Tag: Murder

Titilagarh: A man allegedly strangled his wife to death over a family feud in Tangarapada of Titilagarh district on Wednesday. The man identified as Anil Si, a resident of Bihar, is alleged to have killed his wife, identified as Puja Suna, after a quarrel and heated argument over some issue, on Wednesday night. Police reached […]

Bhubaneswar: Protesting the gang rape and murder of a woman in Kankadahada of Dhenkanal district, the Congress staged demonstration in all district headquarters today. Shouting slogans, activists of the Pradesh Mahila Congress and Pradesh Congress ST & SC Cell staged demonstration in front of all district Collector offices. The Cuttack Mahila Congress took out a […]

Bolangir: The mahant of Sulia mutt at Purunapani under Tusura police station in the district was found murdered on the mutt premises on Saturday with multiple injury marks on his body. Police said unidentified miscreants hacked the Mahant, identified as Basant Das, with an axe to death and fled the spot. An old copy of […]

Bhubaneswar: While tension is mounting in Kankadahada gang rape and murder case, BJD MLA from Parjanga and Transport Minister Nursingha Sahu today demanded capital punishment for the accused. The minister today visited Kankadahada and met the family members of the victim. Talking to newsmen, Sahu said the incident should not be politicised. “The accused should […]

Bhubaneswar: Odisha BJP has today made serious allegations against police in relation to the gang rape and murder of a 45-year-old woman in Balikuma village under Kankadahada police limits in Dhenkanal district. BJP Mahila Morcha president Prabhati Parida alleged that the police are trying to save the people involved in the crime. Addressing a press […]

Dhenkanal: Police today arrested four accused in connection with the gang rape and murder of a woman at Balikuma village under Kankadahada police limits in Dhenkanal district. The four arrested include prime accused Hari Patra, who is the son-in-law of the deceased. According to preliminary investigation, the four had allegedly killed the woman, who has […]

Dhenkanal: A woman was allegedly gang raped and murdered by unknown assailants at Balikuma village in Kankadahada area in Dhenkanal district on Tuesday. According to police, the woman who had lost her husband was brutally beaten up by some unknown persons in her house late on Monday night. Later today her dead body was recovered […]

Koraput: A woman allegedly killed her co-wife over a family dispute and committed suicide at Aminguda village under Sadar police limits in Koraput district last night. Police sources, the first wife Mukta hacked the second wife to death with an axe while the latter was asleep. Later, she fled away and ended her life by […]

Bhubaneswar: A youth was killed by six miscreants near Uttara Square on the city outskirts last night over a village feud. According to sources, the youth, a resident of Baramana village, was attacked by the miscreants while he was returning home from a nearby market. Though he was admitted to the Capital Hospital in critical […]

Berhampur: A married woman was found hanging from a tree at Tantisahi under Kabisuryanagar police limits in Ganjam district today. The deceased was identified as Santoshi Sambari. The police recovered the dead body and sent it for post-mortem. The cops also detained her husband Jagannath Sambari and are interrogating him. Sources said Santoshi, a native […]

Sambalpur: In a ghastly incident, the deadbody of a woman lying naked with the throat slit, a missing leg and several injury marks was recovered by the GRP personnel on a railway track near Belapada police limits in Sambalpur today. It is suspected that she might have been raped and killed thereafter. A water bottle […]

Bhubaneswar: Commissionerate police today arrested Bapi Patnaik, the prime accused in the Tamando firing incident in which a youth was killed on the outskirts of the city on March 15. The deceased identified as Abhijit Behera was alleged shot at by Bapi and four others over suspected past rivalry. A special team including special squad […]

Gunupur: In a fit of rage, a woman allegedly axed her husband to death today over a family discord at Gunupur in Rayagada district. As per sources, the couple had an a+ltercation in the evening, which took an ugly turn when the man beat his wife black and blue. In retaliation, the wife also attacked […]

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 […]

Bolangir: In another ghastly manifestation of superstition, a man on Wednesday hacked his sister with a sword to death and later went on to claim it was an act of human sacrifice to appease village goddess in Dangaghata village under Bolangir sadar police limits in the district. As per allegations, Tripura Mallick of Dangaghata village […]