The Odisha Director General of Police (DGP) has placed the Inspector-In-Charge (IIC) of the Talachua Marine Police Station in Odisha's Kendrapara district under suspension after it was, prima facie, established that she was involved in the custodial torture of a mother-son duo inside the police station.
The CID-Crime Branch of Odisha Police on Tuesday arrested one of the main culprits in the sensational mob lynching case of a Government Railway Police (GRP) constable at Balianta on the outskirts of Bhubaneswar earlier this month.
The victims were rushed to a nearby hospital, where doctors declared them brought dead.
The vigilance department officials have uncovered 97 land parcels, five buildings, two farmhouses, a market complex and other assets in the case.
Police in Odisha’s Malkangiri district have unearthed an interstate online betting racket and arrested four scammers, including two kingpins, from Raipur in Chhattisgarh.
The Anti-corruption Vigilance Wing of the Odisha Police on Tuesday arrested a divisional forest officer for allegedly amassing disproportionate assets to the tune of 218% more than his known sources of income.
As many as 115 plots owned by a divisional forest officer in the Keonjhar district.
Trinamul Congress has been very vocal about the migrant labourers from Bengal being detained in various states, especially in Odisha. The party has highlighted the detention of 23 migrant workers from Nadia by Odisha police.
The National Human Rights Commission has asked the Odisha police to submit an action taken report on the alleged stripping and parading of migrant workers from West Bengal, with their hands tied by a group of locals in Sundargarh district.
Odisha Police has put in place elaborate security arrangements in accordance with the security protocol in Bhubaneswar ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's scheduled visit on Friday.
