Jalandhar: A Punjab Police constable was on Saturday dismissed from service for allegedly sodomizing an eight year old boy in Jalandhar, an official said. The constable, Sanjiv Kumar, was booked by police on Friday evening after the victim told his family that the policeman had sexually assaulted him.
A senior police officer said that the constable has been dismissed from service following the incident. The victim, who is the son of a migrant labourer from Uttar Pradesh, lived in the neighbourhood of the constable.
The victim had come to this Punjab city, 150 km from Chandigarh, with his family recently and was to take admission in a school. The constable had lured the boy to his room by offering biscuits.
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07:38 AM, Jun 16, 2013
Meerut: A head constable of Uttar Pradesh Police on Sunday allegedly committed suicide by shooting himself. According to the police, head constable Sanjay Sharma (38) was posted at Nauchandhi police station in Meerut district since December 2012. He was residing in police line with his wife and two children. On Sunday, Sharma accompanied his wife to Jaydevi Nagar where her parents were residing and shot himself after locking himself up...
02:23 AM, Jun 03, 2013
New Delhi: A Delhi Police head constable shot himself dead on Sunday night, citing a "family dispute" as the reason for his suicide, police said. Narendra Kumar, 35, deputed on a PCR van in Narela area in north Delhi, shoot himself in the chin with his service revolver at around 9 pm. He was taken to a hospital where doctors declared him dead, a police officer said. A suicide noted...
04:56 AM, May 27, 2013
Lucknow: Two Provincial Armed Constabulary constables in Lucknow got into a major scuffle on Wednesday leaving each other injured. The constables assaulted each other with batons before they got into a fist-fight. A probe has been ordered against both the constables. One of the constables was severely injured in the incident. This comes as an embarrassment for the Uttar Pradesh administration as the two constables were part of the Chief...
03:06 PM, May 22, 2013
New Delhi: A 40-year-old Delhi Traffic Police constable was killed by a speeding truck In Delhi on Tuesday morning, police said. The errant truck driver was arrested. Mahesh Anand, who was on his way to Delhi's Todapur traffic lines on his bike, was knocked down and crushed by the truck near east Delhi's Shastri Park area around 6.45 am, police said. Truck driver Alam, 22, was arrested, police said. The...
04:53 AM, May 22, 2013
An Assam police constable pulls a transportation bus through by his hair in Guwahati. ...
10:04 AM, May 13, 2013
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Thursday dismissed two separate petitions seeking quashing of the FIR and transfer of probe from city police to CBI in the case lodged for various offences, including rioting and death of constable Subhash Tomar during anti-rape protests in the capital. Turning down the plea of seven out of eight protestors who were booked under various sections of Indian Penal Code and Prevention of...
06:27 PM, May 09, 2013
Jamnagar: A 30-year-old woman was arrested for allegedly killing her toddler son by setting him ablaze at her residence on Wednesday, apparently following a dispute with her husband, police said. "Vandana, wife of one Kishore Vadgama who is a carpenter by profession, today burnt her two-year-old son Raunak alive, after dousing him with kerosene," they said. The incident took place this morning at Vambay Awaas Yojana, where the couple is...
12:35 AM, May 09, 2013
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court will on Wednesday give its verdict on two separate pleas seeking quashing of the FIR and transfer of probe from city police to CBI in the case lodged for various offences, including rioting and death of constable Subhash Tomar during anti-rape protests in December. Justice GP Mittal, who had reserved the order on March 20, will pronounce the verdict at 2.15 pm on Thursday....
09:51 PM, May 08, 2013
Ghaziabad: A person, arrested in connection with the murder of a CISF constable and his wife, was on Sunday found hanging in the toilet of a police lock-up in Ghaziabad. While a fellow prisoner has alleged that the victim was tortured to death, police ruled out the charges, saying he committed suicide. Victim Vineet Sharma, brother-in-law of the slain constable, was arrested by Indirapuram Police along with one more person...
