Tag: Accused

Bolangir: More than two-and-half-month after a sensational loot of cash to the tune of Rs 80 lakh from different bank ATM counters, the Bolangir Town Police  has finally managed to nab the prime accused from Kolkata. Police have also seized cash worth Rs 26,46,700 and 10 SIM cards from the possession of the accused who […]

Puri: On the basis of the statement of the three arrested accused in the brutal murder of lawyer and lodge owner Chandan Behera, police have started interrogation of his wife and kin. Talking to media persons here today, Puri SP Sarthak Sarangi said police have found new angles in this case after interrogating the three […]

Bhubaneswar: Police on Sunday arrested three persons in connection with harassing three girls at Nandankanan road here on Friday, said Police Commissioner YB Khurania. Informing this to the media, Khurania said, the arrested persons have been identified as Madhab Kumar Rout (22), Mrutyunjay Patra (22) and Biswaranjan Pradhan (21). “While Madhab and Mrutyunjay are resident […]

Sambalpur:Police on Thursday took eight persons accused in the seizure of Rs 1.43 crore cash on a four-day remand. The Sub-Divisional Judicial Magistrate (SDJM) court in Sambalpur allowed the police to take the eight accused on a remand yesterday. According to sources, the police had moved the court seeking to take the arrested person on […]

Baripada: Two days after the brutal murder of Balai Soren, former ward member of Badaliya Ghingasahi under Khunta police station in Mayurbhanj district, police arrested the prime accused from Saraskana area in the wee hours today. The arrested has been identified as Kasinath Marandi. “I had managed tolerate the former ward member as he was […]

Brahmagiri: Tension ran high in Brahmagiri area after the students of Brahmeswar College staged a road blockade on Brahmagiri-Delang road this morning demanding immediate arrest of a non-student for misbehaving a Plus Two girl student by passing lewd comments and attacking her with a blade recently. The students later withdrew the blockade after police assured […]

Cuttack: Commissionerate police today nabbed two prime accused, who had gang raped a woman in Jhinkiria village under Sadar police limits after looting valuables from her house late on July 26 night. Giving details of the arrest to media persons here, Cuttack DCP Sanjeev Arora said the two arrested prime accused are Ratnakar Das alias […]

Nayagarh: Police on Thursday managed to arrest an accused hours after his escape from their custody. Reports said police had arrested Surath Behera of Jharadapali village under Bolagarh police station limits in Khurda district in connection with a bike accident at Khandapada on Wednesday. As the accused was injured in the accident, police had admitted […]

Mumbai: Filmmaker Rajkumar Hirani has been accused of sexual assault by a woman who worked with him in his 2018 film “Sanju”. He has denied the allegation. According to a HuffPost India article on Sunday, the woman claimed that Hirani sexually abused her on more than one occasion over a six-month period between March and […]

New Delhi: BJP chief Amit Shah Wednesday accused Rahul Gandhi of resorting to “misogyny” and “insulting” women with his ‘Prime Minister Narendra Modi got a woman to defend him in Parliament’ remarks, saying the Congress president owed an apology to Indian women. Calling Modi a prime minister who claimed to have a broad chest, Gandhi […]

Mumbai: Bollywood filmmaker Sajid Khan who was accused of sexually harassing multiple women, has been suspended for a year by the Indian Film and Television Directors Association (IFTDA), it was announced on Wednesday. Following the PoSH (Prevention of Sexual Harassment) Investigation Closure Report of December 7, 2018 – IFTDA – following the Internal Complaints Committee’s […]

Mumbai: Actress Chitrangada Singh has come out in support of actress Tanushree Dutta, who has accused actor Nana Patekar of sexually harassing her on the sets of their 2008 film “Horn Ok Pleassss”. Asked about the MeToo movement gaining momentum in Bollywood, Chitrangada said: “Indian society is very different from Western society. That’s why I […]

Washington: The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is suing Facebook on behalf of three women job seekers who accused the social media giant of posting ads that are shown only to men. The ACLU, along with the Communications Workers of America and the employment law firm Outten & Golden LLP, on Tuesday filed charges with […]

New Delhi: A Delhi court on Thursday acquitted all the accused in the alleged multi-thousand crore rupee 2G spectrum scandal. Special Judge O.P. Saini acquitted all the accused, including then Telecom Minister A. Raja and DMK MP Kanimohi, in both the cases filed by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and Enforcement Directorate (ED). The […]

Mumbai: A court here, on Monday, sent to police custody till December 13, Vikas Sachdeva, who has been accused of molesting  “Dangal” film’s National Award winning actress Zaira Wasim of  on a flight. A handcuffed Sachdeva was taken to the Dindoshi Sessions Court in Goregaon east this afternoon and has been charged under the Prevention […]