The Odisha Chief Minister's Office has ordered an expedited Crime Branch investigation following allegations of misconduct and assault on a serving Army officer and a woman inside Bharatpur Police Station,

The Odisha government suspended a police officer who allegedly kicked, slapped and sexually assaulted a serving army officer's fiance woman accompanying an army officer. The duo had visited the police station to lodge a complaint of a road rage.

Odisha Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi said on Friday (September 20, 2024) that his government will take stringent action against those involved in the alleged torture of an army officer and sexual assault of his fiancee at a police station in Bhubaneswar.

Meanwhile, the police have countered the allegations, stating that the woman and her Army officer partner, who is with the 22 Sikh Regiment in Kolkata, were intoxicated and had attacked an on-duty officer, damaging police property in the process.

The woman said she was returning home with her friend, the Army officer, after closing her restaurant late at night when some men allegedly misbehaved with them.

The couple had reportedly been assaulted by the police when they visited the station to file a complaint following a road rage incident

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An Army officer's fianc - arrested last week and released on bail Wednesday on charges of assaulting police officers - has now said she was sexually harassed, and her partner illegally jailed, while trying to file a complaint at a police station.

The woman, who had initially been arrested on charges of assaulting the police, was released on bail by the Orissa High Court on Wednesday.

The victim lady, in an alleged assault on an army officer and his lady friend at a police station in Bhubaneswar, on Thursday, narrated the ordeal she was subjected to at the Bharatpur police station on September 15.

The couple were allegedly assaulted by police personnel at the station when they had gone to lodge a complaint against some youths in a road rage incident