Ahmedabad: Slamming the state government over the 2004 Ishrat Jahan fake encounter case, Gujarat High Court observed that it was apparently shielding the policemen accused in the case.
The court made this comment after going through the progress report of the investigation in the case carried out by the CBI and which was submitted, in a sealed cover to the court on Thursday.
The bench also questioned the intention of the state government for its objections to spare Verma's services as required by the CBI.
"We fail to understand why the state is opposing the request made by the CBI to spare the services of its IPS officer. Why is that the state government is objecting and obstructing in this? State government should strive to find out whoever the real culprits are and ensure that they get booked at the earliest," the bench observed....
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06:01 PM, May 11, 2013
Ahmedabad: A Special CBI Court on Thursday ordered the issuance of arrest warrant against top Gujarat police officer PP Pande, an accused in the 2004 alleged fake encounter of Mumbai teenager Ishrat Jahan and three others. The 1980-batch IPS officer of Gujarat cadre is currently Additional DGP (Crime) and he was Ahmedabad's Joint Commissioner of Police at the time of the encounter. Judge Gita Gopi, while granting the prayer of...
06:34 PM, May 02, 2013
New Delhi: Former Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) commissioner KS Mehra on Monday lodged a complaint against his ex-wife Vimla Mehra, who is Tihar Prison director general, accusing her of trying to extort money and property from him, police said on Monday. "We have received a complaint and an inquiry is on," said a senior police officer. KS Mehra, a 1978 batch IPS officer, said in his complaint that he...
09:58 AM, Apr 16, 2013
Gujarat IPS officer GL Singhal, who was arrested in the Ishrat Jahan encounter case, has resigned from the police force. He was suspended after being arrested in the case. GL Singhal was the ACP in 2004 during the fake encounter case. Singhal is among the 20 policemen, including DIG Vanzara, named in the case. ...
08:49 AM, Mar 02, 2013
Indian Police Service (officer) and Assistant Superintendent of Police Paras Deshmukh has been injured during an encounter with a gang of criminals in Alwar district of Rajasthan. The police had got an information about the movement of Mewati gang in Alwar. ...
02:43 PM, Mar 01, 2013
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04:52 PM, Feb 21, 2013
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Thursday arrested first Gujarat IPS officer in the Ishrat Jahan encounter case. GL Singhal was the ACP in 2004 during the fake encounter case. Singhal is among the 20 policemen, including DIG Vanzara, named in the case. ...
01:29 PM, Feb 21, 2013
Ahmedabad: Nine accused in the Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter case, who were lodged in a city jail, were on Thursday sent to Mumbai under heavy security for their production before the special court there on November 23. Later, they all will be sent to a jail in Maharashtra, as per the decision of the special CBI court in Mumbai, before which they will be produced. The nine accused, including suspended...
06:57 PM, Nov 22, 2012
New Delhi: Bihar cadre Indian Police Service Officer Ranjit Sinha has been appointed as the new Director of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI). Sinha, who joined the IPS in 1974, was the Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) chief. Sinha will take over from AP Singh, who belonged to the IPS 1974 Jharkhand cadre. Sinha has already worked in the CBI. He was on deputation as DIG, CBI, Patna and also...
04:18 PM, Nov 22, 2012
New Delhi: The Madhya Pradesh Lokayukta police on Saturday raided the residence of a senior IPS officer and found cash and jewellery worth crores. The police reportedly recovered nearly Rs 25 crore worth of cash and jewellery from the Sagar and Bhopal residences of Umesh Gandhi, DIG, Prisons. Lokayukta inspector Naveen Avasthi said, "Around 25 crore worth wealth has been recovered. Various papers of the allotted land has been recovered....
01:33 PM, Nov 03, 2012
Itanagar: IPS officer MS Chauhan, who probed the high-profile PDS scam and mysteriously went missing in Arunachal Pradesh's West Kameng district on October 16, has been traced in New Delhi on Sunday. "Chauhan was traced in New Delhi this morning and the Investigating officer will rush there to investigate," IGP (Crime) Arvind Deep said. He declined to give further details. Chauhan, SP of the Special Investigation Cell, who was appointed...
