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Raipur, Oct 24 (PTI) The wife of a police sub-inspector has accused Indian Police Service (IPS) officer Ratan Lal Dangi of Chhattisgarh of physical, mental and financial harassment, while the latter has levelled charges of blackmail against her, officials have said. The department has formed a committee to probe into the matter, they said. "On October 15, a complaint was received from the victim woman alleging physical, mental, and financial harassment against Ratan Lal Dangi, a 2003-batch Ind ...Read More >
Chandigarh: The FIR in the alleged suicide of Rohtak ASI Sandeep Kumar mentions grave charges levelled by his wife, Santosh, on IAS officer Amneet P Kumar, her brother Amit Rattan, a Punjab AAP MLA, and two others, saying "unbearable pressure" from them drove the police officer to shoot himself."This tragic incident reflects the ongoing struggle between corruption and honesty within the police system," says Santosh in the complaint that forms the basis of the FIR.Amneet is the wife of IPS office ...Read More >
Pistol recovered; duo linked to ₹20-lakh extortion threat, says DGP Gaurav Yadav. Further probe on to trace linkages: ADGP AGTF Promod Ban In a breakthrough in the ongoing drive to make Punjab a safe and secure place, the Anti-Gangster Task Force (AGTF) of Punjab, in a joint operation with Hoshiarpur Police, arrested Krishan Gopal and his son Keshav, both residents of Baincha village in Hoshiarpur, in connection with the targeted firing at Ganpati Jewellers on October 18. Director General of ...Read More >
NEW DELHI: A violent crime trail that stretched from Bihar's Sitamarhi to the national capital ended early on Thursday morning in Delhi's biggest encounter since 2019, when a joint operation by the Delhi and Bihar Police killed four wanted gangsters. The slain men, part of Bihar's Sigma & Company extortion gang, were allegedly planning violent strikes ahead of the upcoming Bihar Assembly elections. The encounter, conducted jointly by the Crime Branch of Delhi Police and the Bihar Police, took p ...Read More >
New Delhi, Oct 23 (PTI) Four wanted criminals, allegedly involved in multiple cases of extortion-cum-murder in Bihar and planning a major operation ahead of the assembly elections there, were killed in a shootout with police in Delhi's Rohini in the early hours of Thursday, officials said. The operation was carried out jointly by Delhi Police and Bihar Police. Those killed were identified as Ranjan Pathak (25), Bimlesh Mahto alias Bimlesh Sahni (25), Manish Pathak (33) and Aman Thakur (21), al ...Read More >
New Delhi: Four wanted criminals allegedly involved in multiple cases of murder in Bihar were killed in a shootout with a joint team of Delhi Police and Bihar Police in Rohini in the early hours of Thursday, police said.The accused, identified as Ranjan Pathak (25), Bimlesh Mahto alias Bimlesh Sahni (25), Manish Pathak (33) and Aman Thakur (21), all residents of Bihar's Sitamarhi district, were part of the 'Sigma Gang', they said. The encounter, which took place around 2.20 am on Bahadur Shah M ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], October 23 (ANI): India has invited Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney to New Delhi for talks with Prime Minister Modi early next year, a move that could pave the way for a comprehensive economic and free-trade partnership, The Globe and Mail Canada reported. Dinesh Kumar Patnaik, India's new High Commissioner to Canada, told The Globe and Mail that both countries are making a "sincere effort" to repair strained diplomatic relations and focus on trade and investment amid ong ...Read More >
BRS MLA Sabitha Indra Reddy has called for a judicial probe into alleged gun threats and corruption involving Congress leaders, including Chief Minister Revanth Reddy. She questioned police inaction and demanded transparency, while former Minister Satyavati Rathod claimed law and order had collapsed under Congress governance. Hyderabad: BRS MLA and former Minister P. Sabitha Indra Reddy on Sunday demanded a judicial probe into the gun culture and corruption within the Congress government. She q ...Read More >
OTTAWA -- India's new envoy to Canada says Ottawa should pivot away from pursuing a scaled-down trade deal and instead reach for a comprehensive trade and investment agreement with the world's most populous country. In a wide-ranging interview with The Canadian Press, Indian High Commissioner Dinesh Patnaik also said Canadian businesses should expand trade and investment ties with India now, without waiting for governments to sign a formal trade agreement. "We are more interested in a comprehe ...Read More >
The CBI arrested DIG Harcharan Singh Bhullar and a middleman on bribery charges after an iron merchant alleged a ₹8 lakh demand. Searches at Bhullar's premises uncovered approximately ₹5 crore in cash, jewelry, luxury watches, and multiple firearms. The agency also seized ₹21 lakh and property documents from the alleged middleman. The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Thursday arrested DIG (Ropar range) Harcharan Singh Bhullar and an alleged middleman on bribery charges after an iro ...Read More >
