A special CBI court in Odisha has sent former state advocate general Ashok Mohanty to judicial custody till Sep 30, a lawyer said Thursday. Local lawyers had called for a strike yesterday. Mohanty was in Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) custody on a two-day remand after being arrested Monday fr...

Members of the Odisha High Court Bar Association launched a two-day cease-work agitation Wednesday to protest the arrest of former state advocate general Ashok Mohanty by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) over his alleged involvement in the chit fund scam. “The CBI did not follow the procedu...

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has arrested Ashok Mohanty, who was the state’s advocate general from 2009 until May of this year, according to reports . Mohanty was arrested in Cuttack over his alleged link with the Artha Tatwa group, which along with 43 other companies was allegedly invo...