Tag: Sit

Cuttack: The three-member Special Investigation Team (SIT) constituted by the Orissa High Court to investigate Kunduli gang rape and suicide incidents, today submitted a probe report in connection with the case before the HC. The SIT comprising southern range DIG Satyabrata Bhoi, northern range DIG Himanshu Lal and south western range, Koraput, DIG Shefeen Ahmed […]

Chandigarh: Punjab DGP Dinkar Gupta on Wednesday ordered the constitution of two Special Investigation Teams (SITs) to fast-track investigations into all five FIRs registered with regard to the hooch tragedy that claimed over 100 lives in the state last week. While DIG (Ferozepur Range) Hardial Singh Mann will head the SIT for investigating FIRs registered […]

New Delhi: The Special Investigation Team (SIT) of the nation’s premier investigating agency, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), on Friday met senior officials and apprised them of the findings into the mysterious death of actor Sushant Singh Rajput. The team, which returned from Mumbai almost a month after recording the statements of several people […]

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government under pressure from Opposition parties and large-scale public outrage over the soft paddling in the investigation into the sensational murder of five-year-old Nayagarh girl Pari, finally agreed to institute probe by a special Investigation Team (SIT), on Saturday. Parliamentary Affairs Minister in the Naveen Patnaik government, Bikram Kesari Arukha made the […]

Bhubaneswar: A day after creating a storm by terming the kidnapping and murder of five-year-old Nayagarh girl ‘Pari’ ‘a minor incident’, BJD vice-president and Khandapada MLA Soumya Ranjan Patnaik on Saturday took a U-turn, claiming that his version had been distorted by some people for gaining political mileage. “Some people with a bleak political future […]

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government on Saturday selected senior IPS officer Arun Bothra to head a special investigation team (SIT) which has been formed to investigate the alleged kidnapping and murder of Pari, a five-year-old girl whose body had been found days after she went missing while playing near her house in a village in Nayagarh […]

Bhubaneswar: The Vigilance department on Saturday formed a 20-member Special Investigation Team (SIT) to probe into the alleged possession of disproportionate assets by arrested IFS officer Abhay Kant Pathak. Both Pathak and his son Akash were remanded to judicial custody till December 9 following their arrests on Friday. Odisha government has also suspended Pathak from […]

Bhubaneswar: The Special Investigation Team (SIT) which has been constituted following  massive outcry across State to probe the ghastly ‘Pari’ kidnapping and murder case visited Jadupur, the native village of the victim in Nayagarh district on Tuesday to begin the investigation. The SIT led by senior IPS officer Arun Bothra will hold discussions with Nayagarh […]

Cuttack: A PIL was filed in Orissa Court, seeking a CBI or court-monitored SIT probe into the alleged irregularities in loans at district cooperative bank in Athagarh of Cuttack district. Bharatiya Bikash Parishad, which filed the petition in the court, has made parties to eight individuals including Odisha Chief Secretary and CBI in the case. […]

Bhubaneswar: With the baby steps on Tuesday, the SIT-led investigation into the Nayagarh minor murder case has hit the ground running. But a bumpy road lies ahead for SIT chief IGP Arun Bothra(of Patnagarh parcel bomb case fame) in Nayagarh. Unlike the Patnagarh blast case, the Corpus delecti – body of crime, though not necessarily […]

Nayagarh: In another shocking disclosure that might put the police in a fix, the family of 5-year-old girl Pari who was allegedly abducted and murdered in July this year, Wednesday alleged that they were being pressurized by police to change their statements and the name of the accused in their complaint. When all this while […]

Berhampur: The Vigilance department on Thursday stumbled upon six more bank accounts of suspended IFS officer Abhay Kant Pathak in Berhampur. The development assumes much significance as the anti-corruption wing had found evidence of another Rs 5.29 crore cash deposited in the accounts of Akash, the son of senior IFS officer on Tuesday. More skeletons […]

Bhubaneswar: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Thursday began probe into money laundering charges and financial affairs of suspended IFS officer Abhay Kant Pathak and his son Akash who are under Vigilance scanner for their lavish lifestyle. “We have started our probe today. We will probe all the allegations of money laundering and other deposits and […]

Nayagarh: The investigation into the alleged abduction and murder of 5-year-old Nayagarh girl Pari gathered steam with the Special Investigation Team (SIT) subjecting prime suspect Babuli Nayak to a second round of questioning on Saturday, even as his driver Bijay Behera has now been included in the ambit of the probe. Their questioning was underway […]

Bhubaneswar: Former Odisha DGP and senior BJP leader Prakash Mishra on Monday raised serious doubts over the jurisdiction of the Arun Bothra-led Special Investigation Team (SIT) to investigate the sensational Pari murder case at Nayagarh. “It’s a hogwash,” he said The SIT has been formed by the State Government, led by senior IPS officer Arun […]