Tag: Arun Bothra

Nayagarh: The newly appointed Odisha in-charge of BJP, D Purandeswai on Thursday lashed out at the BJD-led State government for ‘protecting’ Agriculture Minister Arun Sahoo whose alleged role in the abduction and killing of five-year-old Nayagarh girl, ‘Pari’, has come under the scanner. During her maiden visit to Odisha following her appointment as the new […]

Nayagarh: At a time when the mysterious kidnapping and murder of five-year-old girl ‘Pari’ in Nayagarh has created shockwaves in Odisha, another girl from the district has reportedly gone missing. As per reports, the three-year-old girl was last seen playing near her house at Dadhipatna village under Ranpur block in the district on Friday afternoon. […]

Bhubaneswar: There has been no substantial progress in the on-going investigation by the Special Investigation Team (SIT) to nab the ‘real culprit’ involved in the alleged rape and brutal murder of the five-year-old girl from Nayagarh district, observed the Orissa High Court on Thursday. The Court’s observation came following the submission of a status report […]

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) today demanded the removal of IPS officer Arun Bothra as the head of the Special Investigation Team (SIT) which is investigating the sensational abduction and murder case of a five-year-old Nayagarh girl whose skeletal remains were found days after kidnapping in July this year. The […]

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha police on Friday sought to term the accusations made by a youth that he had been offered Rs. 5 lakh by SIT chief Arun Bothra to own up the alleged kidnapping, rape and murder of 5-year-old Nayagarh girl ‘Pari’, as ‘baseless’. The police clarification came a day after Saroj Sethi, a resident […]

Bhubaneswar: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) today cornered the ruling Biju Janata Dal (BJD) in Odisha over the alleged kidnapping, rape and murder of a five-year-old Nayagarh girl ‘Pari’. Lekhasri Samantsinghar, general secretary of the State BJP unit, on Saturday raised questions over the police investigation into the case and accused BJD Minister Arun Sahoo […]

Bhubaneswar: The National Commission for Protection of Child Rights has found several discrepancies in the primary investigation conducted by Odisha Police in the alleged kidnapping and subsequent rape and murder of Pari, the five-year-old girl from Nayagarh district whose skeletal remains were found almost 10 days after she went missing from her village in the […]

Bhubaneswar: Saroj Sethi, who kicked off a major controversy by making cash for crime allegations against SIT chief Arun Bothra in the sensational ‘Pari’ rape and murder case, continued to be interrogated while the investigating agency has reportedly conducted polygraph test of his family members. Sethi’s family members including his mother and sister today informed […]

Bhubaneswar: The Special Investigation Team (SIT) of Odisha Crime Branch has made a major breakthrough by arresting one person for his alleged involvement in the sensational abduction and subsequent murder of five-year-old Nayagarh girl ‘Pari’. Through a press release, the SIT confirmed that the arrestee is a resident of Jadupur in Nayagarh district, which is […]

Bhubaneswar: With senior IPS officer Arun Bothra led SIT making the first arrest in the sensational Pari murder case after a long gap of exactly 126 days of the incident, the charges slapped by the SIT bares the plot behind five-year old girl Pari’s disappearance from her native village Jadupur in Nayagarh on July 14. […]