Tag: Crime News

Jharsuguda: A youth allegedly hacked to death his sister-in-law over family feud at Bhikhyamapali village under Rengali police limits in Jharsuguda district here on Wednesday. The accused identified as Dayalal Meher attacked his sister-in-law Binita with a sharp weapon following a heated argument with her over some trivial matter, sources said. Later, Dayalal surrendered before […]

Bhubaneswar: Even though the number of cases registered dropped marginally in 2016, on an average alarmingly at least six cases of rapes were filed every day, raising concerns over the safety of women in State. According to the White Paper tabled in the Odisha Assembly, 2,144 rapes were reported last year. The number of cognizable […]

Bhubaneswar: Odisha witnessed a marginal surge in overall crimes with registration of 1,03,702 cases in 2016 as against 1,03,200 cases in the previous year. The White Paper which was tabled by the Home department in the Assembly today, however, claimed a fall in rape cases in 2016. Rape cases nosedived to 2144 last year from […]

Bhubaneswar: With 17,144 cases, Odisha has recorded the maximum number of crime against women in 2015 after Delhi, Assam and Telengana. Figures in National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) show the coastal State had witnessed 14,606 criminal cases against women in the previous year. While the rate of such case cases in every one lakh female […]

Bhubaneswar: To help police in tracking down criminal elements in the shortest possible time, the Odisha government has decided to upload all data relating to all crimes and criminal activities in the intranet network of the State Police under Crime and Criminal Tracking Network and Systems (CCTNS) project. A decision to this effect was taken […]

Bhubaneswar: As many as 1,03,200 cognisable offences were registered in Odisha in 2015, the White Paper on crimes in the state prepared by the Home department and tabled in the Odisha Assembly on Tuesday revealed. According to the White Paper, 1473 murder cases, 486 dacoities, 1787 loots, 4,046 snatching, 10,055 theft, 2,935 fraud, 1,976 riots, […]

The Commissionerate police on Saturday cracked the high-profile and sensational murder case of a doctor couple in Sailashree Vihar area here and arrested three persons in connection with the case

A day after the murder of Balakrushna Patra, former chairman of Buguda NAC in Ganjam district, the local police on Wednesday claimed to have found some clues in the course of their investigation.

Bhubaneswar: As many as 163 criminal cases registered against engineering students in the past three years have left the Commisionerate Police concerned. Worried over the rising rate of crime committed by students undertaking higher studies, police administration has started preparing a database of all engineering students. Notably, engineering and management students have been found involved […]

The District Crime Record Bureau DSP will probe into the killing of a youth during a police encounter in the Dengsaragi area under Ainthapali police limits yesterday, said Sambalpur SP Akhileshwar Singh on Friday.

In an unfortunate incident, the additional district medical officer (ADMO) of Subarnapur district was found dead with throat slit last night

Canberra: A Catholic archbishop in Australia was on Tuesday given a maximum sentence of 12 months in detention for concealing child sexual abuse in the 1970s. Philip Wilson, now archbishop of Adelaide, is the most senior Catholic globally to be convicted of the crime, the BBC reported. He was found guilty by a court in […]

Hyderabad: In a shocking incident, mentally disabled twins were killed by their maternal uncle here, who wanted to relieve his sister from the hardships of looking after the them, police said on Saturday. Srijana Reddy and her twin brother Vishnuvardhan Reddy, both aged 12, were strangulated to death by Mallikarjun Reddy in his rented house […]

Patna: A woman and her daughter were allegedly gangraped by nearly a dozen youths in Bihar’s Gaya district, police said on Thursday. “The police have detained 20 youths and are interrogating them to identify the main accused among them,” Gaya Senior Superintendent of Police Rajeev Mishra told the media.The incident took place on Wednesday night […]

Imphal: Police along with commandos of the 11 Assam Rifles have seized narcotics worth nearly Rs 2 crore from Manipur’s Moreh border town and arrested three drug traffickers. Tengnoupal Police Superintendent S. Ibomcha said some more arrests connected to an international drug cartel were likely following the arrest of the kingpin. The drug haul and […]