Tag: Arrest

Cuttack: Vigilance will take arrested executive engineer of General Public Health Dayanidhi Samal on one-day remand. According to source, a local court allowed the anti-corruption wing of the Odisha Police to take Samal on remand for further interrogation. On Saturday night, vigilance sleuths had arrested Samal while he was taking a bribe of Rs 50,000 […]

Bhubaneswar: Vigilance sleuths on Saturday night arrested Executive engineer of General Public Health Dayanidhi Samal while he was taking a bribe of Rs 50,000 from a contractor to provide him a contract. According to Vigilance sources, sleuths of the agency conducted raids at Samal’s house in Cuttack, his ancestral house and his office and seized […]

Puri: Kumbharapada police on Friday arrested a man for allegedly duping lakhs of rupees by identifying himself as a CBI official. The accused has been identified as Rashmi Ranjan Das. According to sources, Das has duped people worth lakhs of rupees after promising them jobs and helping them with some works at the tehsildar office […]

Puri/ Keonjhar: Vigilance sleuths on Tuesday arrested Digapahandai Sub Jailor Bibhuti Bhusan Patnaik while he was taking a bribe of Rs 10, 000. According to sources, the anti corruption wing nabbed Patnaik while he was taking the bribe from a contractor promising him to provide the contract of food supply to the jail. Besides, it […]

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha Assembly on Tuesday witnessed uproarious scene over the suicide of a farmer of Harabhanga village in Balangir district with the Opposition Congress members demanding immediate arrest of Balangir sub collector. Drawing the attention of the Speaker through a special mention during Zero Hour, Leader of the Opposition Narasingh Mishra and Congress chief […]

Cuttack: The Special Task Force (STF) of Odisha Crime Branch has sought 15 days’ remand of arrested suspected Al-Qaeda operative Abdur rehman. According to special DG of Crime Branch BK Sharma, the STF has applied before the Patiala House court in New Delhi to take the suspected terrorist on a 15-day remand. A three-member team […]

Cuttack: Tightening its noose around gangster brothers Sushil and Sushant Dhalasamanta, the Chauliaganj police on Saturday arrested one of their aides from Kalyani Nagar area here. Police said, Nibas Behera alias Mantu was nabbed from his house in Kalyani Nagar area this morning. Mantu has more than a dozen criminal records in various police stations, […]

Cuttack: The Orissa High Court on Friday ordered the arrest of two District Education Officers (DEOs) for violating its order in connection with the transfer case of a Madrasa teacher. Hearing the petition filed by one Khaleduz Jama Rehman, the HC directed the State government to arrest Kapilendra Mishra and Prakash Joshi, DEOs of Jajpur […]

Bhubaneswar: Vigilance sleuths on Thursday arrested Athgarh divisional forest officer (DFO) Sudhansu Mishra from whom properties worth Rs six crore, disproportionate to his known source of income was seized yesterday. Vigilance officials said Mishra has been remanded to judicial custody for 15 days. “Since it is a clear matter of disproportionate of assets, a case […]

Balasore: In a stunning turn to the death case of television actor Ranjit Patnaik alias Raja, Soro police on Tuesday arrested actress Pralipta Priyadarshini Samal alias Jessy. Jessy has been sent to judicial custody for 15 days after her bail plea was rejected by the SDJM court. “She (Jessy) has been arrested under Section 306 […]

Cuttack: Police on Monday arrested Sukesh Sahu alias Sola, a close associate of gangster brothers Sushil and Sushant Dhalsamant, even as it urged the Cuttack Sadar SDJM court for a seven-day remand of the criminal siblings. If granted, this will be D-brothers’ third phase of remand for the Commissionerate police. Sola was formally arrested for […]

Bhubaneswar/New Delhi: A retired Army officer, recipient of gallantry award, has been arrested by Crime Branch’s Economic Offences Wing (EOW) for his involvement in a case of land fraud to the tune of Rs 30 crore. Lt Colonel (Retd) Rakesh Rana, a recipient of Kirti Chakra, the second highest peacetime gallantry award, was arrested in […]

Bhubaneswar: The Commissionerate Police on Friday said it will seek remand of suspected Bangladeshi national Mohammad Bashir in connection with the latter’s attempt to secure passport by producing forged documents at the Regional Passport Office (RPO) here. The police said it will also seek the remand of Bashir’s aide, who was arrested for his alleged […]

Imphal: Eighty students and six professors of the Manipur University were arrested after police stormed the boys’ hostel early on Friday following a complaint by the Vice Chancellor’s office, officials said. According to Inspectors General of Police S. Kailun and Clay Khongsai, the police entered the campus right after midnight on the basis of a […]

New Delhi: Two suspected Islamic State (IS) militants hailing from Jammu and Kashmir have been arrested from here, police said on Friday. The suspects were arrested from the Red Fort area on Thursday night, Deputy Commissioner of Police, Special Cell, P.S. Kushwah said. Kushwah said the arrested were suspected to be associated with the global […]