Jalandhar, Dec 18 (IANS) The Punjab police Friday arrested the mother-in-law of World Wide Entertainment (WWE) champion ‘The Great Khali’ and two others on charges of abetting the suicide of her husband.
Police said that Paramjit Kaur, her father Harbans Lal and a tantric, Kulwinder Singh, were arrested from near this city, 150 km from Chandigarh.
They [...]
New Delhi, Dec 18 (IANS) Jharkhand witnessed over 58 percent polling in the staggered five-phase assembly elections, the last of which was held Friday, the Election Commission said here.
‘The overall poll percentage is 58.3 percent. It will go up,’ said Ashok Shukla, the deputy election commissioner, here.
He said the last phase of the polling saw [...]
Ranchi, Dec 18 (IANS) The fifth and final phase of the Jharkhand assembly elections saw a 55 percent turnout Friday, an election commission official said. Voting began on a violent note as two security personnel were killed and two others were injured in separate incidents. Two schools were also blown up by Maoist guerrillas.
‘Two security [...]
Ranchi, Dec 14 (IANS) A police head constable was killed and another injured when Maoist rebels detonated a landmine blast in Jharkhand’s Lohardagga district Monday, police said.
‘Maoist rebels detonated a landmine blast between Banjri and Rosad village which comes under Kisko police station of Lohardagga district,’ officials said.
‘The policemen were travelling on a [...]
Bhopal, Dec 13 (IANS) A policeman was shot dead by three assailants in Madhya Pradesh’s Barwani district Saturday. The three men have been arrested, police said Sunday.
‘A head constable was shot dead at the busy Hospital Chouraha of Anjad tehsil in Barwani district Saturday afternoon. All the three miscreants were nabbed when the van in [...]
Panaji, Dec 5 (IANS) A Goa police head constable has been literally caught with his pants down during duty hours.
Head constable Santosh Naik was suspended after he was found guilty during an enquiry for indulging in oral sex with a call girl while he was on duty in a police control room van in the [...]
New Delhi, Nov 26 (IANS) Two men were arrested Thursday for opening fire at policemen and traders who tried to apprehend them for passing obscene remarks at women in a market in east Delhi Tuesday, police said.
Imran Khan, 25, and Mohamed Imran, 24, were arrested from south Delhi, following a tip-off from a source.
The two [...]
Ranchi, Nov 26 (IANS) Maoist guerrillas Thursday triggered a landmine explosion in Jharkhand, killing a policeman, a day after the first phase of assembly elections. The incident also came in the wake of a blast in a school building, police said.
Jharkhand police spokesperson V.H. Deshmukh said a police team was on routine patrol when the [...]
Ranchi, Nov 26 (IANS) A day after the first phase of assembly elections, Maoist guerrillas triggered a landmine in Khuti district Thursday killing a policeman and injuring four civilians, police said.
Jharkhand police spokesperson V.H. Deshmukh said that a police team was on routine patrol when the blast took place in Jorana village, 70 km from [...]
Chandigarh, Nov 24 (IANS) The 10-day long wedding celebrations of Punjab’s ‘powerful’ politician Bikram Singh Majithia, the brother-in-law of Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal, has been keeping agencies of the Punjab government, including the state police, on its toes.
The wedding celebrations of Majithia draw to a close Wednesday with a grand reception for the [...]
New Delhi, Nov 22 (IANS) Two men, who posed as journalists and extorted money from policemen claiming to have conducted a sting operation on them, have been arrested, Delhi Police Sunday said.
Pushp Kumar Sharma and Pankaj Kumar were arrested last week from Hauz Khas in south Delhi when they were trying to extort money from [...]
Chandigarh, Nov 18 (IANS) The Punjab police chief here Wednesday dismissed from service two policemen who were found guilty of taking a bribe of Rs.550,000 from drug smugglers, officials said.
‘Director General of Police P.S. Gill has dismissed sub-inspector Rajesh Ashtir and head constable Raj Singh from service with immediate effect. They were found guilty of [...]
Srinagar, Nov 1(ANI): A policeman was killed and another wounded when gunmen opened fire on them in Jammu and Kashmir on Sunday.
Head constable Manzoor Ahmad and constable Abdul Kabir were on patrol at a busy street in Srinagar in the afternoon when they were shot at by suspected militants from a close range.
“Two security personnel [...]
Srinagar, Nov 1 (IANS) Two police men were killed by separatist guerrillas in a hit-and-run attack in this Jammu and Kashmir capital Sunday, police said.
A senior police officer told IANS that separatist guerrillas fired at Head Constable Manzoor Ahmad and Constable Abdul Kabir from close range at Qamarwari chowk, 4 km from here.
‘Both the injured [...]
New Delhi, Oct.26 (ANI): The Centre has strongly condemned what it called an unprovoked and heinous attack by the CPI (Maoist) on the public sector Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) personnel in Bacheli, in Chhattisgarh’s Dantewada District on Sunday.
In a statement, the Union Home Ministry described the attack on one sub-Inspector, one head constable and [...]
New Delhi, Oct 26 (ANI): The Government on Monday strongly condemned the CPI (Maoist) attack on four CISF personnel in Bacheli in Chhattisgarh.
In a statement issued by the Home Ministry, the Government condemned the attack saying, “The Government of India strongly condemns this unprovoked and heinous attack by the CPI (Maoist) on a public [...]
New Delhi, Oct 12 (IANS) A 48-year-old Delhi Police head constable allegedly shot himself inside the police station where he was posted, an official said Monday.
Rohtash shot himself in the head with his service revolver inside the Barakhamba police station around 11.10 p.m. Sunday.
The police said he replaced the duty officer at the police station [...]
Ranchi, Sep 23 (IANS) Four policemen were suspended Wednesday for dereliction of duty after seven undertrials, including three Maoist rebels, escaped from a court lock-up they were supposed to guard in Jharkhand.
All the four, including a woman head constable, were on security duty of the lock-up in Khuti district. The suspended cops include Jitendra Ram, [...]
Dantewada, Sep 19 (ANI): Five more bodies of personnel of the elite anti -Naxal force Commando Battalion for Resolute Action (CoBRA) have been recovered from the Dantewada Forests in Chattisgarh.
A major offensive was launched against the Naxals following specific intelligence inputs about them being present in the forest.
According to CoBRA sources, the bodies of Assistant [...]
Raipur, Sep 19 (IANS) Police Saturday recovered the bodies of five policemen of elite Commando Battalion for Resolute Action (Cobra) in jungles where rebels and police battled throughout Friday.
With this, the death toll among securitymen in one of the biggest offensive in the Maoist bastion has gone up to six. Cobra assistant commandant Manoranjan Singh [...]
Kanpur (Uttar Pradesh), Sep. 13 (ANI): A Railway Police Force (RPF) head constable, who threw a 14-year-old boy from a running train near Kurhni in Bihar last week, has been arrested after being identified by the victim.
Shahabuddin, who lost his right leg in the incident, identified head constable Rameshwar Prasad during a test identification (IT) [...]
