The Central Bureau of Investigation, which submitted its first charge sheet in the 2004 Ishrat Jahan fake encounter case, has not named ten police officers who might have spilled the beans about the offence and are likely to be let off.
The Central Bureau of Investigation on Thursday placed Anup Chetia, founder member of banned United Liberation Front of Assam militant group, under arrest in connection with a nearly three-decade-old murder case registered by the central probe agency.
Senior United States lawmakers have demanded an inquiry into the Federal Bureau of Investigation investigations that brought to light the extramarital affair of former Central Intelligence Agency Director David Petraeus, wanting to know when the top general's name popped up on FBI radar and whether national security was compromised.
Customs sleuths will be posted in London, Hong Kong, Dubai and Brussels in an effort to check trade-based money-laundering among others.
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Charging the Central Bureau of Investigation for not probing role of a Pakistan-based terror outfit Lashkar-e-Tayiba in the Ishrat Jahan encounter case, the Bharatiya Janata P Party on Thursday alleged that the agency was acting at the behest of the Congress with a one-point agenda to frame the Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi.
The Central Bureau of Investigation has booked senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader from Rajasthan Gulab Chand Kataria and three others for murder charges in Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter killing case.
'Jaish looked to creating regional mayhem, at a time when peace appeared more likely, and when that peace would have threatened Jaish's existence.'
The home ministry is not convinced that the Central Bureau of Investigation has evidence to arrest or prosecute a top Intelligence Bureau officer in the conspiracy to carry out the fake encounter in which Ishrat Jahan and three others were killed in Gujarat nine years ago.
The Centre's new interlocutor for Naga peace talks, A K Mishra, has held an 'informal' meeting with the Working Committee of the Naga National Political Groups (NNPGs), the bloc said on Thursday.
The CPI (Maoist) on Sunday vowed to avenge the death of its top leader Cherukuri Rajkumar alias Azad in an encounter with police in Adilabad district of Andhra Pradesh.
These builders had collected the taxes from prospective buyers but had failed to deposit them.
Periodic misunderstandings and mutual bitterness in the relations between co-operating intelligence agencies are part of the intelligence game, writes strategic expert B Raman.
He also claimed that the Central Bureau of Investigation has filed an FIR on the setting up of the 'secret unit'.
To ensure free, fair and transparent assembly elections next month in Punjab, the police have intensified search operations, especially in the border districts, to keep a vigil on illegal activities in vulnerable areas.
The Union Home Ministry has issued showcause notices to six senior officers, including the Bathinda police chief, over the "major lapses in security" during Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to Punjab, officials said here on Friday.
The National Police Memorial, a 30-foot-tall and 238-tonne black granite structure, was unveiled by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on October 21 last year on the occasion of police commemoration day.
The Mumbai international airport was on Sunday put under heightened security alert following inputs from central intelligence agencies about a possible airborne attack on the country's busiest airport. The alert was issued from New Delhi, sources said.
Even as Central Bureau of Investigation probes the Ishrat Jahan and Sadiq Jamal alleged fake encounter cases, at least 555 such alleged extra judicial killings have been reported in the country, including 138 in Uttar Pradesh, in the last four years.
market, was today seized from an illegal drug manufacturing unit in Jalgaon district in north Maharashtra and six persons were arrested, Directorate of Revenue Intelligence officials said.
The Central Bureau of Investigation has announced a reward of Rs 5 lakh for anyone providing information on Zishan Johar and Amjad Ali Rana, the two persons who were killed in an encounter along with Ishrat Jahan in June 2004.
Defence forces, who were last month excluded from the list of agencies eligible to procure jammers, have now been included, in addition to central armed police forces like Central Reserve Police Force, Central Industrial Security Force and Indo Tibetan Border Police.
To curb the menace of illicit fund flows, the government has set up a high level panel that will look into trade-based money laundering activities which particularly involve manipulation of invoices.
The clean chit to Aryan Khan and five others by the Narcotics Control Bureau on Friday has once again brought the central agency's former zonal director Sameer Wankhede under the spotlight.
The Ram Pradhan Committee report on the 26/11 terror attacks in Mumbai has revealed that the Maharashtra intelligence chief never received inputs of Central spy agencies prior to the mayhem unlike the Director General of Police's office, which received alerts from the Intelligence Bureau and the Research and Analysis Wing.
The PM and home minister, along with all heads of various police and other security agencies, will attend the conference.
He is seeking disclosure of correspondence between the Central Bureau of Investigation and the law ministry and opinion of the attorney general in the case.
The Bharatiya Janata Party on Thursday claimed that former chief of army staff General V K Singh is being targeted by the United Progressive Alliance government for sharing the dais with BJP's prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi at a recent rally in Rewari, Haryana.
CBI and Enforcement Directorate are probing the huge remittances to Hong Kong from the bank.
As the National Investigation Agency started its probe into the serial blasts in this temple town, Union Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde on Wednesday did not rule out the involvement of three to four persons in the attack.
Blame game over sharing of intelligence has clouded investigations into the serial blasts at Patna's Gandhi Maidan during Narendra Modi's rally on October 27 in which six people lost their lives and 85 others were injured.
Income tax officials have directed property dealers and registration authorities to prepare a list of top property deals that have taken place in the last three years.
Interestingly, both the agencies wrongfully cited section 24 of the RTI Act for denial of response to the petitioner.
Dubey is the main accused in the encounter that took place in Kanpur last week, in which a group of assailants allegedly opened fire on a police team, which had gone to arrest him. Eight police personnel were killed in the encounter.
'There is no point in just saying, 'hum wapas bhej denge (we will send Kashmiri Pandits back)'.'
'Use of the word 'genocide' for Kashmiri Pandits is absolutely wrong.'
The army closed the alleged Pathribal fake encounter case on Thursday saying that "the evidence recorded could not establish a prime facie case against any of the accused persons, but clearly established that it was a joint operation by the police and the army based on specific intelligence".
The Centre on Wednesday told the Delhi high court that the Intelligence Bureau had no "material" (records) regarding the Rs 16,000 crore Scorpene submarine deal.
'The cooperation of Yakub with the investigating agencies after he was picked up informally in Kathmandu and his role in persuading some other members of the family to come out of Pakistan and surrender constitute, in my view, a strong mitigating circumstance to be taken into consideration while considering whether the death penalty should be implemented,' B Raman had written in August 2007.
