Tag: Arun Bothra

Bhubaneswar: With life returning to normalcy amid the pandemic, all eyes are now on whether the bus services in and around the twin cities of Bhubaneswar and Cuttack would return to a normal in the near future. Managing Director of the Capital Region Urban Transport (CRUT) Arun Bothra is however hopeful that services will normalise […]

Bhubaneswar: ‘Mo Bus’, the city bus service of Capital Region has won the top award of the country for the second time in a row, this year for the innovations undertaken in the urban transport during the pandemic. The award was conferred by Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA), in a national level conference […]

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government on Saturday selected senior IPS officer Arun Bothra to head a special investigation team (SIT) which has been formed to investigate the alleged kidnapping and murder of Pari, a five-year-old girl whose body had been found days after she went missing while playing near her house in a village in Nayagarh […]

Bhubaneswar: With the baby steps on Tuesday, the SIT-led investigation into the Nayagarh minor murder case has hit the ground running. But a bumpy road lies ahead for SIT chief IGP Arun Bothra(of Patnagarh parcel bomb case fame) in Nayagarh. Unlike the Patnagarh blast case, the Corpus delecti – body of crime, though not necessarily […]

Nayagarh: In another shocking disclosure that might put the police in a fix, the family of 5-year-old girl Pari who was allegedly abducted and murdered in July this year, Wednesday alleged that they were being pressurized by police to change their statements and the name of the accused in their complaint. When all this while […]

Bhubaneswar: Names have power, said American author Rick Riordan. Going by the adage, the name Arun Bothra has so far emphatically displayed that power of conviction. Even, literally speaking, this IPS officer was given the mantle of CEO of a power utility (CESU), when the utility was bleeding red. Besides, donning the cop hat, Bothra […]

Bhubaneswar: The sensational Nayagarh minor girl (Pari) murder case seems to have made some headway, when SIT chief Arun Bothra Saturday told media “give us 14 days time”. The five-worded sentence is considered as signs of headway by observers amidst the clouds of despair looming over this politically stormy case, where the Nayagarh police had […]

Bhubaneswar: Former Odisha DGP and senior BJP leader Prakash Mishra on Monday raised serious doubts over the jurisdiction of the Arun Bothra-led Special Investigation Team (SIT) to investigate the sensational Pari murder case at Nayagarh. “It’s a hogwash,” he said The SIT has been formed by the State Government, led by senior IPS officer Arun […]

Bhubaneswar: With the Orissa High Court still to give its consent to monitor the Special Investigation Team (SIT) on Nayagarh Minor (Pari) Murder case, the big legal hurdle before the SIT is it cannot record statement of the suspects or the witnesses to the case. The big poser then will the SIT exercise in Nayagarh […]

Nayagarh: A day after arresting one person in the sensational kidnapping and murder of five-year-old Nayagarh girl ‘Pari’, the Special Investigation Team (SIT) of Odisha Crime Branch on Monday has clarified that it has sufficient evidence against the arrestee, who is the prime accused in the ghastly crime. “The SIT has acquired sufficient evidence against […]

Nayagarh: Fresh allegations have been levelled against Inspector General of Police Arun Bothra, the head of the Special Investigation Team (SIT) currently investigating the abduction and murder of five-year-old girl of Jadupur village in Nayagarh district. A complaint has been lodged against Bothra at the Nayagarh Sadar Police Station, wherein he has been accused of […]

Bhubaneswar: A day after arresting the accused in the sensational murder of a five-year-old girl at Jadupur village in Nayagarh in July this year, SIT chief Arun Bothra on Tuesday said that the killer had raped the girl after strangulating her to death. Addressing a press conference at the Commissionerate Police headquarters to reveal the […]

Bhubaneswar: The key elements of the probe in the sensational murder case of the five-year-old minor girl in Nayagarh revealed by SIT chief Arun Bothra is sure to shake the conscience of the state and the nation. He said the accused youth killed the minor girl when she resisted his sexual advances, and then eventually […]

Bhubaneswar: The most challenging task before the Special Investigation Team (SIT) after it was given the charge of conducting a belated probe into the case was to recreate the trail of the suspect which had been erased with the passage of time. SIT chief Arun Bothra said, to begin with, the team had to revisit […]

Bhubaneswar: Hours after the sensational revelation of the SIT chief on the murder of five-year-old girl from Nayagarh and how the main accused, Saroj Sethi, executed the barbaric act, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) slammed the probe panel head IPS Arun Bothra and alleged that he is trying to save the neck of Minister Arun […]