Category: Crime

A blood-stained shirt found near a river helped the Odisha Police solve a mysterious murder case involving a 35-year-old woman. The woman’s body was discovered on December 13 on the banks of the Kathjodi River in Cuttack. Since no one reported her missing, police were unsure how to identify her.

The police found a weapon, a chopper, and tried to piece together the clues. There were tattoos on the woman’s arms, but they didn’t help in identifying her. However, they discovered a blood-stained shirt and pants that had a tailor’s tag from ‘New Star Tailors.’

The police decided to investigate this tag and found several tailors with similar names across Odisha. They checked each one but found no match. Then, a tailor in Ganjam told them that such tags are also used in Gujarat. So, they contacted the Gujarat police, who located a tailor in Surat.

The tailor revealed that the shirt was made for a customer named ‘Babu.’ He also mentioned he had sent ₹100 to ‘Babu’ via mobile pay. The police tracked down the mobile number, which led them to Jaganath Duhuri, known as Babu.

Jaganath was found traveling by train back to Surat when the police arrested him. During questioning, he confessed that he was the deceased woman’s brother-in-law and had committed the crime with the help of his brother, Balaram Duhuri (the woman’s husband), and his cousin, Hapi Duhuri. All three men have been arrested.

The police said the motive behind this crime was a long-standing marital disagreement between the woman and her husband. Balaram was suspicious that she was having an affair.

On Saturday, two police officers were suspended for being careless. This happened after a gas cylinder explosion at an illegal gas filling site in Shahpur Bhamaroli village, near the Dubagga police station, on Friday. The explosion hurt six people badly, including four workers inside the house and two children nearby. They are all in serious condition.

Omveer Singh, the Deputy Commissioner of Police for the West area, took action after learning that officers Ramsevak Rana and Manoj Kumar did not stop the illegal activity. “I visited the site and found out from local residents that this illegal gas filling has been going on for 5 to 6 months,” said Singh.

The blast took place around 7:00 PM at the home of Rohit Gupta, where residents revealed he had been secretly refilling gas cylinders. Singh is looking into the case with the help of the Assistant Commissioner of Police from Malihabad and has promised strict actions against any other officers involved.

In the South East District, the Cyber Police have arrested a fraudster named Kalyan Roy, who lives in Thakurmura village, Tripura, near the Bangladesh border. They found him with Rs 2.40 lakh (240,000 rupees) that he had scammed from a victim.

Kalyan Roy tricked a man named Sunil Verma into believing he was getting gifts from a foreign woman he met on Facebook. In September 2021, Sunil started chatting with an American woman who claimed she was sending him gold, mobile phones, and money through a courier. The woman asked Sunil to accept these items for her.

In October 2021, Sunil received a call from someone claiming to be a delivery person, saying that a package with expensive gifts was waiting for him at the courier office. This caller asked Sunil to pay a fee to get the package. Believing it was real, Sunil paid a total of Rs 2,66,500 (266,500 rupees) into a bank account given by the scammer. Unfortunately, after paying, the caller stopped answering.

Sunil filed a complaint at the police station, and the Cybercrime unit began investigating. After a lot of work, they found out that Kalyan Roy was behind the fraud. The police raided his village over three days and finally arrested him.

During questioning, Kalyan admitted he worked with friends to scam people by pretending to send fake parcels. He said he did this to make money quickly. So far, there are no signs of previous crimes against him. More investigation is still happening, and more information will come soon.

A man from Jagraon borrowed cars from his friends and sold them for ₹6 lakh without telling them. This man, Gurraj Singh, claimed to Rajan Vaidh, a car dealer, that the cars were stolen.

A few months ago, Gurraj told Rajan he had two cars, a Toyota Innova and a Swift Dzire, that belonged to his neighbors who wanted to sell them. Rajan trusted him and paid ₹6 lakh for the cars.

Later, Rajan was shocked when the Jagraon crime branch called him and said the cars actually belonged to two other people. They discovered that Gurraj sold the cars without asking their real owners.

Police officer ASI Satnam Singh is looking into the case. When Gurraj was called in, he promised to return the ₹6 lakh to Rajan but hasn’t done so yet. An FIR has been filed against Gurraj under Section 420 of the Indian Penal Code, and police are working to find him.