New Delhi: The Delhi Police is investigating whether a second person was involved in the rape of a five-year-old girl, who is undergoing treatment in AIIMS. However, Delhi Police spokesperson Rajan Bhagat issued a statement denying "rumours" of arresting a second accused or looking for him. A senior police official said they will investigate whether any other person is involved in the incident either in raping the girl or helping...
11:59 AM, Apr 21, 2013
The five-year-old Delhi rape survivor is still in hospital but stable and alert as the capital took to the streets once again to protest against rising rape cases with a wave of revulsion anger across the nation as well. ...
11:12 AM, Apr 21, 2013
New Delhi: Condemning the rape of a 5-year-old girl in Delhi, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said safety, security and status of women in the country is a matter of concern. While addressing the Civil Services Day function in the national capital, Manmohan said the gruesome assault on a little child reminds us of the need to work collectively to root out this sort of depravity from our society. All of...
10:56 AM, Apr 21, 2013
New Delhi: 6:21 pm: Rapid Action Force deployed at India Gate, Prime Minsiter Manmohan Singh's official residence 7, Race Course Road and at police headquarters. Jawaharlal Nehru University Students Union (JNUSU) members block ITO crossing near police headquarters even as around 100 protesters gather at India Gate and hold peaceful protests. 5:45 pm: Police drag away demonstrators from outside PM's residence at 7, Race Course Road. 5:30 pm: AAP workers...
09:49 AM, Apr 21, 2013
Former top cop and social activist Kiran Bedi said that the police officials need to be trained better. ...
03:34 PM, Apr 20, 2013
Watertown: Lifting days of anxiety for a city and a nation on edge, police captured the surviving Boston Marathon bombing suspect, found bloodied in a backyard boat on Friday night less than 24 hours after a wild car chase and gunbattle that left his older brother dead and Boston and its suburbs sealed in an extraordinary dragnet. "We got him," Boston Mayor Tom Menino tweeted. A cheer erupted from a...
06:42 AM, Apr 20, 2013
New Delhi: Three Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) officials were arrested for molesting their colleague's wife in Delhi, police said on Friday. The incident was reported from south Delhi's Dwarka Sector 23 area on Thursday morning. Sujal Haldar, Rahul Kumar Mishra and Sanjay Kumar were arrested on Thursday evening following the 28-year-old victim's statement. "All the accused belong to West Bengal and are deputed with the Special Protection Group (SPG),"...
05:15 AM, Apr 20, 2013
Muzaffarpur: A 25-year-old youth allegedly involved in the rape of the five-year-old girl in the national capital was arrested in Muzaffarpur on Saturday morning, police said. Manoj Kumar was apprehended from Chiknouta, his in-law's village, at around 2.00 am from Muzaffarpur in Bihar, about 50 kms from Patna. The youth was arrested by a team from Delhi with the help of local police. The accused, who has come here by...
04:45 AM, Apr 20, 2013
Islamabad: Hours after his arrest in a case related to the imposition of emergency rule in 2007, former President Pervez Musharraf was moved from his farmhouse to the police headquarters in Islamabad to fulfil the conditions of his transit remand. Musharraf, 69, was moved from the fortified farmhouse to the Police Lines or headquarters in Sector F-11 on Friday amidst tight security shortly after 2 pm. Officials said the move...
06:33 PM, Apr 19, 2013
Islamabad: A police team on Friday visited former President Pervez Musharraf's farmhouse, declared a "sub-jail" by authorities, and questioned him about the detention of more than 60 judges during the emergency of 2007. The five-member police team led by SP Sardar Sadaqat Ali Khan visited Musharraf's farmhouse at Chak Shahzad on the outskirts of Islamabad at 11 am. The team recorded Musharraf's statement and his response to charges levelled against...
