Odisha CB Begins Process For Freezing Bank Accounts Of Gangster Tito, Relatives

Bhubaneswar: The Special Task Force (STF) of Odisha Crime Branch on Wednesday began the process for freezing the bank accounts of gangster Tito alias Syed Usman Ali, his wife and 16 of their relatives.

During the course of the investigation, the Crime Branch came acrose more than 50 accounts, belonging to Tito and his relatives, in 34 banks.

The investigating agency has also written to tehsildars of Kendrapara, Dharmasala, Balichandrapur, Garadpur, Pattamundai, Marsaghai and Mahakalapada for information pertaining to tendering process of Balighats and involvement of Tito and his aides in it.

The Crime Branch has also served a notice to producer of Odia movie Biswanath over allegations that Tito had invested in it. The mahurat of the film was held in the recent past.

Further inquiry is on for more vital information in the matter and to ascertain whether the gangster invested in any other films.

Earlier, the Crime Branch sleuths had produced Tito before the Kendrapara SDJM court and sought 10-day remand for interrogating him on his crime network, inter-state and business links. However, the court granted permission for remand of four more days on July 9.

The STF had taken him on five-day remand on June 4.

An STF team had also visited Kolkata on Sunday to obtain information regarding Tito’s alleged links and properties in the city.

Properties, including land, vehicles and houses, worth Rs 2 crore were unravelled during the raid, the sources added.