Crime News Updates

Bhubaneswar: Commissionerate Police on Monday arrested a youth for allegedly trying to rape a girl sitting on dharna near Lower PMG road in Bhubaneswar. As per reports, the girl along with her sister hailing from Lamtaput area in Koraput district, was sitting on dharna when one Kalu Nayak allegedly tried to rape her yesterday night. […]

Balasore: Police arrested two drug peddlers and seized 38.64 gm brown sugar from Markona area under Simulia Police limits in Balasore district on Monday. According to reports, Simulia Police arrested the accused while they were heading to Bhadrak on a bike. Police had specific intelligence regarding the transportation of the contraband items. The market value […]

Bargarh: A heated verbal duel turned fatal for a man after he was allegedly killed while buying country liquor near Sohela Bazar in Bargarh. The incident reportedly occurred during the Ravan Podi Utsav near Sohela Bazar area Tuesday night. According to sources, the deceased Sanjib Pradhan of Sareipali area had an argument with four persons- […]

Kendrapara: A minor girl in Kendrapara district was allegedly raped by two men while she had gone outside to attend to nature’s call, police said on Wednesday. The accused have been arrested, they said. “The duo have confessed to the crime. They gangraped her while the 14-year-old girl had gone to a field to answer […]

Cuttack: Two unidentified miscreants allegedly looted an elderly man after offering him lift near Cuttack Link Road area. Even though the incident reportedly happened on Wednesday, the matter came to light yesterday after the elderly man lodged a complaint with police in this regard. According to sources, one Prafulla Behera of Mahulapada area under Dhenkanal […]

Rourkela: Like any another online shopper, Garima Agarwal of Bisra area in Rourkela had ordered a product and was awaiting delivery of the same. However, she allegedly lost Rs 50,000 from her Paytm account in an online fraud through Unified Payments Interface (UPI) application. As per reports, Agarwal while surfing internet stumbled upon a number […]

Balasore: Armed miscreants looted over Rs 10,000 after thrashing a driver and conductor of a private bus in Balasore on Saturday night. The incident occurred at an isolated place near Jamudiha chhak. As per reports, the bus was on its way to Bhubaneswar from Sarata area in Mayurbhanj. Sources said the bus driver had earlier […]

Bhubaneswar: The Economic Offences Wing (EOW) of the State Crime Branch on Saturday arrested Bishnu Prasad Sahu, owner of Sahil Enterprises for allegedly duping nearly two dozens of investors to…

Cuttack: A notorious criminal and absconding accused in a loot incident in Gurudijhatia area was nabbed after police encounter in Choudwar area of Cuttack in the early hours of Monday. The accused identified as Muna Dehury of Gundichapur village under Sadar police limits in Dhenkanal has sustained bullet injuries on his left leg and undergoing […]

Rourkela: Looters strike again. In the wee hours of today,  a gang of five miscreants looted Rs.10 Lakh  in front of the Kuanramunda Panchayat office. As per reports, miscreants have reportedly decamped with a vehicle carrying  pension money at gun point. In a bid to terrorise the employees, the miscreants had resorted to blank firing […]

Kendrapara: Pattamundai Police in Kendrapara district foiled a man’s alleged abduction bid and rescued two minor girls on Tuesday. Rakesh Tripathy, IIC, Pattamundai Police Station informed that police swung into action after getting a written complaint from the girls’ parents and detained the accused from Palasingha area on charges of abducting the minor girls. “We […]

Jajpur: Suspense deepened over the death of lady village level worker (VLW) & in-charge panchayat executive officer (PEO) of Haridaspur, whose body was found hanging from the guest house of local sarpanch’s husband yesterday, as family members today ruled out suicide theory and demanded a probe. Deceased Smitarani Biswal’s husband Sushil today demanded a detailed […]

Cuttack: A man was shot dead by unidentified assailants near Madhupalli under Baidyapur Police Station in the district late last night. The deceased Arjun Baliarsingh, who is suspected to be murdered over past enmity, was a resident of Manipur village under Fatehgarh police limits of Nayagarh district. As per reports, some bike-borne miscreants allegedly took […]

Kalahandi: Incidents of crime and sexual assault against women continues unabated in Odisha as yet another girl was allegedly raped by a youth, this time inside a car on the pretext of offering her lift. The incident, which took place in Dharmagarh area of Kalahandi district on October 5, came to light today after the […]

Phulbani: Adding to the sorry tale of Odisha’s track record of being in the top-10 infamous states in the country where the crime rate against women is worryingly high, a lady doctor in Boudh district on Tuesday lodged a police complaint against a man for allegedly sexually harassing her in the pretext of marriage. According […]