Hyderabad: A late night police visit to the Jubilee Hills residence of endowments minister Konda Surekha on Wednesday has triggered a political firestorm, deepening fissures within the ruling Congress and reviving old rivalries in Warangal's volatile turf.On Wednesday night, Hyderabad police task force personnel in plain clothes tried to detain N Sumanth, Surekha's recently terminated officer on special duty (OSD). Although no FIR was registered, their unannounced entry into the minister's home ...Read More >
Jaipur: The fourth and final fugitive wanted in the murder of Kuchaman-based businessman Ramesh Rulaniya (42) was arrested from Indore Saturday, marking the end of a two-week interstate manhunt.SP (Didwana-Kuchaman) Richa Tomar said that the accused, Juber Ahmad (21), was present at the crime scene inside the gym when Rulaniya was shot dead on Oct 7.Ahmad, who carried a cash reward of Rs 1 lakh, had gone underground immediately after the murder. Following the arrest of his three accomplices from ...Read More >
New Delhi, Oct 18 (SocialNews.XYZ) In a late-night encounter in the forests near Bhavisa village under Kandhla police station limits in Uttar Pradesh's Shamli district, notorious gangster Nafis alias Muda, carrying a reward of Rs 1 lakh on his head, was shot dead by the police. Superintendent of Police (SP) Shamli, NP Singh, said amid the ongoing campaign against criminals, all outpost in-charges and station officers intensified night checks. On Friday night, near the Bhavisa outpost, police s ...Read More >
The rights panel has directed that the allegations made in a complaint before it is inquired into, according to the proceedings of a case before a bench of the National Human Rights Commission . The complainant alleged that "roadside vendors and hawkers/pottery sellers are being subjected to unnecessary and inhumane treatment investigation" and action by municipal authorities concerned across various cities in India, and he has sought the intervention of the NHRC in the matter. These vendors a ...Read More >
Bengaluru: Deputy Chief Minister D.K. Shivakumar on Saturday attributed the ongoing contractor payment delays in Karnataka to financial mismanagement by the previous BJP government. Speaking during the "Bengaluru Nadige" (Walk for Bengaluru) initiative at Vengayyana Kere Eco Park in K.R. Puram, Shivakumar said that the former BJP administration had sanctioned projects far exceeding the state's budgetary limits, resulting in the current crisis. "The contractors' dues are not my personal respons ...Read More >
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday sought responses from the Centre and CBI in a suo motu case initiated over digital arrest scams, where cybercriminals impersonating law enforcement officials extort money from people. A bench of justices Surya Kant and Joymalya Bagchi, while sending notice to the Centre and CBI, said it was aghast that the fraudsters behind such scams often use forged court orders to trick people into parting with their money. The bench sought assistance of the attorney ge ...Read More >
Mumbai: A 40-year-old jewellery designer was allegedly kidnapped and assaulted for recovering gold worth ₹76 lakh that the accused claimed he had taken from them. The accused confined him overnight in a flat in Parel and also extorted ₹3.14 lakh from him before releasing him the next day. Six accused have been arrested and one is still absconding, the police said. According to the police, the incident took place on Tuesday night when the victim, Khokan Mandal, was sitting outside his building. ...Read More >
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Friday sought to know from the ministry of home affairs and CBI what pan-India action was required to unearth cybercrime syndicates extorting money from people, especially senior citizens, by threatening them with digital arrest."We are of the prima facie view that stern action on panIndia basis with coordinated efforts between central (agencies) and state police is required to unearth the full extent of this criminal enterprise involving forgery of judicial documents ...Read More >
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday sought responses from the Centre and CBI in a suo motu case initiated over digital arrest scams, where cybercriminals impersonating law enforcement officials extort money from people. A bench of justices Surya Kant and Joymalya Bagchi, while sending notice to the Centre and CBI, said it was aghast that the fraudsters behind such scams often use forged court orders to trick people into parting with their money. The bench sought assistance of the attorney ge ...Read More >
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday took serious note of the digital arrest of a senior citizen couple, on the basis of forged orders of the apex court and probe agencies by fraudsters to extort Rs 1.05 crore, and issued notice to the Centre, Central Bureau of Inverstigation (CBI) and others after registering a suo motu case relating to digital arrests scams resulting into defrauding of senior citizens of their life savings. The matter came up before a bench comprising Justices Surya Kant an ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], October 17 (ANI): The Supreme Court on Friday took suo motu cognisance of incidents of digital arrest scams, where fraudsters impersonate law enforcement agencies or judicial authorities to extort money from citizens, particularly senior citizens, and sought a response from the Centre and the CBI. A bench of Justices Surya Kant and Joymalya Bagchi observed that the fabrication of judicial orders bearing forged signatures of the judges strikes at the very foundation of the pub ...Read More >