02:15 AM, Apr 29, 2013
New Delhi: A traffic constable escaped unhurt after he was fired upon when he tried to stop three people who were riding a motorcycle without wearing helmets on Wednesday evening, police said. "The incident happened at Preet Vihar in east Delhi. Traffic constable Monu was manning a traffic signal when he saw the motorcyclists, with no helmets and riding three to a motorcycle. He tried to stop them, but they...
05:55 AM, Apr 25, 2013
Ghaziabad: Delhi police constable Ajit Baliyan, who had died of bullet wounds on April 10, 2013, was murdered by his wife's paramour and had not committed suicide, the police on Wednesday said. Constable's wife Raj and her lover Mukesh have been arrested and the two have confessed to their involvement in the crime, SSP Nitin Tiwari said. According to initial reports, Ajit, who died of bullet wounds, had committed suicide...
03:10 AM, Apr 25, 2013
Lucknow: Five constables and a Station House Officer (SHO) were on Tuesday suspended for torturing five youths they had detained on Monday evening at Muzaffarnagar, officials said. The policemen were suspended for allegedly beating up the youths in custody at Mansoorpur police station. They also tried to force the youths into confessing to a crime they had not committed. Senior Superintendent of Police Manjil Saini told IANS that the five...
05:16 AM, Apr 24, 2013
New Delhi: Two more of the eight men who allegedly gang-raped a 13-year-old girl in Delhi in March 2013 have been arrested, taking the total to five, police on Sunday said. The girl, who attempted suicide on Saturday, is stated to stable in hospital. "We have arrested two people in the case," a police officer told IANS but refused to divulge any more information. Three people were arrested on Saturday,...
05:05 AM, Apr 22, 2013
Srinagar: Four Jammu and Kashmir Police constables were arrested in Srinagar for extorting at gunpoint Rs 50,000 from a resident last week, police said on Thursday. A police officer said a resident of Batmaloo area in Srinagar filed a compliant that some armed men in uniform robbed him of Rs 50,000 on April 3. "Four constables have been arrested on the complaint and investigations have been started into the allegation...
01:26 AM, Apr 12, 2013
Lucknow: Once again a policeman in Uttar Pradesh has been accused of rape, dealing another massive blow to the already poor law and order in the state. A policemen Veer Singh has been arrested for allegedly raping and threatening a women in Raniganj police station on Sunday. Veer Singh allegedly assaulted the woman, who had come to file a rape complaint, after promising to help her. The victim alleges in...
12:01 PM, Apr 08, 2013
Mumbai: Two constables have been injured after a BMW car ran over them late on Sunday night. The incident took place around 1:45 am near a check-point at Peddar Road in Mumbai. The police claim that the car refused to stop and ran over the cops and also hit another car. A male driver and a woman were inside the car. The 28-year-old driver has been arrested and booked for...
08:09 AM, Apr 08, 2013
Hyderabad: Press Council of India chairman Markandey Katju on Saturday appealed to Andhra Pradesh government to release Abdul Qadeer, a former police constable who is in jail for last 22 years for gunning down a police officer. Katju submitted a letter to Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy urging him to pardon the 51-year-old former constable on humanitarian grounds. Katju pointed out that Abdul Qadeer has already spent 22 years...
04:48 AM, Apr 07, 2013
A constable allegedly committed suicide after shooting and seriously wounding a police officer at Chhanbila police station on Sagar-Chhatarpur road on Tuesday night. Constable Sukhram Upadhyaya first shot Assistant Police Inspector YK Awasthi with his service gun. ...
07:12 PM, Mar 27, 2013
In the case of the death of police constable Subhash Tomar, the Delhi Police has told the High Court that it will drop murder charges against the eight arrested individuals. The cross examination of the FIR against the arrested individuals is scheduled for Wednesday. ...
09:26 AM, Mar 20, 2013
