Srinagar: The Jammu and Kashmir High Court on Thursday adjourned till May 16 the final hearing in the alleged fake encounter case involving Lt General Bikram Singh, the Army Chief designate. Justice Mansoor Ahmad Mir adjourned the case for final disposal of the petition. A woman from Macchil area of Kupwara district last year filed a writ petition before the High Court, alleging that her son Abdullah Bhat was killed...
04:24 PM, May 10, 2012
Guwahati: Four suspected Maoists were killed and a police constable was critically injured in an encounter between the two sides in a remote village in Assam's Tinsukia district on Wednesday. Acting on a tip-off about the presence of a group of Maoists at Deopani Borgora village, police launched an operation in the area and in the ensuing encounter four Maoists were killed and a police constable was seriously injured. Search...
03:33 PM, May 09, 2012
Latehar (Jharkhand): In a joint anti-Maoist drive the security personnel of Jharkhand and Chhatisgarh are engaged in an encounter with the Maoists on the borders of the two states on Tuesday, police sources said. "The intermittent encounter is still on. Security personnel from Chhatisgarh and Jharkhand s Latehar and Garwah districts are involved in the encounter," DIG (CRPF) BK Sharma said. Latehar Superintendent of Police Kranti Kumar is leading the...
03:23 PM, May 08, 2012
Srinagar: The Supreme Court on Tuesday in its verdict in the Pathribal fake encounter case of Kashmir said that prior permission of the central government is needed to prosecute Army officers. The apex court said that the Army will decide in eight weeks whether the officer accused of fake encounter will be court martialled or face criminal trial. If it is decided that they will be court martialled, then proceedings...
11:06 AM, May 01, 2012
Mau (Uttar Pradesh): One police inspector and one criminal have been killed in a gunfight in Mau in Uttar Pradesh. The encounter started when a group of four criminals fired at the police party, which had cornered them in Chiriyakot in Mau on Wednesday evening. One police constable has also been injured in the encounter. The criminals have taken shelter in a house and are holding the family as hostage....
06:32 PM, Apr 18, 2012
Ahmedabad: A Gujarat High Court judge on Wednesday recused himself form hearing the bail plea of suspended IPS officer Abhay Chudasama who is currently behind bars on the charge of being the key conspirator in the 2005 Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter case. When the matter came up for hearing before Justice MD Shah, he recused himself from the case, saying "not before me". He did not give any reason for...
06:23 PM, Apr 18, 2012
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday issued a notice to the Centre and state governments to frame guidelines to probe fake encounters. The order came after the Gujarat government protested an earlier order by the apex court to probe alleged fake encounters in the state between 2003 and 2007. The Gujarat government said in a petition that all states must be asked to look into fake encounters since these...
01:36 PM, Apr 13, 2012
New Delhi: A policeman in Mathura was injured when a group of men fired at the cops. The incident took place at a restaurant on Thursday evening when the cops stopped the men for misbehaving with the staff. The injured policeman has been operated upon and is stable. Meanwhile, one of the accused has been arrested and search is on for the others. "The gunbattle took place when the police...
07:26 AM, Apr 13, 2012
New Delhi: The BJP on Saturday cited the observations of a Rajasthan High Court judge that the CBI should be shut down to insist that the Congress governments at the Centre and in Rajasthan were "misusing" the agency to target its leader Rajendra Rathore in an encounter case. The BJP has stood firm behind party's Chief Whip in Rajasthan Assembly Rathore, who has been arrested after the CBI named him...
07:59 PM, Apr 07, 2012
Jaipur: The Rajasthan High Court on Friday came down heavily on CBI for giving 'differential' treatment to the accused in Dara Singh fake encounter case in which a DIG and a BJP MLA were among those arrested, saying the agency's objectives have been compromised and it was high time it was 'shut down'. "It appears that accused in the same case are being given differential treatment by CBI. You people...
07:44 AM, Apr 07, 2012
Srinagar: Three militants have been killed in an encounter in the Handwara area of north Kashmir's Kupwara district. The encounter broke out when troops of 21 Rashtriya Rifles assisted by police launched an anti-insurgency operation in the forest area near Zachaldara village in Handwara. The Army launched the counter-insurgency operation following reports of the terrorists hiding in the forests. As the soldiers closed in on the location of terrorists, the...
03:19 PM, Apr 05, 2012
New Delhi: Thirteen people were killed in an encounter between CRPF, police and Naxals in Barwadih in Jharkhand. reports said 10 of those killed were Naxals. Two policemen were injured in the encounter. The gun battle began around 11.30 am and is still on at the spot which falls under Barwadih police station area, the police said. ...
03:01 PM, Apr 05, 2012
Jaipur: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has arrested former Rajasthan minister Rajendra Rathore in the Dara Singh fake encounter case. Rathore is believed to be close to former Rajasthan chief minister Vasundhara Raje. Liquor smuggler Dara Singh was killed in an alleged fake encounter in 2006. ...
12:40 PM, Apr 05, 2012
Lucknow: A CBI court in Ghaziabad on Thursday sentenced 16 policemen to life imprisonment and one to seven years in jail in the fake encounter of alleged terrorist Jaivinder Singh alias Jasana of Amritsar in the jungles of Kashiwala in Bijnore district in 1992. Pronouncing the judgement the court also slapped a fine of Rs 5000 on each of the convicts, Home department sources said in Lucknow. Though the accomplice...
03:02 AM, Mar 30, 2012
New Delhi: A suspect wanted in connection with the 2008 Ahmedabad blast case was killed in an encounter with the Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) in Aurangabad on Sunday. The deceased has been identified as Mohammed Abrar, a resident of Gulmohar Colony in Ahmedabad, police said. Mohammad Abrar's name figured in the chargesheet of the Ahmedabad 2008 blast case and Gujarat Police say he was in touch with Indian Mujahideen operative...
03:02 PM, Mar 26, 2012
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