Bhubaneswar, Feb. 5 -- The Economic Offences Wing (EOW) of Odisha Police on Wednesday arrested a couple in a Rs 1.3 crore bank fraud case, said a senior EOW official.

The accused couple identified as Ashirbad Pattnaik and his wife Manogyan Pattnaik were nabbed from the Patia area in Bhubaneswar.

The EOW sleuths apprehended the couple on the basis of a complaint lodged by Sushant Nayak, the regional head of the Financial Crime Prevention Group, ICICI Bank.

As per the complaint, accused Ashirbad, had availed a loan of Rs 3.79 crore from the local branch of a public sector bank in the name of his farm, "AB Solutions" located at Jaydev Vihar area of the city in January 2018.

He had mortgaged two flats and one duplex registered in the name...