Amid reports that suspected terrorist David Coleman Headley visited Lucknow and Agra, the Uttar Pradesh Police on Wednesday said they had no information about his links with the state.
"There is no specific threat to any individual player and there is no threat input," Additional Director General of Police and Commissioner of Police Praveen Dixit told media person hours after claiming there was a threat to Tendulkar from Pakistan-based terror outfit Jaish-E-Mohammad.
The L-G will take decisions on police, officers of all-India services such as the IAS and the IPS, and giving sanction for prosecution in various cases.
The security forces unearthed this information while interrogating the members of the twin modules busted by the police in Rajouri recently.
Police sources claimed that during investigations it was noted that allegations were "mischievous" and "lacked substance".
If the Andhra Pradesh police have their way, numerous private security agencies in the state will soon become part of its anti-terror strategy to counter the threat of terrorists. The police have sent the draft of a new legislation to the state government to make it mandatory for the private security agencies to work in coordination with the police force both in hour of crisis and otherwise.
The arrest, the first of a sitting chief minister, came hours after the Delhi high court refused to grant protection to the AAP national convenor from any coercive action by the agency.
At least six persons were on Monday injured when a portion of an under-construction flyover collapsed on them in Rudauli town of Faizabad district of Uttar Pradesh, police said.
Jammu and Kashmir Director General of Police Dilbag Singh said preliminary investigation suggests it to be 'an act of terrorists but we are investigating the case'.
The West Bengal government has taken a serious note of the situation in certain areas under the Barrackpore Police Commissionerate, including Bhatpara, which has witnessed a series of clashes since May 19, when the bypoll was held in the assembly constituency.
A statement from the Army's Northern Command said its personnel have been conducting 'relentless intelligence-based operations to flush out a group of terrorists involved in an ambush on an Army truck in the Tota Gali area of Bhata Dhurian in Jammu region last month'.
A UP Police officer said Ashish Pandey, a realtor from Lucknow, held licences for three firearms, which have now been suspended.
This was the first such attack in the past many years in the otherwise peaceful Jammu region and coincided with the first day of the New Year.
A halogen light at the pandal overheated, causing an electric wire to catch fire at multiple points simultaneously. Soon the fire engulfed the wooden scaffolding and the tent, Rathi said.
The wife of a senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader and former Uttar Pradesh minister was found murdered at her residence in Muzaffarnagar on Saturday.
In what may be considered the silver lining of a very dark cloud, the 500-year-old Mahabodhi temple and Bodhi tree have not been damaged in spite of the nine serial blasts that rocked the 500-year-old temple premises in Gaya, Bihar.
The bench said the report submitted by the special judge indicates that he has 29 cases with him. In many cases, the trial has begun while in many others the trial is yet to begin.
The 1972 batch IPS officer was removed from the post in February last year after the court deemed his appointment as DGP in February 2008 as invalid. Terming Roy's appointment as arbitrary, the court had asked Maharashtra government to appoint a new DGP within four weeks.
A girl who was set on fire by a person after she did not reciprocate his proposal in Jharkhand's Dumka district succumbed to her burn injuries on Sunday.
Himmatnagar town witnessed communal clashes and arson during Ram Navami celebrations.
State DGP A K Bhargav said it was against the police manual for an official of Sreekumar's rank to maintain such a diary.
Seven people, including three children, were injured in an explosion in Colonelganj area of Kanpur on Tuesday evening, the police said.
Bihar has been put on a high alert and security personnel have been asked to maintain a hawk-eyed watch on all vital installations of the central and state governments on the eve of Republic Day on Monday."We have alerted all the police stations and special security attention is being paid to protect installations of the state and central governments across the state," said Additional Director General of Police (Headquarter) U S Dutt.
The government brought back former Chennai Police Commissioner T K Rajendran, DGP and Inspector Genral prisons, as Chennai Police Commissioner replacing Ashutosh Shukla.
The Assam government has constituted a special task force to be headed by the additional director general of police (criminal investigation department wing) to tackle the rising trend of crime against women in the state.
The Uttar Pradesh police on Saturday filed a chargesheet against 10 persons, including Bahujan Samaj Party legislator Shekhar Tiwari, in the murder of Public Works Department engineer Manoj Kumar Gupta in Auraiya. Tiwari had, on Friday, confessed that he had beaten and tortured PWD executive engineer Manoj Kumar Gupta until he succumbed to his wounds in the early hours of December 24.
The Uttar Pradesh police on Monday arrested two gunmen engaged in the personal security of Bahujan Samaj Party legislator Shekhar Tiwari, who is behind bars for allegedly murdering PWD engineer Manoj Kumar Gupta in Auraiya on December 24. "We suspect Tiwari's gunners Pal Singh and Gajraj Singh, so we arrested them today," UP Additional Director General of Police (law and order) Brijlal said on Minday evening.
Three jawans of the Sashastra Seema Bal were killed and another seriously injured on Friday when a mini truck of the force was blown up in a landmine explosion triggered by Maoists in Chhattisgarh's Dantewada district, said the police. "Three jawans of SSB died while another personnel was injured when the vehicle came in contact with a landmine planted by the Maoists," said Additional Director General (Naxal Operations) Ram Nivas.
Two men, suspected to have helped an alleged Pakistani spy in procuring passport and driving licence using forged documents, were arrested on Tuesday by the Anti-Terrorist Squad of Uttar Pradesh police in Lucknow.
Some of these clippings were from places like Bengaluru, Syria and Karachi in Pakistan, he said.
1980-batch IPS officer Sulkan Singh, who was DG-Training, will replace Ahmed, a 1984-batch IPS officer, who has been shifted as the DG of Uttar Pradesh Provincial Armed Constabulary, a senior home department official said.
Five persons were injured when three blasts rocked the temple city of Gorakhpur on Tuesday evening in the busy Golghar area.
A group of Shiv Sena activists on Thursday claimed to have performed a puja at the Taj Mahal, the 17th century monument of love, creating a commotion but authorities denied that any worship took place.
The alleged shooter was gunned down after a four-hour drama by other CRPF personnel last night, preventing any further casualties. According to sources in the force, an altercation broke out between Singh and other CRPF men over the quantity of food being wasted in the company mess.
Maoists on Thursday opened indiscriminate fire near a camp of the Chhattisgarh Armed Force in Naraynpur district, killing four jawans and leaving another injured. Some jawans of the force were involved in their regular chores near the camp of the 16th battalion of the Force in Bharaghati village when the Maoists started firing at them, killing four jawans and leaving another injured, Additional Director General of Police Ram Niwas said.
Rabri Devi is contesting from Raghopur.
They have also released three sketches of those suspected to have killed Manish Mishra.
Absconding Additional Director General of Rajasthan Police A K Jain, wanted by the Central Bureau of Investigation for his alleged role in the fake encounter death of a local liquor smuggler, on Monday surrendered before a special court in jaipur.
Singh was booked under IPC sections 124-A (sedition) and 153-A (promoting enmity between different groups on grounds of religion, race, place of birth, residence, language, etc) of the IPC at Raipur's City Kotwali police station late on Thursday night, Raipur Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Ajay Yadav said.
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