Tag: Special Task Force

Bhubaneswar: A joint team of personnel from security agencies and Fire Services today undertook mock drill at a shopping mall in Bhubaneswar to gauge its preparedness in case of a terror attack. As per reports, a mock bomb blast was carried out at the Esplanade One Mall this morning following which personnel of Special Task […]

Cuttack: The Special Task Force (STF) of the Odisha Crime Branch today raided the house of drugs smuggler Sheikh Raja near Galapola in Arada Bazaar area of Balasore district. Raja was arrested by the Crime Branch on September 16. As per reports, a five-member team of STF including the Additional SP raided Raja’s house and […]

Bhubaneswar: The Special Task Force (STF) of Crime Branch today arrested gangster Tito’s key associate Sk Jabid alias Danga of Imambada in Kendrapara district on charges of kidnapping and thrashing a contractor in 2017. As per reports, Jabid had allegedly kidnapped contractor Siba Prasad Parida from his office on September 9, 2017 after the latter […]

Kalahandi: Carrying out probe into the recent seizure of leopard hide and elephant tusk, the Special Task Force (STF) of the CID-Crime Branch arrested two more persons of an interstate wildlife smuggling gang including the poacher Bhaskar Nayak. Apart from Nayak, a middleman identified as Badhu Majhi has also been arrested in connection with the […]

Bhubaneswar: A joint team of Directorate of Drugs Controller and Special Task Force of Commissionerate Police busted a fake handwash and sanitizer manufacturing unit in Jharpara area of the capital city here on Monday. Also Read: Fake Cough Syrup Smuggling: Odisha Police Busts Factory In Gujarat, 2 Arrested Acting on a tip-off, Drugs Inspectors Sudarsan Biswal, […]

Bhubaneswar: The Special Task Force (STF) of Odisha Police Crime Branch on Friday achieved a major breakthrough in crackdown against illegal narcotics trade and seized nearly 4.5kg of heroin (brown sugar) from Rasulgarh area in Bhubaneswar. Three peddlers- Debasish Behera, SK Kausar Ali and Prabir Kumar Singh have been arrested by STF in connection with […]

Jajpur: The Special Task Force (STF) of Odisha Crime Branch busted a fake chewing tobacco (zarda) manufacturing unit in Jajpur district on Friday and seized a huge cache of tobacco products and equipment and machines used in the manufacture. Acting on a tip-off, the STF conducted a raid on the illegal tobacco manufacturing unit in […]

Koraput: The Special Task Force (STF) of the Crime Branch seized Fake Indian Currency Notes (FICN) worth over Rs 3 lakh following raids at two places in Koraput district on Wednesday morning. Acting on a tip-off on illegal trade of fake currency notes about to take place, a team from the STF raided two places […]

Bhubaneswar: The Special Task Force (STF) of the State CID, Crime Branch on Tuesday arrested a drug peddler from Khordha district following seizure of 302 grams brown sugar from his possession. As per reports, the accused Akhay Baliarsingh was nabbed by a team of the STF while he was trying to strike a deal of […]

Bhubaneswar: The Special Task Force (STF) of Crime Branch is now on a mission mode to wipe out illegal narcotics trade in Odisha. The probe agency on Thursday seized Brown Sugar weighing 1 kg 310 grams following a raid in Khordha district. A peddler, identified as SK Anwar of Kaipadar area has been arrested in […]

Bhubaneswar: Odisha has been witnessing a steep rise in the instances of wildlife crimes which was again evident after the Special Task Force (STF) of the Crime Branch seized a leopard skin at Bolagarh in Khordha district on Wednesday. Though the STF has so far managed to nab a number of poachers and traders of […]