New Delhi: Former Uttar Pradesh Minister Raghuraj Pratap Singh, alias Raja Bhaiya, will be questioned by CBI on Wednesday in connection with the murder of a village head and subsequently a police official. CBI sources said 44-year-old Raja Bhaiya, who is prime accused in the FIR registered by Kunda DSP Zia-ul-Haq's wife Parveen Azar, has been summoned by the agency for questioning in connection with the larger conspiracy related to the murder of Balipur village head Nanhe Yadav.
Last month, CBI had arrested one Bhulle Pal, a security guard with the then State Minister Raja Bhaiya, who allegedly led a mob, enraged by the killing of Yadav, to kill the police officer.
Raja Bhaiya has denied any association with Pal. CBI has also taken into custody Rajeev Singh and Guddu Singh who are considered close to the minister. In the FIR filed on the basis of a complaint by Parveen Azad, it has been alleged that "on the directions of Raja Bhaiya, Nagar Panchayat Chairman Gulshan Yadav, minister's representative Hari Om Srivastava, his driver Rohit Singh and supporter Guddu Singh first assaulted my husband with sticks and rods and later shot him dead."
The allegations have been denied by Raja Bhaiya. CBI has so far arrested 11 persons in connection with the murders of Haq, Nanhe and his brother Suresh who were found dead on March 2 evening at Balipur village. CBI sources claimed Haq, who was posted as Deputy Superintendent of Police at Kunda, had reached
07:46 AM, May 15, 2013
New Delhi: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Wednesday arrested seven people in connection with the Kunda DSP murder. In what is being claimed as a major breakthrough in the case, the CBI arrested murdered Gram Pradhan Nanhe Yadav's brother, nephew and five others. Sources in the CBI said the arrested people were behind the murders of the Gram Pradhan as well as the Deputy SP, Zia-ul-Haq. Sources added...
06:16 PM, Apr 24, 2013
The Uttar Pradesh government is all set to order the transfer of all the policemen, including four Station House Officers or SHOs in Kunda in Pratapgarh district in connection with the triple murders. ...
10:33 AM, Apr 03, 2013
Even as Minister of State for Home Affairs RPN Singh assured the guilty will be punished in the Kunda killings that have rocked Uttar Pradesh and its government, the BSP chief Mayawati accused the SP of trying to save Raja Bhaiya in whose constituency the murders had occurred. ...
05:29 PM, Mar 06, 2013
Sacked Uttarakhand minority panel chief SS Namdhari and his PSO Sachin Tyagi, arrested for their alleged roles in the Ponty Chadha shootout case, were on Friday remanded in judicial custody for six days by a Delhi court. Metropolitan Magistrate Rajinder Singh sent Namdhari and his Personal Security Officer Tyagi to jail till December 13, after the police said it does not need their further custody for interrogation. ...
06:28 PM, Dec 07, 2012
The police custody of sacked Uttarakhand minority panel chief Sukhdev Singh Namdhari, booked on charges of murder in slain liquor baron Ponty Chadha shootout case, was extended today by a Delhi court till December 7. Metropolitan Magistrate Rajinder Singh extended Namdhari's police custody by two more days saying he is required to be interrogated for recovery of the alleged weapon and vehicle used in the crime. ...
06:32 PM, Dec 05, 2012
Delhi police on Tuesday claimed before a court here that sacked Uttarakhand minority commission chairman SS Namdhari's PSO Sachin Tyagi allegedly conspired with him and Ponty Chadha to kill the liquor baron's brother Hardeep. ...
10:14 PM, Dec 04, 2012
The personal security officer of sacked Uttrakhand Minorities Commission Chairperson Sukhdev Singh Namdhari, Sachin Tyagi, will be produced in court on Tuesday in connection with the Ponty-Hardeep murder case. ...
09:06 AM, Dec 04, 2012
In a new twist to the Ponty-Hardeep murders, the police on Sunday claimed in court that Hardeep had felt slighted after his brother Ponty and his aide and key accused in the double murder case, SS Namdhari purchased several properties in Nainital and Bazpur. The police also told court that Namdhari intentionally killed Hardeep after which he handed over the weapon to his PSO, who told another accused to destroy...
