Jagdev -"the conqueror"

Bhubaneswar, June 7: Acting on a warrant case issued by the Rourkela SDJM court, the commissionerate police today arrested Jyotirani Sarangi, wife of Seashore group Chief Prashant Dash, for her alleged role in duping investors of crores of rupees in Rourkela. Acting on a tip off, Laxmisagar police this evening nabbed Ms Jyotirani from her room located in Majestic Apartment of Laxmisagar area following a raid.  Police sources said, she had duped investors crores of rupees by collecting small deposits promising them to provide high returns on the sum. Though the local police here refused to divulge details about the case, sources said the company had opened a branch at Civil Township in Rourkela and had cheated investors operated by the accused. She had played one of the directors in the branch. Aggrieved on the Seashore officials, who had failed to return the money collected by the company, the investors had lodged three complaints separately at the Raghunathpalli...

Bhubaneswar, Sept 6: Panic struck residents of the Banalata Apartment located in Saheed Nagar area in Odisha capital when a 45-year-old lady doctor committed suicide by jumping from the 8th floor of the apartment this afternoon. Suicide (Courtesy- newsfirst.lk ) Though the incident took place around 1.30 pm, the deceased body was reportedly recovered an hour later by the police who were informed by the apartment people. The deceased, identified as Swetapadma Mishra, a gynecologist working at Jagannath Hospital located under Saheed Nagar police limits, was then rushed to Apollo hospital in the city where she was declared brought dead. Her body was then shifted to Capital hospital here for the post-mortem. Police sources said though the actual death of Swetapadma, wife of Arijit Mohapatra, a pediatrics at the same hospital, is yet to be ascertained, but the deceased parents have lodged a complaint at the local police station bringing a...

Bhubaneswar, Sept 5: Showing her bravery in fighting two looteras, a 35-year-old woman today managed to catch the miscreants, who had planned to snatch her gold chain while she was entering to her residence in Rasulgarh area in Odisha capital with her scooty, getting help of local people. The miscreants identified as Bijay Kumar Sahu and Harihar Das, both hail from Haladipadia under Laxmisagar police limits were later handed over to the Mancheswar police personnel by the locals. Police sources said while the complainant Deepti Rekha Rout of Rasulgarh area was returning with her child in scooty this afternoon, two bike-borne miscreants followed her vehicle. The accused persons tried to snatch the lady’s gold chain when she was entering her residence. “The accused persons first tried to snatch the gold chain of the lady and when she resisted they took hold of her child and tried to harm her. The lady did not lose her nerve and fought till last minute to catch the looters. ...

Bhubaneswar, May 22: Notorious Odisha gangster Anil Chhotray, along with 15 others, was today acquitted by a local court here in connection with the sensational Prachi Division shootout case in the capital city in April 2005. Pic Courtesy:  gunssavelives.net The Second Additional District Sessions Judge Court, in its judgement, acquitted the accused persons in the shootout case due to lack of evidence. Sources in the court said the Judge found incoherence in investigation carried out by the Nayapalli police and the State Crime Branch during their filing of charge-sheets at the court. It may be recalled that two petty contractors Rubu alias Subash Chandra Das and Dhiren Kumar Sethi were chased and shot dead near Prachi Divisional Executive Engineer's office in the heart of city on April 18, 2005, by three unidentified armed assailants over tender fixing issue. An FIR was filed by Prakash Chandra Das, brother of deceased Subash, with the Nayapalli police foll...

Bhubaneswar: The Civil Supplies Department officials have seized 700 litres of kerosene, meant for the Public Distribution System (PDS), from two persons in the city on Friday. The accused are identified as Sarbeswar Patnaik and Purna Chandra Sahu of unit-4 market where they were running the illegal sale of kerosene in their cycle store. According to sources, to put a tap on the malpractices in the unit-4 area, the Civil Supplies Department officials have geared them up to conduct raids in all the shops. The team seized 700 litres of kerosene, meant for public distribution and detained the duo Patnaik and Sahu for selling in open market. Interrogation in to the incident is going on, said the official sources.

