds in the last six months. As many as 2,394 cyber fraud cases have been reported in several police stations between January and June, this…
Read More...