New Delhi: Delhi Police seem to have more proof to nail Ajit Chandila, the Rajasthan Royals player who was arrested recently with his two other team-mates in IPL spot-fixing case, as he was contacted by a Patiala-based bookie Deepak Kumar.
Sources told CNN-IBN that Kumar contacted Chandila on April 4 in Chandigarh to spot-fix Rajasthan Royals' May 17th match in Hyderabad. Chandila agreed to spot-fix the match and took an advance of Rs 15 lakh but was arrested before the match.
Delhi Police Special Cell arrested Sreesanth and two other cricketers - Ankeet Chavan and Chandila - on charges of spot-fixing on May 16. Several arrests have been made subsequently by both Delhi and Mumbai Police in connection with the case.
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05:28 PM, May 22, 2013
Bhubaneswar: Odisha government on Saturday decided to set up a special cell at the Home Department to keep a tab on illegal transportation of minerals within the state and outside besides intensifying physical verification of different working mines. The decision was taken at a meeting of the State Level Task Force on Mines presided over by Chief Secretary BK Patnaik. "Besides home secretary, secretary of steel and mines and director...
01:15 AM, May 05, 2013
Chennai: Tamil actor Dhanush has decided to speak in Hindi Tuesday because the trailer of his debut Hindi movie 'Raanjhnaa' is set to release online midnight tonight. "And it's a big day. 'Raanjhnaa' trailer releases tonight at 12... Aaj mein Hindi mein baat karunga (Today (Tuesday), I will speak in Hindi)," posted Dhanush on his Twitter page. The actor learned Hindi language to work in the romantic drama. He is...
03:56 PM, Apr 23, 2013
New Delhi: BSP leader Deepak Bhardwaj's younger son Nitesh and a lawyer, arrested in connection with his murder, were sent to 14-day judicial custody by a Delhi court on Friday. Metropolitan Magistrate Sheetal Choudhary dismissed the plea of Delhi Police seeking extension of police custody of Nitesh and advocate Baljeet Singh Sehrawat by four days, and sent the duo to judicial custody till May 2. Nitesh and Sehrawat were produced...
07:39 PM, Apr 19, 2013
New Delhi: Four persons, including the two alleged shooters, accused in real estate tycoon Deepak Bhardwaj's murder case, were on Friday remanded to three days police custody by a Delhi court after police said it needs their custodial interrogation to unearth the conspiracy. The two alleged shooters Purushottam Rana and Sunil Mann and Amit, the driver of the car in which the shooters had gone to the farm house of...
04:57 PM, Apr 12, 2013
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11:24 PM, Apr 09, 2013
The Delhi Police on Tuesday claimed to have cracked the case, arresting the BSP leader's younger son and family lawyer for the murder. ...
09:25 PM, Apr 09, 2013
New Delhi: The Delhi Police on Tuesday said that the son of murdered BSP leader Deepak Bhardwaj had admitted that he was dissatisfied with his father's business deals and had hatched a conspiracy with his family lawyer Baljeet Singh Sehrawat and self-styled godman Swami Prathibhanand to kill him. According to the police, the deal struck between Nitish Bhardwaj and the lawyer was for Rs 5 crore, out of which Rs...
04:41 PM, Apr 09, 2013
New Delhi: In a possible breakthrough in the murder of Bahujan Samaj party leader and real estate tycoon Deepak Bhardwaj, the police have arrested his son Nitesh and two others for conspiracy of murder. Deepak Bhardwaj's wife and son were among those being questioned over the past 10 days over his murder and the police had not ruled out a family dispute in the case. The two others arrested are...
01:19 PM, Apr 09, 2013
New Delhi: Continuing with its investigation in the murder case of Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) leader Deepak Bhardwaj, the Delhi Police has claimed that Rs 6 crore was paid to eliminate him. Police sources say that self-styled godman Pratibhanand is merely a pawn in the entire game and the entire conspiracy was hatched by someone else. Police officials suspect that the entire plan was hatched by people who were very...
