The order to kill journalist Rajdeo Ranjan, the police say, was issued from Siwan jail.
Seven policemen were killed after their jeep was blown up in a land mine blast by Maoists in Bihar's Aurangabad district on Tuesday evening.
V K Singh, who has turned around Telangana prisons, wants to improve the police force in his home state, Bihar. Is Nitish Kumar paying heed?
Bihar Director General of Police P K Thakur on Monday said that the ongoing investigation into the killing of a senior journalist in Siwan district had suggested that a 'supari' (contract) had been given to kill him.
Cyber criminals are using apps and young women to trap people through mobile phone calls and video chats.
Pandey, who stepped down as the state police chief less than a week ago, however, insisted that he had walked down to the state headquarters of the Janata Dal-United, headed by the chief minister, to "thank" Kumar for the trust reposed in him by the latter.
Patna's senior superintendent of police Manavjeet Singh Dhillon, who is in the eye of a storm for allegedly comparing the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh with Islamic extremist outfit Popular Front of India, on Friday asserted that the controversy stemmed from a "selective interpretation" of his statement.
The proposed mass leave by nearly 70,000 policemen in Bihar was on Wednesday deferred till November 30, following an assurance by Director General of Police Abhayanand that their demands would be looked into, an office-bearer of the Bihar Policemen's Association said.
The FIR by the Bihar police says Rs 15 crore was siphoned off from Sushant's account.' 'During the probe, we found he had Rs 18 crore in his account of which around Rs 4.5 crore are still there.'
The NDA has called for the bandh to protest against the removal of director general of police D P Ojha.
The Bihar government has constituted a Special Investigation Team to probe the large-scale violence and arson by protesters during Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's Adhikar Yatra to Khagaria district two days ago.
In a bid to put pressure on absconding criminals to surrender, Bihar police attached properties of 5,830 criminals during a special drive.
Armed Maoists blasted railway tracks between Kurhni and Turkey railway stations in Bihar's Muzaffarpur district, police said on Friday.
The death of a suspected thief, Govind Rajbhar, in police custody early Friday in Siwan district has angered people in Bihar. Rajbhar is alleged to have been beaten and tortured by the police.
"But the police are doing everything to identify the culprits involved in setting the train on fire and we will take stern action against them," Additional Director General (police headquarters) Neelmani said in Patna on Thursday.
At least ten persons were killed and as many injured in a stampede that broke out on Saturday night during a ritual at a Durga temple in Bihar's Banka district on the occasion of Navratri.
Eighteen people were killed and 19 injured when a double-decker sleeper bus headed for Delhi hit a milk tanker on the Agra-Lucknow Expressway in Unnao on Wednesday, officials said.
Bihar Police Additional Director General Sunil Kumar had earlier said that the five men were engaged by contract killer Mian, known to be close to Shahabuddin.
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has ordered a probe by AGP (headquarter) Rajyavardhan Sharma into the police lathicharge on locals in Nalanda and immediate suspension of the policemen who were involved in the incident. "Legal action must be taken against those found guilty," he said. The CM asked the state director general of police to view TV footage and take legal action against policemen involved in the lathicharge. He also asked Sharma to submit a report.
Search operations for the six-year-old schoolboy, who was kidnapped in Patna's high security area on Monday, have been stepped up with Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar expressing displeasure, as the boy could not be traced even after four days.
A top Bihar police officer is in trouble for allegedly acting like Munnabhai -- the character played actor Sanjay Dutt in the popular film franchise. Additional Director General of Police Gupteshwar Pandey has been accused of 'appearing' for a LLB degree examination without taking the requisite permission from the home department.
A block development officer was kidnapped by armed Maoists from Ladhoura village in Bihar's naxal-hit Sheohar district on Sunday.
The Nitish Kumar government in Bihar on Monday transferred Sheikhpura District Superintendent of Police Babu Ram and all officials of the Barbigha police station following reports of alleged inhuman torture of a liquor trader.
Cracking the whip, Karnataka government on Monday transferred Bangalore city Police Commissioner Raghavendra Auradkar in the wake of a series of rape cases, including that of a 6-year-old girl student in a public school.
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.
A Central Reserve Police Force jawan was fatally injured on Monday in a landmine blast by Naxalites in Gaya district of Bihar, a senior police official said.
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After much pressure from Bihar Chief Minister Jitan Ram Manjhi, the police have arrested Neel Nidhi Singh, main accused of the gang-rape of 5 Mahadalit women, all rag-pickers, in a village in Bihar's Bhojpur district.
Bowing to opposition demands, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Wednesday recommended a Central Bureau of Investigation probe into the killing of Ranvir Sena supremo Bramheshwar Singh.
Police have found evidence about the existence of a printing press in Patna that was run by Telgi and his associates.
Six Naxals were killed and eight others were arrested after an encounter with security forces in Darmaha village in Bihar's east Champaran district in the wee hours of Monday.The over 12-hour-long encounter ended at 4 am on Monday, Director General of Police Neelmani said. The bodies of all the six Naxals have been recovered and eight left-wing ultras, including three women, have been arrested. Security forces have also recovered 14 weapons besides explosives and ammunition.
The NDA has called the dawn-to-dusk bandh to protest against the removal of D P Ojha from the post of director general of police.
Pandey expressed bewilderment over no positive response from the municipal authorities in Mumbai, whom he accused of keeping IPS officer Vinay Tiwari in virtual house arrest, despite being informed about the adverse remarks made by Supreme Court against their action.
Additional Director General of Police Manoj Nath was assigned to probe the release of a Rashtriya Janata Dal candidate and brother of Union Minister of State Jaiprakash Narayan Yadav during the Bihar elections.
Additional Director General of Police Rajwardhan Sharma told rediff.com on Monday, "The Special Task Force has launched a search operation to recover them. Till now there is no trace of them, as their cell phones are switched off."
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has ordered setting up of a special investigation team to probe the alleged gangrape of a teenager by five school students on June 12 and the circumstances in which a CD of the incident was made public.
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