Shillong: Suspected Garo National Liberation Army (GNLA) rebels lobbed a grenade at a police station in western part of Meghalaya late on Sunday night but there were no casualties, police said.
The rebels tossed the grenade at Williamnagar police station in the district headquarter of East Garo Hills, a police official said. The incident took place at 11.30 p.m.
"There were no casualties," the police official said.
Meanwhile, police have launched a manhunt to nab the attackers. The GNLA, headed by rogue police officer-turned rebel R Sangma, has unleashed a reign of terror in the three impoverished districts of Garo Hills in western Meghalaya....
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04:20 AM, Jun 17, 2013
New Delhi: A 16-year-old girl committed suicide by hanging in a police station in Delhi on Saturday evening, police said. "The girl, a native of Bangladesh, who works as a domestic help in south Delhi, had gone missing from her home in Vasant Kunj on Friday. A passerby spotted her near Rithala Metro station on Saturday in north Delhi and took her to Vijay Vihar police station," said a police...
05:51 AM, Jun 16, 2013
Kolkata: The Calcutta High Court on Monday ordered a CBI investigation into the alleged custodial death of a youth in the Dhaniakhali police station area in Hooghly district. Passing the order on a PIL seeking a probe by the central agency, a division bench comprising Chief Justice Arun Mishra and Justice Joymalyo Bagchi directed that the CBI investigate the death of Kaji Nasiruddin on January 18. The bench directed the...
03:24 PM, May 13, 2013
Srinagar: A police officer was shot dead by terrorists in Pulwama district of south Kashmir on Friday. Assistant Sub-Inspector Farooq Ahmad was shot from point-blank range by unidentified pistol-borne terrorists in Pulwama town, 32 km from Srinagar, in the afternoon, a police spokesman said. He said the officer was taken to nearby Pulwama district hospital where he succumbed to injuries. Ahmad, who was posted in Pulwama Police Station, was on...
04:10 PM, May 10, 2013
Ghaziabad: The main accused in a double murder case was found dead under mysterious circumstances inside a Ghaziabad police station lock-up on Sunday. The dead man Vineet Sharma was arrested along with another accused Narendra for allegedly murdering a CISF constable and his wife in Ghaziabad. Vineet, the brother-in-law of the killed CISF constable, and Narendra had been arrested by a team of Uttar Pradesh Police from Hathras. Vineet's body...
01:04 PM, Apr 29, 2013
Ghaziabad: An accused in a double murder case was found dead in a police station in Ghaziabad on Sunday. Vinish, an accused in a double-murder case was found dead at the Indirapuram Police Station in his cell. The police claim he committed suicide by hanging himself with a blanket. Vinish was arrested on Saturday in the murders of his brother-in-law, a CISF constable and his wife. More details are awaited....
11:25 AM, Apr 28, 2013
A person was on Tuesday arrested after he tried to forcibly enter the RBI building in Mumbai. The intruder, identified as Padma Girirao Shekhar, who hails from Kerala, told investigators that he did this for "publicity". However, police are verifying his claims. ...
05:28 PM, Apr 02, 2013
A minor girl was allegedly gangraped in Chandauli district in Uttar Pradesh by five men of the village following which the villagers protested violently. The angry protesters set Sakaldih court on fire and demanding the immediate arrest of the five accused. ...
02:21 PM, Mar 28, 2013
Violent protests erupted in Uttar Pradesh's Mathura district on Tuesday after a man died after he was allegedly beaten up and shot dead by policemen. The mob being violent and set the Shergarh police station on fire alleging that the policemen who killed the youth were involved in extortion. ...
01:40 PM, Mar 20, 2013
Reality show 'Bigg Boss' season 2 winner Ashutosh Kaushik created ruckus outside a restaurant in suburban Andheri last night claiming that he was assaulted but did not register a complaint, police said today. ...
11:00 AM, Mar 15, 2013
A man died after he was allegedly set on fire by some policemen on Monday night in Firozabad, Uttar Pradesh. The victim's family has filed a case and police are investigating the incident. ...
10:50 AM, Mar 12, 2013
Trinamool Congress (TMC) workers on Friday ransacked a police station in Chaighoria in North 24 Parganas district over alleged police inaction on complaints of financial irregularities by a panchayat member. ...
11:08 AM, Feb 23, 2013
In a move towards ensuring women's safety, the Andhra Pradesh government on Monday decided to set up one all-woman police station in every district of the state. It was decided to open two to four women police stations in the state capital, besides one or two such stations in cities like Visakhapatnam, Vijayawada, Kurnool, Guntur, Warangal and Tirupati. ...
04:27 AM, Feb 12, 2013
In 2005, the Odisha government had passed an order to set up a 'Woman & Child' desk in every police station in the state. Eight years on, the scheme seems to exists only on paper. ...
08:33 AM, Jan 14, 2013
Kolkata Police has transferred Assistant Commissioner Debasish Baidya, in-charge of Karaya police station, and the OC Prasenjit Bhattacharya. The two have been penalised on charges of misleading the Lalbazar police headquarters over Aminul Islam's death. ...
10:13 AM, Jan 08, 2013
Days after a teenaged gang-rape victim in Patiala district committed suicide after she was repeatedly called to the police station and asked uncomfortable questions, the Punjab government on Monday ordered that no complainant of gender-related cases would be called to police stations in future. ...
01:51 AM, Jan 01, 2013
Cyberabad is all set to get a Women Help Desk at every police station from 2013, police said on Friday. "Deputy Commissioners of Police have been asked to create help desks for women at all the police stations to curb the crime against women," Police Commissioner Ch Dwarka Tirumala Rao said at his year-end press conference. ...
07:49 PM, Dec 28, 2012
A girl allegedly committed suicide on Saturday at Chatakpur in Ranchi after being molested. She poured an inflammable substance and set herself ablaze, a senior police officer with the Ratu police station said. ...
10:11 AM, Dec 16, 2012
Two persons were on Sunday arrested for allegedly dragging a physically challenged person by tying him to a car in Jabalpur. The police said that they also recovered weapons including a pistol, a country-made revolver, cartridges, a crude bomb and a sword from their possession. Action will be taken against them under the National Security Act, the police said. ...
05:02 PM, Dec 09, 2012
The supporters of Aam Aadmi Party Convenor Arvind Kejriwal were allegedly rough-handled at the Narela police station on the outskirts of Delhi on Saturday. Kejriwal and his followers were at the police station demanding that a FIR be registered in a rape attempt case. ...
06:41 PM, Dec 01, 2012
