Tag: Crime Branch

RTI activist murder: CB arrests main accused

The Crime Branch of Odisha Police has arrested main accused Kartik Pani from Niali in connection with murder of RTI activist Krupasindhu Sahu, said ADG of the investigating body B.K. Sharma here today

  • Friday, 16 July 2021
ITR espionage: CB gets 4-day remand of Asif Ali

Balasore: The SDJM court here today allowed the Crime Branch of Odisha Police to take Meerut-based Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agent Asif Ali, an accused in the Naib Subedar Patan Kumar Poddar espionage case, on a four-day remand in connection with Integrated Test Range (ITR) information leak case. Ali, arrested in August last and currently lodged […]

  • Friday, 16 July 2021
CB to seek remand of ITR lensman for 4 more days

Cuttack/Balasore: The Crime Branch (CB) of Odisha Police took Ishwar Chandra Behera, accused of spying for Pakistani military spy agency Inter-Services intelligence (ISI), to Balasore for producing him in court there as his remand period ended today. The probe agency will pray the court for four more days’ remand of the accused, ADG B.K. Sharma […]

  • Friday, 16 July 2021
EOW launches toll-free number

The Economic Offences Wing (EOW) of Odisha Police’s Crime Branch (CB) today launched a toll-free number for people of the State to report duping cases

  • Friday, 16 July 2021
Ex-VP of transport co held for Rs 30 cr fraud

Bhubaneswar: Former Deputy Vice President of a coal transport company, Rakesh Chopra was arrested by the Economic Offences Wing of Crime Branch for swindling funds worth Rs 30 cr, informed DIG Sanjay Kumar today. Chopra who was working as the Vice President of Paradip-based Karam Chand Thapar and Brothers Ltd was apprehended by the Crime […]

  • Friday, 16 July 2021
EOW arrests Land India director

Bhubaneswar: The Economic Offences Wing (EOW) of Crime Branch today arrested Brajasundar Mishra, director of chit fund firm Land India Real Estate, on charges of cheating scores of depositors to the tune of Rs 10 crore. Sources said Mishra was luring investors with attractive schemes to provide land and plot at cheaper rates. The company […]

  • Friday, 16 July 2021
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Chit-fund scam: EOW arrests Flourish India director

The Economic Offences Wing (EOW) of Crime Branch arrested the fourth director of chit-fund firm Flourish India on charges of duping depositors of more than Rs 60 crore on Wednesday

  • Friday, 16 July 2021
CB arrests 7 in Ghangapatna land scam

Odisha’s Crime Branch arrested four state government staff and three land buyers in connection with the land grabbing case in Ghangapatna on the outskirts of the city capital after preliminary investigations, said CB ADG B K Sharma on Friday

  • Friday, 16 July 2021
CB starts probe into Sambalpur tuskers' poaching

Sambalpur/Bhubaneswar: The Crime Branch of Odisha police on Friday started investigation into the killing of three wild elephants for tusks in Bamra wild life division and Sambalpur forest range in the district. The move followed after the CB received a direction from the Odisha Forest and Environment department in this regard. A seven-member investigating team […]

  • Friday, 16 July 2021
Realtor arrested for duping investors

The Economic Offences Wing (EOW) of the Odisha Crime Branch has arrested Managing Director of city-based Siridi Sai Real Estate for allegedly duping investors worth Rs 10 crore

  • Friday, 16 July 2021
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Air hostess death: Probe transferred to Crime Branch

New Delhi: The case relating to the alleged suicide of 39-year-old air hostess Anissia Batra has been transferred to the Crime Branch of the Delhi Police, a senior officer said on Wednesday. Batra allegedly killed herself on July 13 after jumping off the terrace of her husband Mayank Singhvi’s house located in South Delhi’s Panchsheel […]

  • Thursday, 08 July 2021
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Burari deaths: CCTV footage reveals more details

New Delhi: More morbid details came out in the mysterious deaths of 11 members of a family in Burari here as CCTV footage showed some members bringing stools and wires that were used for their hanging, even as police recovered 11 diaries that were maintained over a period of 11 years. The content of the […]

  • Tuesday, 29 June 2021
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25 engineering students found writing exam paper in politicos house

Aurangabad: The city Crime Branch today arrested 25 engineering students, including three women, who were found writing exam paper in the house of a Shiv Sena corporator. All the students belonged to the same institute in the city and are studying in the third year. They were writing exam paper which was previously conducted on […]

  • Monday, 28 June 2021
CB registers case against cop for wrongful confinement

Baripada: The Crime Branch of Odisha Police today registered a case against a sub-inspector on charge of wrongful confinement of two persons in a murder case. A case has been registered against Rashmi Ranjan Jena, the then investigating officer (IO) of the alleged murder of a woman at Dhadasahi village under Morada Police Station in […]

  • Monday, 28 June 2021
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Odisha police rescues 122 missing children

The Odisha Police has rescued at least 122 children including one girl child missing from Jammu and Kashmir in past fortnight as part of its Operation Smile-II programme launched on January 1, 2016

  • Monday, 28 June 2021
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