In a jolt to the Bihar government, the Supreme Court on Tuesday dismissed its batch of appeals challenging grant of anticipatory and regular bails to accused under the state's stringent liquor law, saying these matters have choked courts and 14-15 Patna high court judges are hearing these cases only.
His scheduled visit to Sashastra Seema Bal's Patna Frontier on Sunday morning was cancelled due to 'unavoidable reasons', a statement said.
Terming Naxals the biggest human rights violators, Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Monday said security forces have been carrying out 'offensive operations' instead of defensive against the insurgents and have achieved big successes in recent times.
'Prime facie "suggest any wrong doing" by the Mumbai Police, but its "obstruction" to the Bihar Police team could have been avoided as it gave rise to suspicion
The deceased has been identified as Saurav Kumar. Another person accompanying him, Munmun Kumar, was injured in the firing, they said.
'The prisoner was admitted in the hospital due to stomach pain. The x-ray of his stomach was taken and the presence of foreign particles was visible during the examination. There is a need to investigate it thoroughly'
The Supreme Court on Tuesday sought responses from Tamil Nadu and Bihar on a plea filed by a YouTuber, arrested for allegedly circulating fake videos of migrant labourers being attacked in the southern state, seeking clubbing of the FIRs lodged against him.
The cyber crime division have booked the BJP state unit chief under sections of inciting violence and promoting enmity between groups among others.
The accused, Vickykumar Gupta, stated that Lawrence Bishnoi has been wrongly named in the case and that he had no role to play in the shooting as alleged by the Mumbai police.
Following a complaint of cow slaughter, the police on Friday night seized beef and cow skin from a house at the Bengali colony in Noorabad village of the district, an official said.
'To attribute motives to the individual election commissioner or the Election Commission as a group is very unfair.'
'When rape and molestation are supported by the family, it can no longer be considered merely a criminal act.' 'What kind of morality makes rape a family act?' asks Sankrant Sanu.
The IMA has called off its indefinite strike in view of the rescue.
Maoists on Tuesday morning released seven members of a polling party, who were abducted by them two days ago in Bihar's Jamui district, police said. According to police sources, the seven officials were released by Maoists near Kaukakol area in the district.
The Mumbai police has apprehended a man from Bihar in connection with anonymous calls threatening to target industrialist Mukesh Ambani and his family, an official said on Thursday.
T Mandal, general manager (project) with NHPC, had been abducted from Vaishali district in Bihar on November 19.
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.
Khakee: The Bihar Chapter: The picture is as ugly as it is grim, observes Deepa Gahlot.
Verma reached the court of the additional chief judicial magistrate Prabhat Trivedi in an auto rickshaw.
Armed Maoists on Monday attacked Tandwa police station in Bihar's Aurangabad district, leading to exchange of fire. More than 50 heavily armed ultras surrounded the police station late tonight and fired randomly, official sources said.
Although human trafficking is still rampant in Bihar, but the state government's initiatives to check it are showing some results.
The Bihar Police has decided to provide group insurance cover to more than 44,000 policemen deployed in sixteen Maoist-affected districts in the state, officials said on Monday.
Chief ministers of West Bengal, Jharkhand and Odisha on Wednesday evening condoled the demise of Tata Group's chairman emeritus and veteran industrialist Ratan Tata, and said his legacy will live on forever.
The move came even as deputy Chief Minister Tejashwi Yadav, while speaking in the state assembly earlier in the day, sought to go by the version of the Tamil Nadu DGP who has rubbished reports of attacks on Hindi-speaking people in that state.
Yadav took to social media and shared video clips and pictures of the deployment of security personnel, including police and rapid action force, with barricades near his house here, a stone's throw away from the Samajwadi Party headquarters.
After Uttar Pradesh and Jharkhand, Assam is keen to adopt the Bihar's model of speedy trials that led to more than 79,000 convictions of criminals including politicians and lawmakers during the past seven years, a Bihar police official said on Monday.
Stalin said he spoke to Nitish Kumar over phone and assured him that no harm would befall workers and conveyed to him that 'all workers are our workers who help Tamil Nadu's growth and nothing will happen to impact them, I have assured him'.
Of the three civil service aspirants who drowned in the flooded basement of a coaching centre, one each was a student of the Jawaharlal Nehru University and Delhi University.
Here is an explainer on the functioning of the seven-year-old body.
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Tuesday termed misleading claims by opposition leaders that if any state is not named in the Budget speech, then it does not get any budgetary allocation. Replying to a Budget discussion in the Lok Sabha, Sitharaman asserted that no state was being denied money. She recalled that in the past Budgets by the UPA government also did not mention names of all states in their Budget speech.
The kidnappers had demanded a ransom ranging from Rs 60 crore to 100 crore in Nepalese currency, the SP said.
The deceased has been identified as Ajay Kumar Jha, 43, a resident of Bihar.
Shiv Sena (UBT) MLA Aaditya Thackeray has moved the Bombay high court seeking to be heard before any order is passed in a public interest litigation demanding a CBI probe in connection with the deaths of actor Sushant Singh Rajput and his former manager Disha Salian.
'We made a mistake. We misunderstood. Now all is well.'
The Mumbai Police held the accused from Patna on Wednesday for allegedly issuing the death threat to Pawar by making a call on the latter's landline phone, the official said.
Nine persons were injured in a stampede after rush for boarding a train at Bandra railway station in Mumbai on Sunday morning, a civic official said.
The boy ran away from his kidnappers on Sunday.
The state government cancelled the exam on March 2, following reports that the paper was leaked.
At least 12 people, a third of them children, were killed and several others were injured when a speeding truck ploughed into a religious procession in Bihar's Vaishali district on Sunday evening, officials said.
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