Bhubaneswar: In order to sensitize auto drivers and public towards protecting girl child and stopping women violence, the city-based voluntary organization named centre for child and women development (CCWD), action aid group, Commissionerate Police, Beti Zindabad and Maa Sikhar Chandi auto owners association jointly organised an awareness drive ‘sensitize auto-drivers to eliminate violence against women and girls’ at Saileshree Vihar here on Sunday. Heading the meeting, Dr Rajendra Prasad Sharma, twin city Commissioner of Police focused on massive scale awareness which is highly essential to end the violence against women and girls. According to survey, nearly 60 per cent women violence occurs in domestic work, 55 per cent in unorganised sector and 25 per cent in working place. Similarly around 6 out of 10 girls abused every day in the cities and women’s are molested which is a serious issue. The illusion towards girls is not only limited within illiterate communities of rural...

Bhubaneswar: City-based non-banking financial company Flourish India director Aditya Kumar Bisoi was arrested by the Economic Offence Wing (EOW) of the State Crime Branch here on Monday night for allegedly duping investors across the state. Crime Branch DIG Rajesh Kumar informed that the EOW personnel arrested Bisoi on the basis of several complaints lodged by the investors against the company at Barapali police station of Bargarh district. He would be produced before a local court in Barapali on Tuesday, the DIG added. Kumar further said the company duped investors more than Rs 100 crore in the State. The EOW is investigating about the collection and transaction of money and other details of their investments, he added. The company had been allegedly collecting money illegally through its 132 branches across the State during last eight years, said the sources. Earlier, the probing agency had arrested two officials of the company CMD Ballav Prasad Nayak and former CMD...

Bhubaneswar: The Commissionerate Police on Sunday arrested a 34-year-old man on the charge of duping job aspirants in the state. The accused was identified as Subash Parida of Jamapada under Patkura police station in Kendrapada district now staying in Saheed Nagar, forwarded to court today. Parida working as a supervisor in a private mobile tower company in Saheed Nagar has duped crores of rupees from several job aspirants promising them to provide job in a shipping company. Parida has duped nearly 100 job aspirants including matriculate and engineers of Kendrapada, Cuttack and Khurda districts and duped with Rs 1.2 crore from them, collecting money ranging from Rs 50,000 to Rs 2 lakh. One Bhakta Batsala Swain of Kendrapada on Sunday lodged a complaint at Nayapalli police station alleging that Parida duped Rs 6.2 lakh from him promising him to give a better salaried job in a private company. Acting on Swain’s complaint the police arrested Parida from Saheed Nagar...

Twin city Commissioner Dr Rajendra Prasad Sharma Bhubaneswar: Contrary to the claim of the son and husband of the murdered Bachan Sudha Pattanayak that more than one person was involved in killing her, Twin city Commissioner of Police Dr Rajendra Prasad Sharma on Tuesday clarified that the arrested security guard Dipti Ranjan Patnaik was the only accused in committing the offence. Basing on the psychoanalysis report which was conducted on the accused last week to know whether more than one person was involved in the crime, the Commissioner said “The forensic psychoanalysis assessment report revealed that Dipti was the only offender in the crime. No accomplice of him is involved in killing Bachan Sudha Pattanayak.” Notably, the report was submitted to the Commissioner late on Monday night by expert Dr Asha Srivastav, a clinical psychologist of the Central Forensic Science Laboratory in New Delhi who conducted the analysis on Dipti to examine the mental status of the accu...

Dipti Ranjan Patnaik Bhubaneswar: After taking security guard Dipti Ranjan Patnaik on five-day police remand from Jharpada Jail to conduct various test on him following interrogations about the heinous crime in connection with the broad day-light murder of city-based businessman’s wife Bachansudha Pattanayak on September 11 in the city, the Commissionerate Police conducted psychoanalysis test on him on Thursday. The test was conducted by an expert Dr Asha Shrivastav, a clinical psychologist of the Central Forensic Science Laboratory in New Delhi and is also working for the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), to examine the mental status of the accused. During the marathon interrogation held at the Commissionerate Police headquarters here, the security guard was asked on crime related questions in order to find possible involvement of more persons in the related crime. He was quizzed by the expert in an isolated room. The whole interrogation process took around seven h...