Acting on a tipoff, they were nabbed near the Bhubaneswar railway station, informed the STF official.
The Crime Investigation Department (CID) of Odisha police arrested two cybercriminals from Madhya Pradesh on the charge of duping a scientist and a businessman from Bhubaneswar and Cuttack to the tune of Rs 3.64 crore in two separate digital arrest and investment fraud cases.
A joint inter-state operation was launched by police of the two states and CRPF personnel in the border areas of Nuapada district of Odisha and Gariabandh district of Chhattisgarh.
The Odisha police have busted an ammunition dump suspected to have been used by Maoists for illegal manufacturing and repair of weapons along the Odisha-Chhattisgarh border in the Malkangiri district, a senior police officer said on Sunday.
A blood-stained trouser bearing a tailor's tag, a money receipt, and an e-wallet transaction record led the Odisha police to solve a chilling murder case in Cuttack district.
The Orissa High Court has directed the State Government to expeditiously grant Rs 50 lakh ex-gratia and family pension to a widow whose husband, a police constable died of Covid-19 during duty when the pandemic was at its peak.
Amid outrage over the alleged rape of a 34-year-old woman from Odisha in Delhi's Sarai Kale Khan Area some four days back, the Odisha police on Monday said it is in touch with its Delhi counterparts seeking early arrest of the perpetrators of the dastardly crime.
The miscreants let loose violence to attack the police vehicle in a bid to snatch away the rescued victim.
Buckling to mounting pressure amid nationwide outrage, the Odisha Government has ordered a judicial probe into the alleged custodial abuse of a serving Army officer and his fiancée in a Bhubaneswar police station on 15 September.
The Orissa High Court on Wednesday granted bail to a female friend of an Army officer of Sikh Regiment amid allegations that the former was unlawfully arrested after the cops of Bharatpur police in Bhubaneswar assaulted the couple besides molesting and stripping the woman.
