Three motorcycle-borne robbers Thursday snatched a bag containing Rs.8 lakh in cash from employees of a garment factory after throwing chilli powder in their eyes, police said.
The police said three employees of Richa Garments in Kirti Nagar in west Delhi were taking the money from one office to the other on foot around 2.15 [...]
Mumbai, Jan 3 (ANI): The Maharashtra Government has cleared suspension of five police officers for allegedly dancing in a party organized for a gangster.
Mumbai Police Commissioner D. Sivanandan had recommended suspension of officersw including Assistant Commissioner of Police Prakash Wani and Deputy Commissioner of Police V.N Salve.
The recommendations were made in his report [...]
Mumbai, Dec 25 (ANI): Mumbai Police watches out for rave parties ahead of New Year celebrations.
The anti-narcotics branch is keeping tab on invitations over media and the Internet.
“We have kept a special watch on the invitations given via net. Wherever such invitations come we will conduct a raid there,” said Sunil Pawaskar, Deputy Commissioner of [...]
Bangalore, Dec 20 (IANS) A group of armed thugs abducted 12 bar girls late Saturday night when they were returning home from work, but police rescued the traumatised girls after a chase that ended early Sunday, officials said.
Two of the six thugs were injured when police opened fire after being attacked with clubs and [...]
Mumbai, Dec 18 (ANI): Mohd Ajmal Amir Kasab, the lone surviving Pakistani gunman, whose statement was to be recorded today in the 26/11 special trial Court in Mumbai, has withdrawn from all the confessions made by him earlier.
The prosecution had closed the case on Wednesday, after hearing around six hundred witnesses for a period of [...]
Mumbai, Dec 18 (ANI): The spotlight is back on the lone surviving Pakistani gunman Mohd Ajmal Amir Kasab, whose statement is to be recorded today in the 26/11 special trial Court in Mumbai. Earlier on Wednesday, the prosecution had closed the case, after hearing around six hundred witnesses for a period of over seven months. [...]
Bhubaneswar, Dec 17 (IANS) At least two people were injured when a half demolished building collapsed here Thursday, police said.
The local civic authorities had partially demolished the structure Wednesday as it was deemed to be old and not safe. The remaining part was supposed to be demolished Thursday.
However, the building collapsed as some people were [...]
New Delhi, Nov 23 (IANS) A 27-year-old man has been arrested along with his accomplice for allegedly kidnapping a seven-year-old boy from east Delhi and demanding a ransom of Rs.250,000, police said Monday. The boy has also been rescued unharmed.
Shivpal Yadav and Sushil Yadav, 42, were arrested for abducting the boy from Jhilmil area Nov [...]
Thiruvananthapuram, Nov 23 (IANS) Four men were held here Monday for illegally transferring Rs.60 lakh from the insurance account of an NRI into a fictitious bank account which they had opened in his name, police said.
Assistant Commissioner of Police B. Krishna Kumar told IANS that a Dubai-based Keralite Vincent Justine had an insurance account with [...]
New Delhi, Nov 21 (IANS) Two vegetable traders were shot by bike-borne assailants in northwest Delhi Saturday. One of them died, triggering a protest by about 150 traders.
The two traders identified as Ravinder and Bakre Alam of the Azadpur Mandi were on their way to work on a scooter Saturday and were carrying a bag [...]
New Delhi, Nov 20 (IANS) Delhi Police Friday arrested a security guard for stealing laptops from a warehouse where he worked, a police official said Friday.
Neeraj Kumar Verma was arrested from New Delhi district and nine stolen laptops were recovered from his possession.
‘We received information that one person, who has stolen laptops, will come to [...]
Mumbai, Nov 18 (ANI):Kavita Karkare, the wife of former Maharashtra Anti Terror Squad (ATS) chief Hemant Karkare on Wednesday questioned the state government on why her husband and two other senior officials who were killed on 26/1, did [...]
New Delhi, Nov 17 (IANS) Four people were arrested in the national capital with counterfeit currency with the face value of Rs.1 million, police said Tuesday.
Working on a specific information, police arrested the men from Safdarjung Enclave in south Delhi Monday, a police officer said.
‘The gang was smuggling the counterfeit currency from Bangladesh and circulating [...]
Gurgaon, Nov 17 (IANS) An official of automobile giant Maruti Udyog Ltd has been literally taken for a ride in the name of assured ‘friendship’ by a conman and his accomplice in this Haryana city adjoining national capital New Delhi.
The Haryana police have arrested a Delhi-based youth, Rajinder, for conning the Maruti executive in the [...]
New Delhi, Nov 11 (IANS) A street vendor allegedly killed a housewife, with whom he had an affair, for talking to other men, the police said Wednesday.
Dhirender Singh, a resident of Uttar Pradesh, was arrested Tuesday for the murder of Samikasha Verma at her Tagore Garden home in west Delhi last week.
Police seized [...]