03:10 PM, Oct 21, 2012
Itanagar: The Arunachal Pradesh government on Friday handed over the case of missing IPS officer MS Chauhan to a Special Investigation Team (SIT) of the state police, official sources said. Chauhan, who is the SP of the Special Investigation Cell of the state police, went missing mysteriously from Tippi on Tuesday when he was going to Tawang from Itanagar with inspector Mohan Kaye and constable Vikram Singh. He had handed...
07:16 PM, Oct 19, 2012
Chandigarh: A top police officer in Chandigarh caught taking a bribe by the Central Bureau of Investigation has been arrested. IPS officer Desh Raj Singh, was caught by the CBI allegedly accepting a bribe of Rs 1 lakh. Singh who is the Superintendent of Police (City), reportedly demanded Rs 5 lakh from a uniformed serving station house officer, Anokh Singh, but according to the CBI, he settled for 1 lakh....
09:10 AM, Oct 19, 2012
Itanagar: An IPS officer has gone missing from Tippi in West Kameng district of Arunachal Pradesh when he was on his way to Tawang from Itanagar. Superintendent of Police of the Special Investigation Cell in the state police, MS Chauhan, went missing from Tippi on Tuesday at around 2.30 pm when he, along with two of his subordinate staff, was going to Tawang. Chauhan asked inspector Mohan Kaye and constable...
12:33 PM, Oct 17, 2012
Surat: A video clipping showing an IPS officer thrashing a thief in the Varaccha area of Surat surfaced on Saturday. The incident happened on Friday evening and was recorded by a bystander on his mobile phone. The video, aired by few TV channels, showed Deputy Commissioner of Police ND Solanki beating up a man with a stick as four other policemen held him. The man was caught by the police...
10:00 PM, Oct 06, 2012
Ahmedabad: The Gujarat government on Monday revoked the suspension of IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt, as it accepted the decision of the central review committee which reports to the Union Home Ministry. The IPS officer had been suspended in August 2011 for not turning up to work in the wake of his allegations against Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi in connection with the 2002 riots. Bhatt had claimed that he was...
09:40 PM, Oct 01, 2012
Hyderabad: In a major embarrassment to the state government, the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has revoked the suspension of senior IPS officer Umesh Kumar with immediate effect. In the order issued Thursday, the ministry said Umesh Kumars suspension on the grounds of taking unauthorised leave was not justified and untenable. This is perhaps the first instance of MHA overruling the state governments decision to suspend an IPS officer. The...
01:00 PM, Aug 31, 2012
New Delhi: Holding a separate examination for recruitment of IPS officers where their "mental makeup" and "inclination for policing" can be checked has been mooted by a Parliamentary Committee. Besides, the panel has also recommended to the government making changes in the training modules for the IPS officers to tackle modern day challenges including terrorism and Naxalism. The Committee, while taking stock of the existing procedure of recruitment of IPS...
09:02 PM, Aug 30, 2012
Lucknow: In a major administrative reshuffle, the Uttar Pradesh government on Sunday transferred 10 IAS officers and 18 IPS officers, including district magistrates and police chiefs. While Principal Secretary, Panchyati Raj, BM Meena has been sent to Stamp and registration department in the same capacity, Principal Secretary Rural Engineering Department Manoj Kumar been sent to Panchyati Raj department, they said. Divisional Commissioner, Aligarh, Anil Garg has been sent to Rural...
09:21 PM, Jul 29, 2012
New Delhi: A special CBI court is expected to hear the case of murdered Madhya Pradesh IPS officer Narendra Kumar Singh on Friday. Narendra Kumar was allegedly killed off for taking on the mining mafia in the state. The 32-year-old was mowed down under a tractor in Morena district on March 8 this year. The CBI later named Manoj Gurjar, an alleged mining mafia member, as the main accused in...
08:28 AM, Jul 27, 2012
