Tag: Sit

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 […]

Nayagarh: As if the sufferings following the kidnapping and brutal murder of their only daughter five months ago was not enough, now faced with impoverishment and hunger, the hapless parents of five-year-old Nayagarh girl ‘Pari’ are forced to sell their only source of sustenance, an autorickshaw. The couple—Ashok Sahoo and Soudamini—from Jadupr village in Nayagarh […]

Nayagarh: A day after arresting one person in the sensational kidnapping and murder of five-year-old Nayagarh girl ‘Pari’, the Special Investigation Team (SIT) of Odisha Crime Branch on Monday has clarified that it has sufficient evidence against the arrestee, who is the prime accused in the ghastly crime. “The SIT has acquired sufficient evidence against […]

Nayagarh: Fresh allegations have been levelled against Inspector General of Police Arun Bothra, the head of the Special Investigation Team (SIT) currently investigating the abduction and murder of five-year-old girl of Jadupur village in Nayagarh district. A complaint has been lodged against Bothra at the Nayagarh Sadar Police Station, wherein he has been accused of […]

Bhubaneswar: A day after arresting the accused in the sensational murder of a five-year-old girl at Jadupur village in Nayagarh in July this year, SIT chief Arun Bothra on Tuesday said that the killer had raped the girl after strangulating her to death. Addressing a press conference at the Commissionerate Police headquarters to reveal the […]

Bhubaneswar: The most challenging task before the Special Investigation Team (SIT) after it was given the charge of conducting a belated probe into the case was to recreate the trail of the suspect which had been erased with the passage of time. SIT chief Arun Bothra said, to begin with, the team had to revisit […]

Cuttack: The Bharatiya Bikash Parishad, a social organisation,  on Wednesday filed a miscellaneous petition in the Orissa High Court seeking direction for polygraph test of Arun Bothra, the head of the Special Investigation Team (SIT) investigating the murder of five-year old girl at Jadupur in Nayagarh district. The petitioner, Surendra Panigrahi, who has reiterated his […]

Cuttack: The Orissa High Court on Thursday directed the Special Investigation Team (SIT), probing the sexual assault and murder of a 5-year-old girl at Jadupur village in Nayagarh district, to file the charge-sheet in the case at the earliest. The court observed that the probe agency should file the charge-sheet at the earliest as many […]

Nayagarh: Amidst questions pouring in from all sides on the veracity of the SIT version in the ‘rape and murder’ of the five-year-old girl at Jadupur in Nayagarh district, senior IPS officer Arun Bothra, the head of the Special Investigation Team (SIT) investigating the case, today clarified on the missing-bones claims and the doubts raised […]

Bhubaneswar: Saroj Sethi, the prime accused in the sensational abduction and murder of a five-year-old girl in Nayagarh, is likely to undergo narco analysis test. According to sources, the Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing the murder case on Monday filed a petition in a POCSO court in Nayagarh seeking permission to conduct the narco analysis […]

Nayagarh: The prime accused in the sensational rape and murder of a five-year-old Nayagarh girl reiterated on Sunday that he has been falsely implicated in the case and he doesn’t have any role in the ghastly incident. “I have been trapped in the case. The SIT officials have tortured me in the prison. I have […]