Ahmedabad, Nov 6 (ANI): Two Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) activists arrested by Madhya Pradesh Anti Terrorist Squad (ATS) were brought to Ahmedabad on Thursday for their alleged links in the bomb blasts of last year.
The arrested SIMI activists identified as Mohammad Shafiq and Mohammad Yunus are accused in the Ahmedabad serial [...]
New Delhi, Oct 30 (IANS) A 62-year-old woman was Friday evening found allegedly murdered in her Delhi home, police said.
The woman, identified as Virender Kaur, was found strangulated in her third-floor house in East Patel Nagar when her husband Amarjeet Singh returned home.
‘The entry into the house seems to be friendly and nothing appears to [...]
New Delhi, Oct 29 (IANS) Munna Bajrangi, a dreaded gangster carrying a reward of Rs.100,000 for his arrest and suspected to be behind the sensational murder of Delhi Police Assistant Commissioner of Police Rajbir Singh last year, was Thursday nabbed in Mumbai, an official said here.
Bajrangi, who is also accused of gunning down Bharatiya Janata [...]
New Delhi, Oct 27 (IANS) A married woman was raped and her husband murdered as the couple, who were from the same caste, married despite the opposition of her family members and other villagers, police said Tuesday. Four men have been arrested for the crime.
Daya Singh, 50, Sandeep, 23, Inderjeet Singh, 19, and Krishan, 19, [...]
New Delhi, Oct 26 (IANS) A guard posted at Minister of State for Home Ajay Maken’s family house in the capital’s Rajouri Garden area was assaulted by three masked men, who then discussed ways to rob an ATM across the road, according to a complaint by Maken’s brother. Police Monday said they are investigating the [...]
New Delhi, Oct 25 (IANS) A minor tiff over drinks led a factory worker to throw acid on two of his colleagues, who died on their way to the hospital, police said Sunday.
The incident occurred in a tar making factory of Bawana area in west Delhi when Sanjay opened a can filled with acid and [...]
New Delhi, Oct 23 (IANS) A 38-year-old man wanted in at least 20 cases of murder, extortion and robberies has been arrested here, police said Friday.
Anoop Kumar, who hails from Ghaziabad in Uttar Pradesh, was arrested Thursday near GTB Hospital in Shahdara here. The police said two pistols and four cartridges were recovered from him.
Deputy [...]
Bangalore, Oct 17 (IANS) An under-22 cricketer from Jammu and Kashmir was arrested here Saturday after traces of explosives were found in his bag but he was freed later. The incident sparked protests from the Jammu and Kashmir cricket officials who accused the Karnataka Police of harassment.
Police said Pervez Rasool, a graduate student from Anantnag, [...]
New Delhi, Oct 14 (IANS) Four men, wearing traffic police uniforms, robbed a businessman of Rs.22 lakh (Rs.2.2 million) in the national capital Wednesday, police said.
‘The incident took place around 11.45 a.m. in Keshavpuram area. The victim, Akshay Aggarwal, was going in his car to a bank to deposit Rs.2.2 million in cash when two [...]
Kochi, Oct 13(ANI): To counter any untoward act of terrorism, the armed forces on Tuesday conducted a mock security and emergency drill in Kochi.
The Indian Army, Coast Guard, Navy and state police participated in the joint exercise, which was aimed [...]
Srinagar, Oct 9 (ANI): Residents of Jammu’s Rammunshibagh area on Friday thrashed an assistant commissioner of police, who was held responsible for the death of Rohit Khajuria last week.
Assistant Commissioner of Jammu, Rohit Khajuria, was thrashed when he went along with the Deputy Commissioner to meet Rajnish’s [...]
New Delhi, Oct 8 (IANS) A 26-year-old man has been arrested for making hoax calls to the police control room claiming that bombs have been planted in different places in the national capital.
Ravinder Kumar Tiwari was arrested Wednesday from Wazirabad and two mobile phones and a motorbike were seized from him, police said Thursday.
Police [...]
New Delhi, Oct 7 (IANS) Four youngsters have been arrested here for raping a 20-year-old computer teacher in west Delhi, police said Wednesday.
Niranjan, 20, Dilip, 23, Rama, 20, and his brother Harish, 22, were arrested for kidnapping and raping the woman late Monday when she was returning home with her friend Satyaprakash, police said.
They intercepted [...]
New Delhi, Oct 2 (IANS) A group of 15-20 Tamils stormed the Sri Lankan high commission in the high-security diplomatic area in the national capital Friday afternoon, the police said.
According to police, they scaled the low gates of the embassy in Chanakyapuri and broke some flower pots in the premises. The incident occurred at around [...]
Gurgaon (Harayna), Sept 26 (ANI): Police in Gurgaon claimed to have killed two criminals during an encounter when they took eight members of a family as hostages.
The criminals had barged into the house of Anup Chaturvedi, who is a manager of the Maruti Udyog Limited and took members of the family as hostages late [...]
