Crime News Updates

Gajapati: Two days after the bodies of two sisters were recovered from a well outside their house in R. Udayagiri here, police today made startling revelations claiming that it was a case of murder and not suicide. As per latest reports, police have arrested their parents on charges of murdering their daughters. The information was […]

Bhubaneswar: Thwarting yet another attempt of gold smuggling through the Biju Patnaik International Airport here, officers of the Air Intelligence Unit of Customs seized gold worth Rs 21.89 lakh from a passenger who arrived at the Airport in an Air Asia flight from Kuala Lumpur on Wednesday. Acting on a spot intelligence, the officials intercepted […]

Balasore: Continuing its crackdown on the illegal trade of drugs, the Jaleswar police today seized nearly 10 grams of brown sugar worth Rs 1.5 lakh and arrested two youths involved in the racket. Acting on a tip-off, the police conducted a raid near Chalanti Chhak in Jaleswar and nabbed both the accused while they were […]

Boudh: Police today recovered the body of a youth from a field in Keuntipalli village under Manamunda police limits of the district. The deceased has been identified as Minaketan Putel of nearby Gochhapada village, police said. As per sources, the locals of Keuntipalli first saw the body of Putel lying in a field and immediately […]

Jajpur: Dharmasala Police today arrested a youth from Bhogada village of Khurda district for allegedly uploading obscene pictures of a girl on Facebook. The arrested accused has been identified as Nabakishore Behera. As per sources, the matter came to light after the girl student who hails from Dharmasala area in Jajpur, filed a complaint against […]

Dhenkanal: An elderly man allegedly committed suicide today after hacking his wife to death over a family quarrel at Khalapala village under Balimi police limits of the district. The deceased have been identified as Sudhakar Badia and his wife Sili. As per sources, a quarrel ensued between Sudhakar and Sili at around 11 am in […]

Jajpur: A class VIII girl student was allegedly raped by her school teacher in Binjharpur area of Jajpur. The accused Smrutiranjan Jena, identified as the English teacher in the concerned school, has been arrested by police. The matter came to fore after the family members of the minor girl lodged a complaint with the Lalbag […]

Intensifying the crackdown against circulation of narcotics in the State, the Special Task Force (STF) of Odisha Crime Branch seized huge quantities of brown sugar and arrested three smugglers at Jaleswar area in the district on Friday.

Forest department officials on Friday rescued as many as 150 Indian soft-shell turtles during an illegal smuggling bid from MV- 65 village under Kalimela forest range in the district.

The special squad of the Commissionerate Police seized 1.12 kg of brown sugar worth Rs 1 crore and arrested three persons in this connection in Cuttack.

Bhubaneswar: The Economic Offences Wing (EOW), Bhubaneswar today arrested the Managing Director of real estate company Wellmade Builders Pvt. Ltd., Sk Hasib in connection with a land fraud to the tune of Rs 22.5 lakh. According to sources, a case was registered in pursuance with the order passed by the Orissa High Court in CRLMP […]

Daringbadi: The Daringbadi police of Kandhamal district arrested two persons from Simonbadi for indulging in extortion by posing as Maoists here on Tuesday. The two accused have been identified as mastermind Krupakar Mukhi alias Banua of Simonbadi and Alok Digal of Gudumaha village under K Nuagaon police limits of the district. Police said the duo […]

As many as five excise officials, including a woman constable, were injured in attack by a group of miscreants involved in illicit liquor and ganja trade during a raid at a den, on Thursday.

Unidentified miscreants allegedly looted the donation box (Hundi) of Biswashanti Akhanda Harinama Sankirtan temple located at the west gate of Sri Jagannath temple in Puri on Thursday morning, highlighting serious breach in the high security area.

The Town Police here claimed to have busted a fake foreign liquor bottling plant and detained two persons following a raid on the illegal industrial unit at Khunta area in Mayurbhanj district on Wednesday night.