3 held for attempt to rape band party singer
Jajpur: Police on Tuesday arrested three persons on the charge of trying to rape a 20-year-old girl at Ravana under the Jakhapura police station in Jajpur district on Monday night. The accused were identified as Sunil Behera (30), Dushasana Behera (35) and Akash Behera (26) of Ravana village. The girl, who works as a singer in a band party in Bhubaneswar, had filed an FIR that she was invited by Sunil to Ravana to attend his birthday party. But on Monday night, the three accused persons including Sunil tried to rape her. The girl was medically examined and the report is awaited, said Jakhapura PS IIC Umakanta Nayak. The arrested persons were produced in the Judicial Magistrate First Class Court at Jajpur Road, which rejected their bail applications and remanded them to jail custody.
Jajpur man held for sexual assault on minor
Jajpur: The Derabish police on Tuesday night nabbed one Bijay Kumar Swain of Deshpur for allegedly sexual assaulting a four-year-old girl at Nuahaat village. On Tuesday evening, Swain, who has a chemist shop at Nuahaat, committed sexual offence with the minor after luring her to come near him for taking mixture. When the matter came to the notice of her family members and locals, they detained Swain. later, the police nabbed the accused. The girl’s father later lodged an FIR at the Derabish police station.
Man arrested for matricide in Jajpur
Jajpur: A 35 -year-old man was arrested on Wednesday on the charge of killing his widowed mother on Tuesday night over a family dispute at Goudapatana under the Barachana police station in Jajpur district.
Khirod Jena, cousin of the accused Chittaranjan Jena, had filed an FIR at the police station on Wednesday alleging that the accused in a sudden rage attacked his mother Parbati (65) with a wooden plank at 10.30 PM on Tuesday and she died on the spot. On Wednesday, the accused was produced in the court of Judicial Magistrate First Class (JMFC) at Chandikhol. The court rejected his bail application and remanded him to jail custody.
JSPl Tensa bags Kalinga Safety award
Bhubaneswar: The Jindal Steel and Power ltd (JSPl), has been conferred with the Kalinga Safety Award- 2013 for its best mining practices at the TRB Iron Ore Mines, Tensa. JSPl General Manager and Mines head Kamala Kanta Nanda received the award on behalf of the company from High Commissioner of South Africa France Morule at the two-day fifth Odisha State Safety Conclave held here on September 26. Among others, Additional Chief Secretary Ashok Kumar Tripathy, Forest Department Principal Secretary RK Sharma and Deputy DG of Mines Safety, Ranchi P Ranganatheswar were present.