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.
The Economic Offences Wing of Odisha police arrested six fraudsters, including a woman, on the charge of perpetrating Rs 16.71 crore fraud in a nationalised bank by impersonating as highly paid employees of PhonePe, an digital payments and financial services company.
74 cattle being illegally transported to slaughterhouses in West Bengal were rescued during a raid at Juriaghati Chowk in Keonjhar district.
The Indian pangolin is a Schedule-I protected animal under the Wildlife Protection Act, 1972.
The fraudsters opened about 2,000 mule accounts in different parts of the country, mainly in Odisha, West Bengal, Bihar and Assam.
More than 500 Maoist supporters surrendered before the Odisha police in Swabhiman Anchal of Malkangiri district on Monday.
The officials suspect that the Chinese nationals are also running a similar scam in countries like Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Nepal and Bangladesh.