05:50 PM, Dec 02, 2012
Sacked Uttarakhand Minorities Commission chairman Sukhdev Singh Namdhari, arrested recently in connection with Ponty Chadha murder case, was on Monday expelled from the BJP. Namdhari has been expelled from the party following his arrest in connection with the Chattarpur farmhouse shootout in which controversial liquor baron Ponty Chadha and his brother Hardeep were killed, state BJP chief Bishan Singh Chufal said. ...
02:45 PM, Nov 26, 2012
New Delhi: Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi is expected to meet the village panchayat heads in Srinagar on Friday. The meet comes in the wake of the murders of two sarpanchs in two weeks last month following which around 150 of their counterparts resigned in protest, demanding greater security. The sarpanch protests have threatened to turn into a major face-off between Rahul and Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah,...
08:40 AM, Oct 05, 2012
New Delhi: On Friday, a Rs 5.25 crore robbery in broad daylight left a security guard in the upmarket Defence Colony area of Delhi, bruised with gunshot injuries. The following day, came the news of a failed robbery attempt at a bank in Inderlok, and finally in the evening, as if to cap it all, another ATM cash van was looted by its own driver, who after drugging the two...
08:14 AM, Sep 30, 2012
Srinagar: The ongoing sarpanch protests in Jammu and Kashmir threatens to turn into a face-off between Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi and Chief Minister Omar Abdullah after the former said on Thursday that the local body leaders must be granted more autonomy. Rahul made the statement at a meeting with a delegation of sarpanches from the valley in Delhi. The sarpanches have demanded gun licenses to protect themselves in the...
11:15 AM, Sep 28, 2012
Kochi: By no stretch of imagination can the killing of political rivals by hiring contract killers be taken lightly, and such instances need to be strongly condemned and deprecated, observed the Kerala High Court on Tuesday. In recent times, the annihilation of political rivals is on the rise. After a well-hatched conspiracy in such cases, people are hired to do away with political opponents. So the courts are called upon...
12:44 PM, Sep 19, 2012
Mumbai: With no leads in the cases of rape and murder of minor girls at Cuffe Parade, local cops have turned the slum pockets in the area into their home base. Undercover police officers attached to the local arms unit have been asked to stay inside hutments in order to mingle with the crowd to dig up information about the killer. The murders had taken place at Cuffe Parade and...
03:35 PM, Aug 30, 2012
London: British-Indian Jasvinder Sanghera has set up a hotline for troubled women and is speaking out against honour killing. When Jasvinder was 14 years old, her mother showed her a photograph of the man she had been promised to marry at the age of eight. Jasvinder says she refused and her parents locked her up in a room. She managed to run away, but as she wrote in her book,...
11:46 AM, Aug 25, 2012
Malappuram: The police have arrested one more person in connection with the Kuni twin murder case. IUML Eranad constituency secretary Parammal Ahmedkutty was arrested by the police here on Wednesday after a long interrogation session. Special Investigation Team member DySP Mohanachandran informed that the accused was aware of the conspiracy behind the murder of Kolakkadan Azad and Kolakkadan Aboobacker. In a controversial speech he made days before the twin murder,...
01:11 PM, Aug 09, 2012
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Veteran CPM leader V S Achuthanadan on Sunday termed the Thodupuzha speech byIdukki district party secretary M M Mani as an awful attempt to brand the CPM as a party of murderers.Coming down heavily on Manis statement, Achuthanandan said at Chembazhanthy here that he could state this categorically as he was the partys state secretary during the period mentioned by Mani.The veteran CPM leader urged people not to believe...
09:36 AM, May 28, 2012
Lucknow: A packet containing a white substance suspected to be sulphas was recovered from the possession of former Chief Medical Officer of Lucknow AK Shukla during frisking in the jail. Shukla, who was arrested by the CBI in connection with the murder case of another CMO VK Arya on Sunday night, was remanded in 14-days judicial custody by a court on Monday. After being handed over by the police, a...
12:03 PM, May 08, 2012
Lucknow: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Monday arrested former Lucknow Chief Medical Officer (CMO) AK Shukla for allegedly conspiring to kill two other Lucknow CMOs in jail. Shukla worked in the UP Family Welfare Department and was arrested for financial irregularities in the Health Department in 2011. Shukla was arrested earlier in connection with a corruption case but was later released on bail. The twin CMO murders In...
08:10 AM, May 07, 2012
