Though the name of the district minister is not mentioned in the book, Madam Commissioner, the retired IPS officer apparently points to Nationalist Congress Party leader Ajit Pawar, the present deputy chief minister of Maharashtra. Pawar held the post of "guardian minister" of Pune district at the time, when the state had a Congress-NCP government.
Armed Maoists blasted railway tracks between Kurhni and Turkey railway stations in Bihar's Muzaffarpur district, police said on Friday.
The body of slain Maoist leader Kishenji would be sent to his home at Peddapalli in Andhra Pradesh by the West Bengal government after conducting a postmortem in Kolkata.
In a prize catch, the West Bengal police on Tuesday night arrested top Maoist leader Venkateswar Reddy, the suspected mastermind of the attack that killed 24 Eastern Frontier Rifles personnel in Silda in West Midnapore district. Additional Director General of Police of the Criminal Investigation Department Raj Kanojia said Reddy, alias Telugu Dipak, was arrested from Sarshuna on the southern fringes of the city.
The Gujarat high court on Wednesday ordered further probe into the murder of Right To Information activist Amit Jethva in view of allegations made by his father.
The Gauhati high court on Friday directed the Tamil Nadu government to give permission and security to a delegation from Assam while inspecting the elephants taken from Guwahati to temples of the southern state.
Rahul Rawail remembers his mentor Raj Kapoor.
It was not clear if any decision was taken to act against those responsible for killing police inspector Subodh Kumar Singh.
Goa police have alerted their Mumbai counterparts about possible presence of a Harkat-ul-Jihadi-Islami terror suspect in the metropolis after he left the coastal state two days ago.
R R Verma on Thursday took charge as the fourth chief of the Special Investigation Team probing the Ishrat Jahan police encounter case at the agency's office in Shahibaug area in Ahemedabad.
Mohammed Omar Madni, a suspected aide of Lashkar-e-Tayiba founder Hafiz Saeed, is likely to be questioned by the Mumbai police in connection with the July 11, 2006 serial train blasts case. "We are in touch with Delhi police authorities and after getting more information from them, we will send a team to interrogate him," Additional Director General (Anti-Terrorism Squad) K P Raghuvanshi said.
The ISI operative was in Patna to collect information about the Ordnance factory at Rajgir in Nalanda district.
A bomb disposal squad was rushed to the spot after an unexploded bomb was found a few hundred metres away from the helipad used by Punjab and Haryana chief ministers in Chandigarh on Monday, officials said.
The Indian Army guards the Line of Actual Control -- India's border with China -- along with the ITBP.
In a first of its own kind, the Central Bureau of Investigation on Friday announced a cash reward of Rs 10 lakh to anyone leading to the arrest of a serving but absconding Additional Director General of Rajasthan Police A K Jain in a fake encounter killing case of 2006.
Maharashtra government on Thursday appointed senior Indian Police Service officer K P Raghuvanshi as the chief of Anti-Terrorism Squad hours after the Bombay High Court pulled up the authorities over the crucial body remaining headless since the killing of Hemant Karkare in terror attacks in Mumbai last November.
Sharjil Imam came to limelight during the ongoing protests against the CAA in Delhi's Shaheen Bagh, for his alleged remarks threatening to 'cut-off' Assam from rest of India.
"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.
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.
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.
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.
The Uttar Pradesh police will get a psychological test done on Ahmad Murtaza Abbasi, accused in the attack on security personnel outside Gorakhpur's Gorakhnath temple, a senior official said on Thursday.
Mobs hurled bombs and pelted stones at each other as violence erupted in Kanpur after groups of people tried to force shopkeepers to down shutters over an alleged insult to Prophet Mohammed on a television show.
Suspension of Internet services in ten districts of Assam was extended for 48 hours on Thursday
Security forces on Friday launched a massive cordon and search operation in the forest area of Jammu and Kashmir's Poonch district, a day after five army personnel were killed and two others injured in a terrorist attack.
The wife of a senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader and former Uttar Pradesh minister was found murdered at her residence in Muzaffarnagar on Saturday.
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.
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.
Police sources claimed that during investigations it was noted that allegations were "mischievous" and "lacked substance".
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.
A UP Police officer said Ashish Pandey, a realtor from Lucknow, held licences for three firearms, which have now been suspended.
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.
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 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 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 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.
The government brought back former Chennai Police Commissioner T K Rajendran, DGP and Inspector Genral prisons, as Chennai Police Commissioner replacing Ashutosh Shukla.
