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
New Delhi: 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...
02:51 PM, Mar 30, 2013
New Delhi: New Zealand cricketer Jesse Ryder's condition was improving and he was responding to medical staff and his family on Friday as police said they had arrested two men in connection with the alleged assault. A 20-year-old man and 37-year-old had been charged with assault and would appear in court on April 4, New Zealand Police (NZP) said in a statement. The men were related, police said, without providing...
11:27 AM, Mar 29, 2013
New Delhi: While a controversy rages around whether Liaqat Shah is a militant who wanted to surrender or a terrorist who wanted to target Delhi during Holi, the government is all set to form new sops to legalise surrender via Nepal route, according to sources. Sources said the Ministry of Home Affairs will also review the rehabilitation policy for surrendered PoK based militants. Under the current policy there are four...
06:05 PM, Mar 26, 2013
New Delhi: In an incident of road rage, a teenager was shot at allegedly by security guard of a businessman after an argument, police said. The incident took place at Delhi Cantt area last night and the victim has been identified as Vikas (18). He was shot at by Somdev (35), the PSO of a businessman. Somdev was arrested, police said. The boy was shot in his shoulder and was...
02:45 AM, Mar 26, 2013
Sushil Kumar Shinde handed over alleged Hizbul terrorist Liaqat Shah's case to NIA, relenting to J&K government's pressure, which had demanded the case be transferred to NIA for a 'time bound speedy probe'. ...
11:32 PM, Mar 25, 2013
New Delhi: Welcoming Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde's decision to hand over alleged Hizbul terrorist Liaqat Shah's case to National Investigation Agency (NIA), Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah said that time-bound inquiry will help in clearing all the doubts. "I did not want any confrontation between Delhi police and J&K police. I hence requested the Home Minister to hand over this case to the NIA. I believe that...
07:03 PM, Mar 25, 2013
Relenting to the Jammu and Kashmir government's pressure, Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde has handed over Hizbul terrorist Liaqat Shah's case to the National Investigation Agency (NIA). National Conference chief Farooq Abdullah has welcomed the decision and said that the probe will clear everything. ...
04:56 PM, Mar 25, 2013
New Delhi: Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde on Monday handed over Hizbul terrorist Liaqat Shah's case to National Investigation Agency (NIA), relenting to Jammu and Kashmir government's pressure, which had demanded the case be transferred to NIA for a "time bound speedy probe". NIA will now probe the circumstances under which, Liaqat was arrested. Meanwhile, the Delhi Police Commissioner has said there was no Intelligence Bureau tip-off before the arrest...
02:00 PM, Mar 25, 2013
New Delhi: Delhi Police has submitted its report to the Home Ministry on the arrest of the alleged Hizbul terrorist Liyaqat Shah. Police sources said Liyaqat was in Kathmandu to meet a Hizbul man and was in close contact with a Pakistani Embassy official. The Union Home Ministry, meanwhile, has taken a note of the case and sources said it would order a probe examining the two version of the...
05:11 PM, Mar 24, 2013
New Delhi: The Union Home Ministry will order a probe examining the two version of the arrest of alleged Hizbul terrorist Liaqat Shah, sources said on Sunday. While the Delhi Police sources said Liaqat was part of the terror plot to strike Delhi around Holi and arms and explosives were recovered at his behest, the Jammu and Kashmir government sources said Liaqat had surrendered and was returning home with his...
12:34 PM, Mar 24, 2013
New Delhi: Special courts would be set up soon for Muslim youth accused of various offences, including terror-related charges, Minister for Minority Affairs K Rahman Khan said in New Delhi on Saturday. He said that his ministry had written to the home ministry in February 2013 asking "cases against Muslim youth who have been arrested should be reviewed. We had also specified that special courts should be made for them"....
03:00 AM, Mar 24, 2013
Hyderabad: Top Maoist leader Sudershan was arrested on Saturday in Andhra Pradesh's Khammam district bordering Chhattisgarh, police said. Sudershan alias Sriramulu Srinivas, a member of the central committee of the Communist Party of India-Maoist, was arrested near Vyra in Khammam district. A key figure of Andhra-Orissa Border committee of CPI-Maoist, he was carrying Rs.20 lakh reward on his head. Hailing from Andhra Pradesh, Sudershan is a key accused in the...
02:30 AM, Mar 24, 2013
It's Jammu and Kashmir authorities vs the Delhi Police, over the arrest of Liyaqat Shah. ...
10:13 PM, Mar 23, 2013
While the police tries to figure out if arrested Hizbul terrorist Liyaqat Shah hatched a ploy to carry out a bomb blast on holi or not, PDP Chief Membooba Mufti is angry that Kashmiri youth are being used as medals by the government. ...
05:55 PM, Mar 23, 2013
Nearly 1,600 students, caught cheating in Bihar's Class 10 boards, were expelled from the exams and over 100 parents who helped them use unfair means were arrested, an official said on Monday. ...
03:15 AM, Mar 19, 2013
All the policemen who were present when the girl from Tarn Taran, Punjab was beaten up by police officers have been transferred with immediate effect. The Chandigarh Police have been directed to provide immediate security to the girl. ...
03:32 PM, Mar 18, 2013
Zimbabwe police arrested the country's most prominent rights lawyer and four senior officials with the prime minister's party on Sunday, a day after the nation voted in a referendum on a new constitution that calls for more protection against human rights violations. ...
02:15 AM, Mar 18, 2013
The Jammu and Kashmir Police claimed they have cracked the case of the deadly attack in Srinagar that left five paramilitary personnel dead on Wednesday. The breakthrough came after the third arrest of a government employee, Pradeep Singh. ...
09:42 PM, Mar 16, 2013
Five persons were arrested for allegedly kidnapping a 10-year-old boy from an affluent family in Vile Parle east on Friday afternoon and demanding a ransom of Rs one crore from his parents, police said. Vile Parle police said the kidnapping took place at around 2:30 PM outside the victim's residence at M Padma building, Paranjape scheme no 3 in Vile Parle East. ...
01:40 AM, Mar 16, 2013