11:55 AM, Apr 09, 2013
New Delhi: Spiritual leader Swami Pratibhanand, a suspect in the murder of BSP leader and realtor Deepak Bhardwaj in Delhi, is changing hideouts to avoid arrest, police on Monday said, adding that plots to kill the politician were also made in January and March 2013. A Delhi Police officer said that Pratibhanand, 48, has changed his hideouts in at least seven cities of separate states since March 26, 2013 murder...
05:28 AM, Apr 09, 2013
Thane: Arrested Thane Municipal Corporation Deputy Municipal Commissioner Deepak Chavan's counsel told a special court hearing the police remand application on Monday, that his appointment was not for carrying out demolition work at all. The statement by his counsel Rajan Salunke stunned those present in the chamber of special judge KR Warrier, who remanded all the nine arrested in connection with the recent building crash to police custody upto April...
09:24 PM, Apr 08, 2013
New Delhi: Investigations into the killing of Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) leader Deepak Bhardwaj has revealed that one of the absconding accused and self-styled godman Pratibhanand, who is suspected to have given the murder contract to the shooters, has been changing his appearance and getup to escape and hide from Delhi Police. According to sources, Pratibhanand is also moving from one place to another and changing his mobile number frequently...
01:43 PM, Apr 08, 2013
New Delhi: Continuing with its investigation in the murder case of slain Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) leader Deepak Bhardwaj, the Delhi Police on Sunday restricted his family from leaving Delhi without its permission. The police had earlier questioned Bhardwaj's wife Ramesh Kumari, their sons and his staff in connection with the case. Police suspect a land dispute could be the reason behind the murder of the BSP leader, who was...
04:37 PM, Apr 07, 2013
New Delhi: Delhi Police on Saturday released photographs of a spiritual guru, who is suspected to have given money to shooters, to kill local BSP leader Deepak Bhardwaj. The photographs of Machendranath alias Pratibhanand were released late in the evening. Police said he hails from Beed in Maharashtra and is 48 years old. Purushottam Rana and Sunil Mann, the alleged shooters, had told police that the spiritual guru had given...
03:10 AM, Apr 07, 2013
Indore: A yoga teacher has been detained by Delhi Crime Branch in connection with the murder of BSP leader Deepak Bhardwaj, officials said in Indore. Avinash Shastri, said to be the yoga trainer of a "spiritual guru," suspected to be behind Bhardwaj's murder allegedly over a land dispute, was detained from Umanand Parmarthic Nyas Ashram near the aerodrome in Indore on Thursday night, police said. Shastri was taken into custody...
03:21 PM, Apr 05, 2013
New Delhi: A land dispute is suspected to be behind the murder of BSP leader and business tycoon Deepak Bhardwaj in New Delhi March 26, 2013, a police source said on Wednesday. The realtor might have been killed in connection with a 30 acre piece of land in Haryana's Bahadurgarh area, the source said. Investigators have launched a hunt for spiritual leader Swami Pratimanand with whom Bhardwaj is believed to...
04:30 AM, Apr 04, 2013
Delhi Police have launched a manhunt in Haryana and Uttarakhand for a "spiritual guru" who is suspected to be behind the murder of local BSP leader Deepak Bhardwaj allegedly over a land dispute. Investigators are also on the look out for another associate, believed to be a commercial pilot, of the spiritual guru who is said to have approached alleged shooters -- Purushottam Rana and Sunil Mann -- with the...
11:08 PM, Apr 03, 2013
The police may have identified the mastermind of the fatal shooting of Bahujan Samaj Party leader and real estate tycoon Deepak Bhardwaj in his Delhi farmhouse. Sources have told CNN-IBN that the interrogation of the suspects has led to the name of a self-styled godman or Swami. ...
09:23 AM, Apr 03, 2013
Investigators have identified the "spiritual guru" who is suspected to have hired shooters for Rs 50 lakh to Rs one crore to kill local BSP leader Deepak Bhardwaj. Sources said they have zeroed in on the spiritual guru following investigations into the details provided by the two alleged sharpshooters Sunil Mann and Purushottam Rana. ...
04:47 AM, Apr 03, 2013
