Tag: Odisha Crime Branch

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha Crime Investigation Department has issued a public advisory highlighting some of the common methods used by cyberspace fraudsters to execute illegal activities during the ongoing COVID-19 crisis and also suggested several precautionary measures to prevent such frauds. In the advisory issued by the Additional DGP (CID, Crime Branch) SK Priyadarshi, people have […]

Bhubaneswar: Raising questions over Odisha Crime Branch’s alleged snail-pace investigation into social activist Aditya Dash’s suspicious death, members of ‘People For Seva’ trust on Thursday demanded Central Bureau of Investigation’s (CBI) investigation into the matter. Members of the trust alleged that even after 45 days have passed, mysteries still shroud Dash’s death while the State […]

Bhubaneswar: The polygraph test of Bidyashree, wife of deceased social activist, Aditya Dash, concluded on Thursday. The lie-detection test was conducted by the Odisha police Crime Branch which is probing the death of the social activist after it took over the investigation from the Government Railway Police (GRP). According to reports, Bidyashree’s polygraph test was […]

Bhubaneswar: Was the death of social activist Aditya Dash a case of murder or suicide? While the mystery has put Odisha Crime Branch in a fix for over a month now, the lady being tagged by Aditya’s family as a ‘psycho woman’ broke her silence rejecting outright all the ‘baseless claims made by family members […]

Subarnapur: The Special Task Force (STF) of Odisha police Crime Branch busted a pangolin smuggling racket and rescued a pangolin from Mahanadi Bridge near Rajakothi here in the district on Friday and arrested two persons for possessing the animal illegally. Both the smugglers have been identified as Somnath Bag and Marsalan Bhengera of Ulunda under […]

Bhubaneswar: Manoranjan Sarangi, the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of Odisha Television Limited (OTV) said that the crime branch staff who picked him up from his residence in the wee hours on Sunday without any intimation or notice, subjected him to inhuman treatment during detention for several hours. Sarangi said he was woken up from his […]

Bhubaneswar: Vidyashree, the wife of deceased social activist Aditya Dash, has again brought allegations against the Odisha Crime Branch accusing the probe agency of delaying in submitting the status report in connection with the mysterious death case. As per reports, apart from submitting the status report, Vidyashree has further demanded that the Crime Branch should […]

Berhampur: A two-member team of the Odisha Crime Branch (CB) reached Berhampur on Sunday night to investigate the alleged involvement of Akash Pathak, son of tainted IFS officer Abhay Pathak, in connection with a job scam in Ganjam district. The Tata Motors Limited (TML) had in May lodged a complaint against Akash with the Crime […]

Bhubaneswar/Malkangiri: Odisha Police Crime Branch will probe the death case of former Malkangiri Collector Manish Agarwal’s Personal Assistant (PA) Debnarayan Panda. Odisha Police DG Abhay on Thursday ordered a Crime Branch investigation into the death case which continues to remain a mystery. Earlier in the day, wife of the deceased Banaja Panda filed a complaint […]