The state government will send the recommendation to the Centre for a CBI probe into the case at the earliest.
'Police officers should be selected on merit and not on the basis of who is close to the political party in power.'
The two were arrested by the Mumbai crime branch sleuths late Wednesday night.
An office assistant, who was arrested for the sexual assault of a three-and-a-half-year-old girl at a Bangalore school, was on Sunday remanded to six days police custody by a magisterial court.
Maharashtra Home Minister R R Patil on Thursday said investigating agencies were probing all angles to determine whether any terror outfit was behind the low intensity serial bomb blasts that rocked Pune on Wednesday night.
In a shocking discovery that could spell more trouble for the Sabarmati Central Jail authorities in Ahmedabad, police have found that the tunnel dug by Ahmedabad serial blasts accused was 214 feet long and not 26 feet as originally said.
Prince Tewatia (33) was an undertrial prisoner lodged in ward 6 of central jail number 3 which has around 380 inmates, they said.
Dismissing the Crime Branch-Criminal Investigation Department inquiry into the death of Swami Nigamanand as ordered by the Uttarakhand government, the Congress on Wednesday demanded a probe by the Central Bureau of Investigation in the case. "The Ramesh Pokhriyal government is responsible for the death of Swami Nigamanand as it failed not only to check illegal quarrying in the Kumbh area at Haridwar but also failed to provide proper medical care to him," said a BJP leader.
Sources said the forensic team would match their findings with that of the report given by the team of forensic science experts from Agra who had visited the site last week.
He was arrested this morning by CBI sleuths.
BCCI's Anti Corruption Unit (ACU) is waiting for the Karnataka police reports for the further course of action against the accused in the Karnataka Premier League match-fixing scandal.
A special court on Wednesday issued a notice to the Central Bureau of Investigation, which is probing the 2003 encounter of Sadik Jamal, after allowing a petition by his brother seeking further investigation in the case, including that of the "role" played by Chief Minister Narendra Modi.
The accused in the Mumbai gang rape case have admitted to having earlier committed two rapes and a molestation inside the deserted Shakti Mills compound, investigators said on Tuesday.
Deputy Commissioner of Police of the Ahmedabad Crime Branch Abhay Chudasama was on Wednesday arrested in connection with the Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter case. He is the fourth police officer to be taken into custody in connection with the encounter.Central Bureau of Investigation's Deputy Inspector General P Kandaswamy confirmed that Chudasama had been arrested. He has been accused of conspiring to kill Sohrabuddin.This is the first arrest by the CBI.
The Mumbai police on Wednesday recorded the statement of IPS officer and former state intelligence chief Rashmi Shukla for over two hours in connection with a case of alleged illegal tapping of phones, an official said.
Senior advocate Indira Jaising said the case should be transferred to Chandigarh due to proximity to Kathua in Jammu and Kashmir and the incidents of obstruction of police personnel by lawyers of the local court.
The order was passed by a bench headed by Justice B H Marlapalle, which directed the CBI to submit a progress report within three weeks.
A public interest litigation was filed on Monday in the Bombay high court demanding that probe into the July 13 serial Mumbai blasts should be transferred to Central Bureau of Investigation.
One of the prime accused of the Mumbai serial train blasts in 2006 may have been involved in the Ahmedabad blasts. The intelligence agencies are trying to track Zulfikar Kagzi, a native of Rajasthan, and Sayyad Sheikh in connection with the Ahmedabad blasts.Kagzi is considered to be an expert in manufacturing bombs by using ammonium nitrate. Both accused were members of the banned outfit Students Islamic Movement of India.
A real estate developer, one of the accused held in the 2011 senior journalist Jyotirmoy Dey murder case and who was suspected to be a close aide of underworld don Chhota Rajan, died at a private hospital on Friday following liver failure, police said.
Curfew was relaxed for six hours in Odisha's Bhadrak on Monday even as social media platforms remained blocked in the area and probe stepped up against rumormongers and into alleged abusive remarks on Hindu deities that triggered violence in the town.
The Orissa police has got a nod from a Delhi court to interrogate top Maoist leader Kobad Ghandy in connection with cases of Naxal violence including those relating to killing of police personnel.
The killing of a chemist in eastern Maharashtra's Amravati city was related to social media posts supporting suspended Bharatiya Janata Party leader Nupur Sharma, police said on Saturday, even as the case was handed over to the National Investigation Agency.
The Supreme Court on Wednesday questioned the CBI and the Gujarat government as to why they want to send social activist Teesta Setalvad and her husband Javed Anand back in jail after they have been out for over seven years on anticipatory bail.
The Allahabad high court on Wednesday directed the Uttar Pradesh government to submit a status report on the crime branch-criminal investigation department or any other agency probe into the murder of a 14-year-old girl in a police station in Lakhimpur district
At least four FIRs related to extortion were registered against Singh in Mumbai and adjoining Thane.
A day after India suffered huge embarrassment, the Central Bureau of Investigation has removed from its list of red corner notice fugitives the name of Wazhul Kamar Khan, who figured in the '50 most wanted' list given to Pakistan but was found staying in Thane.
Controversial Telugu Desam Party legislator TV Rama Rao, who is facing a case of alleged rape and murder, is likely to be arrested by the Crime Branch's Criminal Investigation Department. Five girls from Kerala have given a statement to the CID, alleging sexual harassment and attempted rape by the legislator. The Kerala government has also raised the issue with the government of Andhra Pradesh and the central government. Rama Rao has claimed that this was a conspiracy.
Sharp shooter Asgar Ali and four persons arrested from Hyderabad, four agents of the Pakistan-based Inter-Services Intelligence and three persons from Ahmedabad, who were arrested by the city crime branch, were booked under the act.
In a major breakthrough in the Aarushi murder case, the Delhi police today claimed to have recovered mobile phone of the teenaged girl, a move which the family termed as a "ray of hope" even as the CBI refused to comment on the development.
The Special TADA Court on Friday remanded Karimullah Osan Habib Khan, a key accused in the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts, to Central Bureau of Investigation's custody till August 29.Khan, who has been on the run for the last 15 years, was arrested by the Mumbai Crime Branch on Thursday. An accomplice of gangster Dawood Ibrahim, he was arrested from the extended suburbs of Nallasopara.Khan was allegedly involved in the landing of RDX on the Raigad coast and its transport to Mumbai
A special court in Mumbai on Friday granted bail to dismissed police officer Sachin Waze in an alleged money laundering case linked to former Maharashtra minister Anil Deshmukh.
The Central Bureau of Investigation on Saturday filed a chargesheet against sitting Bharatiya Janata Party MP Dinu Bogha Solanki in connection with the murder of RTI activist Amit Jethwa who had waged a crusade against illegal mining in Gir forest, the last abode of Asiatic lions.
Police said the two were involved in fixing in the KPL 2019 finals between Bellary Tuskers and Hubli Tigers after accepting Rs 20 lakh each for slow batting.
Led by CBI joint director Arun Kumar, the seven-member team of the Central agency's special crime branch spent more than an hour near the railway tracks in the Patipukur area of Kolkata's northern fringe after taking over the investigation from the state CID following an order of Calcutta High Court. The team includes forensic experts.
The raids were carried out at Mumbai, Thane and Nashik.
This is the first arrest under the Act which came into force in July 2017, replacing the 1982 vintage law, according to which an accused can face a maximum punishment of life imprisonment till death and his properties can be confiscated, police said.
Rajasthan Minister Babulal Nagar, accused of raping a 35-year-old woman at his residence in Jaipur, on Thursday tendered his resignation.
She had been lodged in the Sabarmati Central jail in Ahmedabad since her arrest on June 26.
