Crime News Updates

The police today claimed to have cracked the case involving the discovery of a headless male body on the Rushikulya river bed near Puspa Nagar here under Sorada police limits in Ganjam district on January 22 this year.

The Orissa High Court today granted bail to Akash Pathak, son of suspended IFS officer Abhay Kant Pathak in connection with a fraud allegedly committed by him on pretext of providing employment in Tata Motors

Odisha DGP, Abhay said the STF seized the brown sugar consignment on the basis of cultivated intelligence.

The Special Task Force (STF) of the Odisha Crime Branch on Thursday arrested the prime accused in connection with spurious drugs trade in the State

Bhubaneswar: A woman killed her roommate by slitting her throat following a quarrel in their house in Lane-5 of Gouri Nagar in Bhubaneswar early morning today. The deceased has been identified as Alakananda Das. The incident has sent shockwaves in the capital city as during an interrogation by Lingaraj police, the accused Anisha Mitra confessed […]

Keonjhar: Police on Wednesday arrested a man on charges of abducting and killing a 7-year-old boy on January 12 after the kid’s mother turned down his love proposal in Gosaninuagaon area of Ganjan district. According to sources, the minor boy went missing after going on a scooter with his distant relative identified as Debasish Panda […]

Rourkela: A female student of a private engineering college in Rourkela was abducted and gang raped for two days by six youths at Lotapahar area in Jharkhand. As per the complaint report, the girl, a resident of Jharsuguda was going to her home during vacation on December 31 from Rourkela. While she was waiting at […]

Berhampur: An engineering student was arrested on Saturday for fraudulently transferring money from the bank accounts of a woman in Berhampur. The accused has been identified as Sunil Tripathy, a resident of Arabinda Nagar under Baidyanathpur police limits here. According to reports, Tripathy is studying at an engineering college in Cuttack. The victim on December […]

Baripada: In yet another bank robbery, the Odisha Gramya Bank’s Pratappur branch under Badasahi police limits in Mayurbhanj district was looted by three miscreants late last night. However, the amount of cash looted from the bank has not been ascertained yet. As per the security guard of the panchayat office, the incident took place at […]

Khurda: Throwing an open challenge at the cops, unidentified miscreants Wednesday night looted at least six shops near Taratua Chhak in Sharadhapur area of Khurda district, one of which was located some ten meters away from the Khurda SDPO office. The matter came to fore after locals spotted the shutter of the shops open this […]

Balasore: A minor girl, who had reportedly gone missing some eight days ago, was shot dead at Arada bazaar area under Sahadevkhunta police limits in Balasore district on Saturday. It is suspected that the 14-year-old girl, a student of Class IX was killed over love affair. According to reports, girl had eloped with a youth, […]

Kendrapara: Police on Friday arrested a youth for allegedly hacking his mother to death with a sharp weapon over family dispute at Dumuka village under Derabish tehsil of the district. The deceased woman has been identified as Tulasi. According to reports, Tulasi’s daughter had left her husband’s house and had been staying at her maternal […]

Khurda: Continuing its crackdown on illegal trade of drugs, Excise officials arrested two persons and seized 295 grams of brown sugar from their possession in the wee hours today. The arrested persons have been identified as Rabindra Pradhan of Mathasahi and Krushna Chandra Palei of Radhamohanpur area under Khurda Town police limits. Acting on a […]

Balasore: The Sahadevkhunta police on Thursday busted a gang of dacoits and arrested five of its members from Chudakuta Sahi in the district. Acting on a tip-off, special teams of police conducted simultaneous raids at several places in Chudakuta Sahi late on Thursday night and arrested the five dacoits while they were hatching plans to […]

Bhadrak: In an audacious robbery in Bhadrak, barely a few metres from the office of Superintendent of Police (SP), a group of miscreants vandalised an ATM kiosk and looted a shop near early Thursday morning. While the owner of the concerned shop claimed that a cash of Rs 30,000 has been looted from his shop, […]