Crime News Updates

The police have also arrested his associate Jhon Babu on charges of filming the gory act.

Six naga sadhus came to the Gundicha temple at Raghunathpur on Saturday and spent the night there.  During their stay, they made acquaintance with their victim, a resident of Raghunathpur village.

Among the arrested, three were allegedly involved in in-house cultivation of cannabis at a rented house, they said.

The cyber-financial fraud came to light after Ratna Tripathy of Nayapalli area Bhubaneswar lodged a complaint in this regard. The victim alleged that she received a phone call on June 19 where the caller introduced himself as an employee of FedEx, Hyderabad.

The deceased’s family has been pleading with the administration and state government to bring back the body to Odisha.

Senior police officials said that the accused Manoj Parida of Ganjam district is a noted criminal and around 13 cases are pending against him at various police stations. All the four accused involved in the contractor's murder have been produced before the court.

Forester Mati Hansda was shot dead allegedly by poachers inside the Similipal Tiger Reserve (STR) on June 16.

The Bhubaneswar Special Court pronounced its judgment after hearing 11 witnesses and going through 15 documents and several circumstantial evidence. 

The STF is now trying to join the dots as one of the accused Pritam Kar (31), who was arrested from Jajpur district, had provided SIM card and debit card which was used by the accused involved in the last year’s Mangalore auto blast (terror act).

On Friday, Jagannath Sena staged a demonstration in front of Gundicha temple and filed a complaint with the police in connection with the alleged cheating by the online platform.

The family members of the deceased claimed that they have no clue about the incident, as there was no dispute in the family.

The deceased has been identified as Bijayeeni Sahoo, a resident of Jagantsinghpur, who was working as a receptionist at a private organization in Bhubaneswar.

Rs 500 notes stashed in six cartoons have been seized from the house of Prasanta Rout's neighbour during raid at Kanan Vihar in Bhubaneswar.

A single-judge bench of Justice Sashikanta Mishra ordered that the case be probed under Sections 306/120-B/34 IPC (abetment of suicide) instead of 302/506/201/204 of IPC (murder).

Sashikant floated a Ponzi scheme and promised the investors in his village and around Aul to double whatever money they deposit in the scheme, in three months.