New Delhi: An accused in several cases of murder, extortion and land grabbing has been arrested in Delhi, police said on Saturday. Harsimran Singh, 25, was arrested from north Delhi's Shalimar Bagh area on the intervening night of May 30-31 after police received a tip-off about him.
According to police, Singh had attacked the former president of a Resident Welfare Association (RWA) in Shalimar Bagh.
"He (Singh) would extort money from street vendors in the area after his mother became the RWA president. When the former president threatened to file a police complaint, he attacked him with an intention to kill," a police official said.
The assault took place Jan 23, 2013, following which Singh along with family members fled from the area....
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05:06 AM, Jun 02, 2013
Sagarika Ghose: Hi there. Yes the 'Kejri bomb' explodes again. More revelations today from Arvind Kejriwal and India Against Corruption, this time targeting BJP president Nitin Gadkari. Kejriwal targets BJP president Nitin Gadkari, alleges 100 acres of land acquired for building a dam in Maharashtra was given to him. Irrigation water in Vidarbha was diverted to Gadkari's power and sugar factories. Tonight we are asking, is targeting personalities the way...
06:47 PM, Oct 18, 2012
Chennai: The Tiruvallur district Anti-Land Grab Cell arrested DMDK MLA Arun Subramaniam on charges of blocking the pathway leading toward an Irula tribal settlement, during the wee hours of Wednesday. Police sources said the action was necessitated following a petition submitted by Irula Tribal Welfare Association president Prabhu to Tiruvallur Collector Ashish Chatterjee regarding the obstruction of the pathway. It said that a compound wall had been constructed, which was...
01:06 PM, Jul 19, 2012
Chennai: Adding to the woes of Sasikala and her family, the Chennai Police on Saturday arrested her husband, Natarajan in connection with a land grabbing case. The case was registered against him in Thanjavur. Sasikala was a close confidante of Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa for several years. However, in December 2011, she expelled her and her relatives from the AIADMK, which political observers say, was a result of unprecedented...
08:18 PM, Feb 18, 2012
Surat: Another whistleblower was targeted for exposing a land grabbing case on Sunday. The Surat police found an RTI activist Santosh Makrande Tiwari badly injured and abandoned on the national highway. Tiwari, 42, claims he was kidnapped by the land grabbers he sought information on. "Vijay and Dilawar are land grabbers and are known to be close to former Chief Minister Ashok Chavan. The people who kidnapped me had phoned...
04:11 PM, Oct 16, 2011
Chennai: The Madras High Court has granted bail to DMK MLA J Anbazhagan, who apprehended arrest in connection with a complaint against him for alleged land grabbing. Granting bail for a three-week period, Justice T Sudanthiram on Thursday directed Anbazhagan, who represents Chepauk assembly segment in the city, to furnish a personal bond and appear before the police if required. The complaint against the legislator was lodged by one Dharmaraj....
10:21 PM, Aug 26, 2011
Chennai: Lottery kingpin Santiago Martin and his brother-in-law Benjamin have been arrested by the Salem city police in Tamil Nadu on charges of land grabbing. The Madras High Court had earlier ordered action against him in the case but the previous DMK government sat on the order. Martin is known to be close to Karunanidhi. The full extent of the land grabbing allegations against Alagiri's family was revealed by CNN-IBN...
01:18 PM, Aug 13, 2011
Chennai: Reiterating that his partymen were being jailed under false land grab cases, DMK chief M Karunanidhi on Thursday expressed fears that the issue could be used as a tool against political parties and could prove handy for anti-social elements. "By saying so, one does not mean that complaints regarding land grab should be ignored. Proper scrutiny should be done and a particular political party should not be targeted. The...
06:33 PM, Aug 11, 2011
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10:53 PM, Aug 10, 2011
Chennai: Documentary evidence has revealed the full extent of the land grabbing allegations against Union Minister and Karunanidhi's son MK Alagiri's family. CNN-IBN has accessed documents to show how Alagiri's wife bought temple land worth over Rs 20 crore for just Rs 85 lakh from a man facing over 50 criminal cases. Kanthi Alagiri bought land from lottery king Santiago Martin after MK Alagiri became Union Minister. Moreover, the land...
08:59 PM, Aug 10, 2011
Chennai: Coming down heavily on the ruling AIADMK in Tamil Nadu for taking action against DMK workers on the basis of 'false complaints' of land grabbing, DMK Chief M Karunanidhi on Monday said judiciary should take firm action against those who lodged such complaints. Writing in the party organ 'Murasoli', he said when he was the Chief Minister, the then DMK government brought a law to punish those who indulged...
05:44 PM, Aug 08, 2011
Chennai: Already at a cross roads after the electoral rout and the 2G scam taint, the DMK is feeling the heat of the AIADMK Government's crackdown on land grabbing with an increasing number of its functionaries and senior leaders coming under the police net. The Jayalalithaa government's action has raised the hackles of the DMK, provoking it to cry foul and call for a state-wide protest on Monday. Several former...
01:20 PM, Jul 31, 2011
Salem: Former Tamil Nadu Minister and senior DMK leader Veerapandi S Arumugam was on Saturday arrested by the city police in connection with a fresh land grabbing case. Arumugam, granted conditional anticipatory bail by the Madras High Court in two land grabbing cases, was arrested by the City Crime Branch (CCB) police when he appeared before it on Saturday morning as per the bail conditions, police said. A strongman of...
10:18 AM, Jul 30, 2011
New Delhi: The Supreme Court is expected to pronounce its verdict on Sikkim High Court Chief Justice PD Dinakaran's petition challenging impeachment proceedings against him on Tuesday. The charges against the judge include land grabbing, accumulation of unaccounted assets and passing judicial orders for extraneous considerations. Dinakaran had accused the probing panel of a bias in their investigations and also, of exceeding their jurisdiction. Following this, the apex court had...
07:23 AM, Jul 05, 2011
New Delhi: It's a land grab with International dimensions. Thousands of villagers in seven border districts of Bihar have lost their land and homes to encroachers from Nepal - triggering a significant rise in violence and conflict along the state's border with the Himalayan Kingdom. The land grab, it appears, has its genesis in a warped century old border treaty. The Indian authorities' inability to ensure pillars demarcating the border ...
07:17 AM, Apr 28, 2011
New Delhi: It's a land grab with International dimensions. Thousands of villagers in seven border districts of Bihar have lost their land and homes to encroachers from Nepal - triggering a significant rise in violence and conflict along the state's border with the Himalayan Kingdom. The land grab, it appears, has its genesis in a warped century old border treaty. The Indian authorities' inability to ensure pillars demarcating the border...
07:17 AM, Apr 28, 2011
New Delhi: Tripura governor and noted Maharashtra educationist DY Patil has been accused of land grabbing. A case of fraud and cheating has been registered against him in Pune. After Iqbal Singh governor of Puducherry, another governor is in trouble, this time for allegations of land-grabbing. A piece of land has landed Tripura governor DY Patil in an ownership dispute. A police complaint has been lodged against Patil, his wife...
07:08 AM, Apr 28, 2011
A don-turned-journalist accuses the group of lodging a false case to silence him on a land grab issue. ...
12:27 AM, Jul 01, 2010
The owners were attacked when they resisted the building of boundary walls around the temple. ...
06:49 PM, Apr 01, 2010
Antony said there was just a difference in perception. ...
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