Bhubaneswar: The Economic Offences Wing (EOW) of the Crime Branch of Odisha Police on Monday registered second criminal case against Saradha Group chief Sudipto Sen on the charges of duping about 6,000 investors in Puri district, official sources said.
The EOW personnel on Monday recorded statements of a number of investors from Puri town, Nimapara and Sakhigopal area before registering the case.
Though a number of agents of Saradha Group came forward to record their statements, the EOW on initial phase refused to accept their versions on the basis that they too were among the accused persons who cheated the investors, the sources said.
Saradha Group has closed its office at the holy town since mid-April and its officials vanished from the place after the mass duping came to light in Kolkata. The EOW was likely to seal Saradha's office in a day or two as it did in Balasore, the official said....
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10:58 PM, May 06, 2013
Balasore: The Economic Offence Wing (EOW) of Crime Branch of Odisha Police on Friday broke open the office of the Saradha Group in Balasore and seized certain documents relating to alleged duping of gullible investors in the district. The officials of the EOW with the help of the local police and in presence of a magistrate broke open the doors of Saradha Group's main office at Fakir Mohan Gole, the...
03:02 AM, May 04, 2013
Bitti's father former Odisha DGP BB Mohanty is innocent, said Kerala Police after quizzing him in Cuttak on Saturday. A special investigation team of Kerala Police, which is probing impersonation and forgery charges against Bitihotra Mohanty, convicted for raping a German woman, interrogated BB Mohanty at the office of the Deputy Commissioner of Police. ...
06:04 PM, Mar 16, 2013
Former Odisha DGP BB Mohanty, father of rape convict Bitti Mohanty, has been holed up inside his house and has refused to come and speak to the media. Mohanty had denied allegations that he has been helping his son run from the law for the past seven years. ...
11:59 PM, Mar 11, 2013
Former Odisha DG BB Mohanty is under scrutiny for allegedly aiding his son Bitti Mohanty, a rape convict, while he was absconding. Rama Rao, a former headmaster of a school in Puttaparthy, Andhra Pradesh, where Bitti worked under a false name while he was on the run, claims he had a regular visitor who he can identify as BB Mohanty. ...
10:29 AM, Mar 11, 2013
In 1999, Anjana Mishra, the former wife of an IFS officer in Odisha, was gangraped on the outskirts of Bubaneswar by three local goons. The CBI took the case, but the prime accused was never arrested. While the other two accused were convicted, Anjana believes the inability of the police to apprehend the rape accused and escaped rape convicts like Bitti Mohanty just encourage violent crime against women. ...
08:30 PM, Mar 09, 2013
At least 50 persons, including women, were injured when private college teachers and security personnel fought a pitched battle in front of the Odisha assembly in Bhubaneswar on Friday, the police said. ...
10:36 PM, Feb 22, 2013
In 2005, the Odisha government had passed an order to set up a 'Woman & Child' desk in every police station in the state. Eight years on, the scheme seems to exists only on paper. ...
08:33 AM, Jan 14, 2013
Bhubaneswar: In a shocking incident, a doctor at Bhubaneswar's Apollo hospital stabbed his colleague, seriously injuring him. Reports say that Dr Pramod Patra stabbed Dr Nayan Ranjan Nanda with a knife. The reasons for the brutal assault are unknown. The police is investigating the case. The accused doctor has not been arrested yet. Sources say that the incident happened on Tuesday morning but the hospital authorities delayed in informing the...
02:02 PM, Sep 18, 2012
Bhubaneswar: Around 200 protesters on Monday were taken into custody for picketing near government offices, torching an empty college bus and pelting stones at a few vehicles during a state-wide bandh which disrupted train and road traffic and hit normal life. The bandh has been called by Congress against alleged police crackdown on partymen during a rally on September 6. More than a dozen trains were stopped at several railway...
11:54 AM, Sep 10, 2012
Bhubaneswar: Life came to a standstill in Odisha on Monday as Congress called for a statewide bandh to protest against the police action against partymen on Thursday when they protested over coalgate outside the state Assembly. According to reports, most schools and colleges are shut. Trains and other modes of public transport have been disrupted. A college bus was torched by a few protesters and a few vehicles were pelted...
09:01 AM, Sep 10, 2012
Bhubaneswar: The woman constable, who was on Thursday beaten up by Congress workers outside the Odisha Assembly in Bhubaneswar, is recovering in a city hospital. Meanwhile, the Odisha Police have registered six FIRs in connection with the violent protests. The police have also arrested as many as 33 people in the case. Thursday's incident also led to chaos in the Odisha Assembly on Friday as MLAs from the Congress party...
05:11 PM, Sep 07, 2012
Protests over coal blocks allocation turned violent in Odisha when several thousand Congress workers clashed with police. ...
11:43 PM, Sep 06, 2012
Over 100 Congress workers and 60 Odisha Police personnel including a lady constable have been injured in the violence in Bhubaneshwar. ...
06:46 PM, Sep 06, 2012
Bhubaneshwar: Protests over coal blocks allocation turned violent in Odisha when several thousand Congress workers clashed with police outside the state Assembly in Bhubaneshwar. The Congress workers were demanding the resignation of Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik alleging that he recommended people for allocation of coal blocks. Police lathicharged the Congress workers, used water canon and fired tear gas to disperse then after they allegedly attacked them. Police officials claimed...
03:01 PM, Sep 06, 2012
Jajpur: A man was arrested on Thursday for allegedly raping a minor girl in Chandikhole area in the district, police said. The accused, identified as Mangulu Pradhan, 31 of Paikarapur village was taken into custody after the girl filed a written complaint with Barachana police and alleged that she was picked up from Chandikhole bazaar, kept in confinement and sexually assaulted by Pradhan for three consecutive days. The 15-year old...
02:32 AM, Jul 20, 2012
Bhubaneswar: After a lull for several months, the Odisha government is now examining whether it should resume night-combing operation in Maoist-hit districts which had been stopped a few years ago. The issue was discussed at length during a meeting between Chief Secretary B K Patnaik and newly-appointed DGP Prakash Mishra in Bhubaneswar on Saturday. "We are examining the matter regarding beginning of the night operation. The state police will discuss...
08:33 PM, Jul 07, 2012
Bhubaneswar: Odisha DGP MM Praharaj said that there is a terror threat during Rath Yatra in Puri from the extremist groups and hence, there is a heavy security deployment as the majestic Jagannath Rath Yatra began on Thursday. The annual Rath Yatra began in Puri, Odisha and Ahmedabad, Gujarat. Odisha DGP has advised people to stay alert and not to panic. "We have intelligence inputs of a possible bomb blast...
09:49 AM, Jun 21, 2012
Bhubaneswar: Weeks after the abduction and unharmed release of an MLA and two Italian national, the Naxals in Odisha abducted and shot dead a police officer. Assistant Sub Inspector Kruparam Majhi was shot dead soon after his abduction in the Nuapada district of the state. The question being raised after the incident is " are the police becoming too much of an easy target? At around 12 noon, Assistant Sub...
09:01 PM, May 08, 2012
Bhubaneswar: The Odisha police association on Monday threatened to boycott duty in Maoist-infested areas if the government releases hardcore Maoists. This comes after the Odisha government bowed down before the Maoists and announced that it would release 27 Maoists to in exchange for Biju Janata Dal (BJD) MLA Jhina Hikaka and Italian national Paolo Bosusco. CNN-IBN had earlier reported that the security forces were unhappy over the decision of Odisha...
06:02 PM, Apr 09, 2012
