Tag: Police

Bhubaneswar: In a major breakthrough, the Commissionerate Police on Saturday arrested Bhola Bhagat, a close associate of gangster brothers Sushant and Sushil Dhalasamanta from Kanpur. Informing the media about the arrest here this evening, Police Commissioner YB Khurania said; “We tracked him down (Bhagat) while he was moving from Howrah to Kanpur in a train,” […]

Berhampur: More skeletons are tumbling out of the closets of former Congress MLA Ramesh Jena in connection with his criminal activities in and around the silk city. On Friday, city police registered a case against the ex-Sanakhemundi legislator and five others, including his father, for their alleged involvement in guthka business, both in Vizag and […]

Bhubaneswar: Mahila police here on Friday sent a notice to Pankaj Mahakud, son of independent MLA from Champua Sanatan Mahakud, asking him to record his statement in connection with a torture case filed by a lady claiming to be his wife. Pankaj has been asked by the police to appear physically and record his statement […]

Cuttack: It was a busy day for the Commissionerate police on Saturday. In the morning, they arrested Subas Behera, an aide of D brothers – Sushil and Sushat Dhalasamanta – from Kalyani Nagar area. In the evening, they interrogated Sambit Behera, an office bearer of Cuttack Nagar Yuvak Sangh for his suspected links with the […]

Cuttack: Tightening its noose around gangster brothers Sushil and Sushant Dhalasamanta, the Chauliaganj police on Saturday arrested one of their aides from Kalyani Nagar area here. Police said, Nibas Behera alias Mantu was nabbed from his house in Kalyani Nagar area this morning. Mantu has more than a dozen criminal records in various police stations, […]

Bhubaneswar: The police on Thursday began investigation into the suspected links of five SIMI members with Talibans based in Afghanistan. Highly placed sources said, a special team of Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) interrogated the SIMI operatives to ascertain their suspected money transactions with the Talibans. Meanwhile a team of Madhya Pradesh police, which is […]

After dodging the police for four days, TV actress Pralipta Priyadarshini Samal alias Jessy finally appeared before Soro police on Friday hours after the district police served her a notice to appear before it and cooperate in the investigation into the death of TV serial actor Ranjit Pattnayak alias Raja

Bhubaneswar: An FIR was lodged at Hirakud police station against senior BJP leader and former minister Jay Narayan Mishra on Wednesday for misbehaving with police. The case was registered on a complaint lodged by Hirakud PS IIC Tophan Bag. Sources said an altercation ensued between Mishra and Bag when police tried to stop Mishra’s vehicle, […]

Bhubaneswar: Commissionerate Police on Tuesday said it will file a chargesheet against city-based engineering student Tarini Prasad Roy, who had hacked the official website of Orissa University of Agriculture and Technology (OUAT) four days back. “After arrest, we have released him (Roy) on a personal recognizance (PR) bond. There was no need to forward him […]

Bhubaneswar: Hours after confirming that some students might be involved in the hacking of the official website of Orissa University of Agriculture and Technology (OUAT), a student of the city-based private engineering college went to the Khandagiri police station and accepted his involvement in the crime. The student has been identified as Tarini Prasad Samantray. […]

Bhubaneswar: The Commissionerate police on Saturday started investigation into the hacking of the official website of Orissa University of Agriculture and Technology (OUAT). “We have received a complaint from the OUAT authorities regarding the hacking of their official website. We are investigating the matter. We have to check whether it is a mischievous act by […]

Director General of Police (DGP) KB Singh on Saturday said over 5000 additional posts would be created in the Odisha Police very soon of which 4000 constables of the Odisha Auxiliary Police Force (OAPF) would be engaged in civil policing

Bhubaneswar: Reacting to the reported statement of Odisha DGP that stoppage of central funding for police modernisation will hit the force, the BJP today said such a remark is grossly misleading and will confuse the public regarding the intention of the Central government. Financing for modernisation of police forces has been stopped in all states […]

Dhaka: The bullet-ridden bodies of two Rohingya men were found on Saturday near a refugee camp in Bangladesh’s Cox’s Bazar, the police said. The camp is home to some 700,000 people from the ethnic Muslim minority group who fled a military campaign against them in Myanmar over a year ago. The bodies were found by […]

New Delhi: A journalist working with a private news channel here has been arrested for allegedly raping his woman colleague, a police officer said on Sunday. The man, identified as Rahul Suri, heads one department in the news channel. Police said the victim, in her 20s and a native of Kerala, approached the Punjabi Bagh […]