The department Thursday confirmed by email that Officer Daniel Auderer has been administratively reassigned to a non-operational position.
Jaahnavi Kandula was killed in January after she was struck by a police vehicle driven by officer Kevin Dave.
In 2008, Thackeray was booked under Sections 109 and 117 (abetment of offence) of the Indian Penal Code for allegedly making inflammatory speeches.
Indonesian police wrongly used tear gas inside a soccer stadium to disperse rioting fans, an internal oversight official said on Tuesday, while the country's soccer federation banned two club officials.
'Politicians want pliable policemen who would carry out their orders, right or wrong, lawful or illegal.'
'What this incident must do is provide a renewed impetus to urgently bring in police reforms; changes that will ensure that political patronage and extraneous pressure are reduced to a minimum and allow the police to function independently and honestly,' argues Vivek Gumaste.
'In Maharashtra he didn't buckle under pressure.' 'We expect him to do the same as the CBI Director.'
The homeless man who was fatally shot by Los Angeles police on Sunday has outraged civil rights activists and fellow skid row residents.
The Indian police is governed by the archaic, colonial-era Police Act of 1861, which has no place in a democracy. It was created to make the police subservient to its masters and, consequently, antagonistic to the masses, states Veenu Sandhu.
A day after his abrupt transfer, a senior police officer, who could be questioned in connection with the murder of veteran journalist J Dey, said that he was being falsely implicated in the case and the allegations against him were absurd.
The ARC, in its voluminous Fifth Report on 'Public Order', suggested that technology should be used to improve the accessibility of police stations to the public.
It gave five days to an Ahmedabad magistrate and three lawyers involved in the 'cash for arrest warrant' scam to give their replies.
The controversial claim by head of the forensic medicine department at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences that pressure was brought upon him to manipulate the post mortem report on Shashi Tharoor's wife Sunanda Pushkar was debunked on Wednesday by the hospital in a new twist surrounding the mysterious death.
Administration is an evolving process, requiring the civil service to constantly re-invent itself to meet new challenges. The administration must become accountable to the law of the land and to the people.
Regardless of Phata Poster Nikhla Hero's uneven pace and indecisive disposition, Shahid Kapoor, armed with a kooky grin, gives it his best shot.
You just cannot let an institution go adrift and never reporting to any other institution and never submitting itself to any monitoring review or evaluation with regard to its functioning and particularly with regards to an institution which has dominion over the lives and liberties of citizens. That kind of total abdication of government responsibility with regard to that kind of an institution will be dangerous to democracy itself, to the people, Bahukutumbi Raghavan tells Sheela Bhatt