03:50 PM, Apr 19, 2013
Islamabad: Former Pakistan president Pervez Musharraf has been arrested from his farmhouse at Chak Shahzad and he has been presented before a judicial magistrate. According to Pakistan news channel GEO News, Musharraf has left the court complex and is waiting for court orders to be pronounced. There is a heavy deployment of police and Pakistan Rangers outside Musharraf's farmhouse. The court reportedly asked the police to explain why Musharraf was...
08:57 AM, Apr 19, 2013
Islamabad: Former Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf has been put under house arrest after a court cancelled his bail order on Thursday. The Islamabad High Court had ordered the arrest of the former army chief in a case over the imposition of emergency rule in 2007. But in a dramatic escape, Musharraf's security personnel whisked him away from the court complex before the police could take him into custody. Earlier this...
08:16 AM, Apr 19, 2013
Pervez Musharraf has fled the court premises after the court ordered his arrest. This comes after his nomination papers to stand for the coming elections were rejected by the country's Election Commission. Is all of this politically motivated? Or is there a genuine case against him? Pakistani political analyst Ayesha Siddiqa joined IBNLive readers for an interaction on the issue. Q. Given the type of rule of law in Pakistan...
05:39 PM, Apr 18, 2013
Oxford: A Mississippi man was arrested on Wednesday, accused of sending letters to President Barack Obama and a senator that tested positive for the poisonous ricin and set the nation's capital on edge a day after the Boston Marathon bombings. FBI Special Agent in Charge Daniel McMullen said the man was arrested on Wednesday. His name wasn't immediately released publicly. Authorities still waited for definitive tests on the letters to...
06:02 AM, Apr 18, 2013
Jaipur: Jaipur Police on Tuesday arrested the driver of the truck which hit a motorcycle in a tunnel in Jaipur and killed a mother and her infant daughter. The accident displayed public apathy when a CCTV footage showed the victim's injured husband and son crying for help for around 40 minutes but were ignored by passerbys. The truck driver identified as Heeralal was arrested from Madhya Pradesh. Additional Superintendent of...
09:10 AM, Apr 17, 2013
Kanpur: At least 16 persons, including a teenage boy, have been arrested, for allegedly making crank calls to police control room meant for emergency response for locals. According to SSP Yashashvi Yadav, control room was receiving various fraud calls from quite some time from pranksters, who were giving false information about accidents and fire incidents and some even demanded that officials sing a song for them. "Following these repeated calls...
03:45 AM, Apr 15, 2013
Chennai: In a joint operation, Tamil Nadu and West Bengal Police arrested suspected Maoist Shyam Charan Tudu, wanted in the 2010 attack on a CRPF camp in West Bengal's Midnapore, from Coimbatore, police said on Sunday. "He was arrested at his residence around midnight on Saturday. The West Bengal Police, which had a tip off, sought our cooperation in the operation," Coimbatore Police Commissioner AK Viswanathan told IANS over phone...
06:00 AM, Apr 08, 2013
Arrest warrants were issued on Monday for Pakistan's former commerce minister Makhdoom Amin Fahim and six others accused in a multi-billion-rupee insurance scam, a media report said. ...
06:25 AM, Apr 02, 2013
On the eve of a Balasore court taking up bail petition of former Odisha Law Minister Raghunath Mohanty and his wife for consideration, their daughter-in-law on Monday demanded the arrest of the two other accused in the dowry torture case slapped by her. Mohanty and his wife Pritilata, arrested from Howrah district of West Bengal on Saturday and produced in the court at Balasore, were sent to jail till Tuesday....
02:45 AM, Apr 02, 2013
Suspected Hizbul Mujahideen terrorist Liaqat Shah was on Saturday sent to judicial custody till April 12 by a Delhi court. A controversy broke over Shah's arrest by Delhi Police, which claimed that he was a Hizbul Mujahideen terrorist who had come to the national capital to plan a suicide attack. However, the charges were contested by the Jammu and Kashmir Police saying that he was returning to the Valley for...
02:51 PM, Mar 30, 2013
