The crime branch, probing the case, had recently filed a supplementary charge-sheet against Kundra and three others in the case pertaining to alleged creation of pornographic films and publishing them through some apps.
Sources said the plan was conceived after Crime Branch chief Joint Commissioner of Police Dr Satya Pal Singh allegedly started receiving complaints of high-handedness against his men.
Samir Mulla is suspected to have planted the bomb in the local train, which exploded at the Mulund railway station, killing 11 and injuring 60.
Delhi Police have launched an investigation to identify the properties and bank accounts of former Tata Finance Ltd managing director D S Pendse who has been arrested for alleged "misappropriation
Meera Borwankar appointment will not mean the Dawood Ibrahims and Chhota Rajans can take a breather because Borwankar is known as one of the toughest officers Maharashtra has had.
Meera Borwankar will take over from Joint Commissioner of Police Satya Pal Singh as part of a major reshuffle in the Maharashtra police set up in which at least 53 senior police officials were transferred.
Sri Lanka Cricket denied reports that all-rounder Thisara Perera indulged in match-fixing during this year's Indian Premier League, saying that it has full faith in its players.
The victims are accused of being Lashkar-e-Tayiba terrorists and plotting to kill Chief Minister Narendra Modi who is facing a political crisis following the setback to his Bharatiya Janata Party in the Lok Sabha elections.
Mumbai Police, which is probing the gang rape of a 23-year-old photojournalist, on said it has recovered two more mobile phones carried by the accused during the ghastly crime.
Fugitive underworld don Dawood Ibrahim's nephew Alishah Parkar on Wednesday tied the knot with the daughter of a Mumbai-based businessman in a traditional Muslim ceremony, with Mumbai police keeping an eye on the event.
Eight days after an American woman was allegedly attacked and robbed inside a moving suburban train, Railway Police on Monday claimed to have cracked the case, with the arrest of a drug addict from Masjid Bunder in south Mumbai.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday remarked the Gujarat government's reply to pleas challenging the remission granted to 11 convicts in the Bilkis Bano gang-rape case is very bulky wherein a series of judgments have been quoted but factual statements are missing.
Iqbal, who was deported from the United Arab Emirates in 2003, is said to be operating his brother's real estate business.
The staffers posed as US Internal Revenue Service department officials, making a daily turnover of Rs 1.5 crore.
An assistant sub inspector allegedly shot at and injured his senior before committing suicide in Vakola police station in suburban Mumbai on Saturday.
'Dasgupta misused his official position and manipulated TRP of specific news channels broadcast by ARG Outlier Media Pvt Ltd such as Republic Bharat Hindi and Republic TV English,' the police alleged in its remand note.
Former Mumbai police commissioner Rakesh Maria has claimed his successor Ahmed Javed knew Sheena Bora murder case accused Indrani and Peter Mukerjea socially, and that Peter also knew the then joint commissioner of police (law and order) Deven Bharti on "first name terms". Maria, who investigated some high-profile cases like the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts and also headed the probe in the 26/11 Mumbai terror attack, made the revelation in his memoir Let Me Say It Now released on Monday.
Troubles mounted for Mumbai police officer Sachin Waze, who has been facing heat in the murder case of businessman Mansukh Hiran, as a sessions court in Maharashtra's Thane district has refused to grant him interim bail and noted that there was prima facie evidence and material against him.
According to immigration sources, the time of Rajan's deportation will be made clear by the Interpol after they quiz him and a final clearance is issued.
Mulla, an MBA graduate and a resident of Padgha village in Bhiwandi taluka in neighbouring Thane district, is the second accused arrested in connection with the blast.
A bench comprising Chief Justice Uday Umesh Lalit and justices S Ravindra Bhat and Sudhanshu Dhulia, which was to take up the plea for hearing at 3.45 pm, adjourned the matter to September 1 due to paucity of time.
When the team later reached the flat where they were staying, Chhota Rajan asked them to leave immediately, saying the operation was leaked to Dawood Ibrahim.
Both Major Iqbal and Major Pasha are shown as wanted accused in the charge sheet filed by the city police's crime branch in the case.
A day after his anticipatory bail plea was rejected by the Supreme Court, Gujarat Indian Police Service officer P P Pandey, an accused in the Ishrat Jahan encounter case, surrendered before a Central Bureau of Investigation court in Ahmedabad.
Senior Maharashtra Indian Police Service officer Sunil Paraskar, accused of raping and molesting a model-turned-actress, has declined to undergo a polygraph test while the victim expressed readiness to face the scientific examination.
The material collected by the investigating officer shows that Dasgupta manipulated TRP for particular channels by using his office as the CEO of BARC, the court observed.
A local court, while granting bail to businessman Raj Kundra, a key accused in a pornographic films case, noted that the element of inducement, which is the prime ingredient in cheating offences, appears to be missing from the case presented by the prosecution.
Former Broadcast Audience Research Council (BARC) CEO Partho Dasgupta is the 'mastermind' of the Television Rating Points manipulation scam and there seemed more to the case than mere rigging of TRPs, as per the sessions court that had rejected his bail plea last month.
The Mumbai police probing into the shocking gang rape of a 23-year-old woman photojournalist in Mumbai has picked up about 20 people for questioning but obtained no leads in the case so far, even as it has formed special teams to investigate into the matter, police said on Friday.
Associated Journals Ltd (AJL), which runs the National Herald newspaper, on Wednesday told the Delhi high court that the Enforcement Directorate's (ED) May 2020 provisional attachment order attaching its nine-storey building in Mumbai was 'non executable' as the agency has not identified which portions have been attached.
A state government affidavit said all convicts were granted parole, furlough and even temporary bail at different points during their incarceration, with the highest being for 1,576 days and the lowest 998 days.
The accused -- Bhakti Mehere, Hema Ahuja and Ankita Khandelwal -- were arrested for allegedly abetting the suicide of doctor Payal Tadvi by tormenting her with casteist slurs.
The crime branch of Mumbai Police, which is probing the case, had sought the proclamation, saying that the Indian Police Service officer could not be traced even after the issuance of a non-bailable warrant against him.
Singhvi said when the release was ordered on August 15, the Modi government maintained a studied and deliberate silence on freeing the criminals, an action which has drawn legitimate criticism the world over and "exposed our system to widespread shame and ridicule".
Police seized 100 fake notes of old Rs 500 denomination from Burhanuddin, who first claimed to be a Mumbai resident.
Kulbhushan Jadhav's friends, who have known him since childhood, recall a man tough on the outside but full of compassion inside.
Gautam, a former Karnataka wicketkeeper-batsman, was earlier on Thursday arrested by the Bengaluru Central Crime Branch along with Abrar Kazi for allegedly accepting money to spot-fix in the scandal-ridden Karnataka Premier League (KPL).
The officer said further investigation and forensic analysis will be done after the mobile handset and details of the seizure are received from Tihar Jail authorities.
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