A young, mentally-challenged Christian girl accused of blasphemy has been moved from the police headquarters in Pakistani capital Islamabad to an undisclosed location for security reasons, days after she was granted bail in the controversial case that has sparked international concern.
The third accused in the murder of a factory worker here was today sent to 14-day judicial custody after he was arrested even as two more policemen were sent to police lines for allegedly not acting on the victim's complaint earlier.
The fact that rodents were making merry in the dungeons came to light following media reports that they had overrun the 'Malkhana' (store) of the police stations.
Teni was allegedly travelling in the SUV with Rocky and bodyguard Rajesh Kumar, when Aditya was shot dead near police lines under Rampur police station area after Rocky's vehicle was overtaken by the car in which Aditya and his friends were sitting.
Security forces in Amritsar and other areas of the state have been asked to remain on alert ahead of the 31st anniversary of Operation Bluestar on Saurday.
The Noida police have arrested the third accused in the murder of a 21-year-old woman factory worker even as two policemen were sent to police lines for allegedly not acting on the complaint of the victim in the past.
Thirty-eight people, including three top police officers, were killed and more than 50 injured when a suicide bomber targeted the funeral of a slain policeman in Quetta city of southwest Pakistan on Thursday.
The flood situation continued to be critical in Arunachal Pradesh.
Umer Khalid was a A++ category top ranking terrorist and carried a cash reward of nearly Rs 7 lakh.
Pakistan will not initiate a dialogue with the local Taliban unless they lay down their arms and give up terrorism, Interior Minister Rehman Malik said on Friday amid reports of secret negotiations between the government and militant groups.
People poured their wrath on Mussoorie MLA Ganesh Joshi for showing cruelty to the animal.
The terror strike took place at the crack of dawn when the terrorists, believed to be foreign mercenaries, entered the police complex in the worst-hit Pulwama district.
A police officer in-charge was among the two persons who were shot dead by a former sarpanch over a property dispute at the Juravanpur police station in Bihar's Vaishali district, a police officer said on Wednesday.
Irked at the media coverage on his stolen buffaloes and the subsequent suspension of three policemen, Uttar Pradesh minister Mohd Azam Khan said his cattle had become more famous than Britain's Queen Victoria.
It is the fourth arrest in the case after main accused Rakesh Ranjan Yadav alias Rocky, his father Bindi Yadav and bodyguard Rajesh Kumar.
At least six persons, including four policemen, were injured in a suspected militant attack in Srinagar near a hospital in Shopian district of south Kashmir.
This is the third such incident of police personnel fainting during a physical ability test in Azamgarh district.
Nine army men have been awarded Shaurya Chakra, the third highest peacetime gallantry award.
In all the instances of sniper attacks, the terrorists used a nearby hillock to carry out strikes on a security force campus when unsuspecting jawans were using their mobile phones to talk to their family or friends.
The terrorists have been identified as Raqib Ahmad Sheikh, a resident of Shiganpora in Kulgam, and Pakistani nationals Waleed and Numan, a police spokesman said.
Ujala Thakur, the main accused in connection with the assault of national level Kabaddi player Sneha 'Dolly' Singh was arrested on Wednesday.
At least four persons were killed and over 20 others injured in a suspected suicide attack on the police lines at Timergarah in the militancy-hit Malakand region of northwest Pakistan on Friday.
The Janata Dal-United on Sunday condemned the road rage incident in which party Member of Legislative Council Manorama Devi's son shot dead a youth and assured that appropriate action would be taken against him as per the law.
Two people have been killed as protesters on Saturday attacked police posts and security personnel in several areas and targeted BJP office in Kulgam as violence broke out in Kashmir Valley, a day after Burhan Wani, a poster boy of terror outfit Hizbul Mujhaideen, was killed in an encounter.
Punjab, which faced two terror attacks in six months, on Sunday announced deployment of a commando battalion and a special SWAT team in Pathankot as a "second line of defence" and also sought deployment of more Border Security Force troops along the state's border with Pakistan.
Modi can waive loans of the country's rich but can't do the same for farmers, he said.
The attack by the LeT to free "hardcore" Lashkar-e-Tayiba terrorist Mohammed Naveed Jhatt took place around 11.35 am inside the busy SMHS hospital complex in a high security area of Jammu and Kashmir's summer capital.
Initial reports said the blast occurred within the barracks of the Anti-Terrorism Squad at the Police Lines. Witnesses said several injured persons were rushed to nearby hospitals by ambulances.
The Uttar Pradesh police on Thursday arrested around 340 people, including former Bharatiya Janata Party Member of Legislative Assembly Lalu Singh, and put 42 others under house arrest on the eve of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad's 'Sankalp Diwas' rally in Ayodhya, which has been banned by the state government.
The policemen were patrolling the area in view of a separatist-sponsored strike.
Three Uttar Pradesh police constables, deputed for security of Ajay Katra -- prime witness in Nitish Katara murder case -- have filed a complaint alleging their colleague offered them Rs 50 lakh each for "not defending" Ajay during an attack planned "at the behest of politician D P Yadav".
Tantray was out on a parole since 2015. He was the mastermind of a suicide attack at Srinagar airport earlier this year.
Jaish-e-Mohammad, the Pakistan-based terror outfit, has claimed responsibility for the attack.
Uttarakhand Additional Secretary (Home) J P Joshi, who is accused of raping a 29-year-old woman on the pretext of providing her a job, was suspended on Thursday.
As opposition parties targeted the Bharatiya Janata Party over the police action on the campus, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP president Amit Shah spoke to Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and asked him to address the issue at the earliest.
Police horse 'Shaktiman', who suffered multiple fractures on its hind leg during a Bharatiya Janata Party protest in Dehradun last month triggering widespread outrage, died on Wednesday.
According to the police, the grenades were discovered by sweepers who were cleaning the area.
By the time the police force could move any closer to the five-feet-high wall fencing the land, the encroachers had started firing. Within seconds it was raining bullets and the encroachers had positioned themselves at the trees in the enclosed area.
Head Constable Sharief had gone underground soon after the arrest of a Jaish financial chief Amzad and his associates.
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