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Friday took serious note of the digital arrest of a senior citizen couple in Haryana's Ambala on the basis of forged orders of the court and probe agencies by fraudsters to extort Rs 1.05 crore. A bench of Justices Surya Kant and Joymalya Bagchi flagged the rising number of digital arrest cases across the country and sought the response of the Centre, CBI in a case registered as suo motu after the 73-year-old woman wrote to Chief Justice of India B R Gavai. The ...Read More >
Hyderabad: The entire episode of endowments and forests minister Konda Surekha has not only become a major embarrassment to the ruling Congress government in Telangana, but has opened a pandora's box of issues happening inside the cabinet. After the late night incident of task force police personnel looking for N Sumanth, Konda Surekha's Officer on Special Duty (OSD) who was removed from service at her residence, and her daughter Sushmitha getting into an argument with the police officer; sever ...Read More >
CHANDIGARH: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) today arrested Deputy Inspector General of Punjab Police Harcharan Singh Bhullar from his office in connection with an alleged corruption case, as he was caught red-handed by the agency's sleuths accepting a bribe. Sources said that the complainant, a scrap dealer from Fatehgarh Sahib, stated that the 2007-batch IPS officer Bhullar, posted as DIG of Ropar Range, had demanded Rs 5 lakh to settle a claim. The DIG had called him to his office ...Read More >
Hyderabad, Oct 16 (PTI) High drama unfolded at the residence of Telangana Forest and Endowments Minister Konda Surekha here when police arrived to take custody of the minister's Officer on Special Duty (OSD) N Sumanth, who was recently terminated over alleged irregularities. Based on information that Sumanth was present at the minister's residence, Task Force personnel (a wing of police) reached there on October 15 night to pick him up as part of an inquiry, police sources said on Thursday, dec ...Read More >
New Delhi: Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Thursday appealed to all the State governments to set up a special cell in the state capital for absconding fugitives, stating that the absence of such cells always creates challenges in the extradition process of the criminals. "All states should have a special cell for absconders in the state capital, which fulfils the international criteria. On many occasions, the absence of such a cell for international fugitives becomes an issue in foreign courts ...Read More >
Hyderabad, Oct 16 (SocialNews.XYZ) Amid growing rift between two ministers in Telangana, there was high drama at Endowments and Forest Minister Konda Surekha's house in Hyderabad late Wednesday night as her family resisted the arrest of her former Officer on Special Duty (OSD) N. Sumanth over the allegations of misconduct and corruption. A police team had reached the minister's house searching for Sumanth, who was earlier sacked by the government. Surekha's daughter, Sushmita, confronted polic ...Read More >
Gurgaon: Two men, including a wanted criminal, were arrested after a late-night encounter on Bichhor-Indana Road on Tuesday.While Aabid, a resident of Bichhor, is undergoing treatment at Shaheed Hasan Khan Mewati Medical College in Nalhar after sustaining a bullet injury in his right leg, his associate Zahid Husain of Punhana was also arrested following a brief chase. Punhana CIA team of Nuh police intercepted the duo, who were allegedly on their way to smuggle cows. Punhana DSP Jitender Kumar s ...Read More >
Uttar Pradesh Police has intensified its crackdown on criminals under the government's zero-tolerance policy. Over 15,726 encounters in eight years resulted in 256 criminals eliminated and 31,960 arrests. This reflects a strong commitment to law enforcement and public safety, bolstering the state's reputation as fear-free. Uttar Pradesh Police have launched a determined offensive against criminals, leading to a string of arrests and neutralisations in numerous encounters over the past 20 days, ...Read More >
BENGALURU: A day after Biocon chief Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw highlighted Bengaluru's "creaking" infrastructure, Karnataka's deputy CM D K Shivakumar Wednesday accused her of "betrayal" and of tarnishing the very state and country that helped her succeed as an entrepreneur.However, people sprang to her defence, accusing the government of displaying hostility towards those who speak up, and of refusing to accept constructive criticism.On her part, Shaw on Wednesday blamed previous governments' inaction ...Read More >
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