The Bihar government has filed a First Information Report against Alok Kumar, a senior Indian Police Service officer, who is the deputy inspector general of Saran in Bihar, for allegedly demanding Rs 10 crore from a liquor mafia and threatening him with dire consequences, a police official on Sunday said.
The DGP, who has been monitoring the situation as well as the probe, said that in all likelihood, the unmanned aerial vehicles have flown in from across the border and returned after the operation.
More than 10,000 police personnel, including 65 assistant commissioners, 200 inspectors and 800 sub-inspectors, will be deployed at strategic locations in the city, deputy commissioner of police (control room) Vijay Patel said. This massive deployment will be in addition to officials of the United States Secret Service, and officials of the National Security Guards (NSG) and the Special Protection Group (SPG), he added.
The deputy commissioner of police of East Delhi, where the rape of a five-year-old girl had taken place, was shifted in a reshuffle of middle-level officers of the Delhi police.
The Centre on Tuesday promised to take action on the report of a fact-finding team which claimed that there were 15,000 incidents of post-poll violence in West Bengal in which 25 people were killed and 7,000 women were molested.
'The district administration failed and it was a very costly failure.'
Mahendra Kumawat has a lifetime experience of dealing with Maoists, terrorists and other militancy. He explains why the fight against the Maoists will be a long and arduous one.
A 61-year-old lawyer suffering from cancer was found dead inside her house in Noida in a posh locality, with the police Monday arresting her former Indian Information Service (IIS) officer husband and charged him with the murder.
'If the central government does not give rights to the people of Ladakh, then it won't be good for our country.'
'Any person who wants to enter this service should have a single object of serving the public irrespective of hindrances.'
A former Indian Police Services officer, who lodged an FIR against Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee and was considered very close to the Left Front government during Jyoti Basu's tenure, is among five former police officers contesting the West Bengal assembly polls on Trinamool Congress tickets.
Under attack from opposition, the Bihar government has initiated process to take action against a senior Indian Police Service officer, for allegedly demanding Rs 10 crore as extortion from a liquor mafia, an official on Saturday said.
The Supreme Court on Monday sought dismissed Indian Police Service officer R K Sharma's response on a Delhi police plea challenging his acquittal in the Shivani Bhatnagar murder case.
They were arrested for trying to sneak into Britain in a lorry near Hull earlier this month.
Speculation is rife over the fate of Delhi Police Commissioner Neeraj Kumar in the wake of recent rape of a five-year-old girl and police insensitivity in handling it.
Iconic public buildings, parks and railway stations dazzled with lights on the night of January 26, 1950 turning the capital city into a "fairyland".
Indian Administrative Service and Indian Police Service officers will now need to take prior permission from the Union government
The Gujarat government on Wednesday said it has not accepted the resignation of fake encounter cases accused Indian Police Service officer D G Vanzara, who quit after indicting Chief Minister Narendra Modi.
Ashwani Kumar's family has negated the possibility of foul play.
Suspended Indian Police Service officer Sanjeev Bhatt was on Friday detained in connection with a first information report filed against him by a police constable for allegedly threatening and making him sign a "false" affidavit about a high-level meeting called by Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi on February 27, 2002.
After barring Assam minister Himanta Biswa Sarma from campaigning in the assembly polls for 48 hours, the Election Commission has also transferred his brother and Goalpara Superintendent of Police Sushanta Biswa Sarma from the district.
Allocation of cadre for the Indian Administrative Service and Indian Police Service officers cannot be done by the Centre in an arbitrary manner, the Supreme Court has said.
Criticising West Bengal Governor M K Narayanan for questioning the sudden transfer of police chief R K Pachnanda, Trinamool Congress Member of Parliament Sultan Ahmed on Friday said he should 'behave in consonance' with his gubernatorial responsibilities and not as a 'former Indian Police Service officer'.
A Special Investigation Team (SIT) of the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) reached Mumbai on Saturday, a day after the agency transferred investigation in six cases, including the controversial cruise drugs case in which Shah Rukh Khan's son Aryan Khan was arrested, to it.
Maharashtra's Anti-Terrorism Squad chief Rakesh Maria and six senior Indian Police Service officers will face a Central Bureau of Investigation probe for allegedly shielding a fellow police official, who was accused of clearing his law exam, without appearing for practical exam, the Bombay high court ordered on Monday.
Mumbai Police Commissioner Arup Patnaik was transferred on Thursday amid mounting opposition clamour for his ouster over his alleged failure to prevent August 11 Azad Maidan violence, though the government termed it as a routine exercise.
Caught in a cleft stick over the charges of rampant corruption leveled by a senior Indian Police Service officer, the Mayawati administration on Saturday ordered a high-level probe. DD Misra, deputy inspector general, state fire services pointed towards a scam worth crores of rupees in the fire department.
Replace the Delhi police commissioner and treat the juvenile accused of gang-rape of the 23-year-old braveheart with the same severity as adults, says B Raman
Heeding the demand of suspended Indian Police Service officer Sanjiv Bhatt, Nanavati Commission on Wednesday ordered a high-level inquiry into the alleged destruction of 2002 post-Godhra riot papers.
The Jammu and Kashmir administration has sacked three employees, including the Kashmir University public relations officer, for allegedly working with Pakistan-based militant outfits, raising finances for them and propagating their ideology, officials said on Monday.
'This incident is likely to embolden the radicals as also the sleeper cells of terrorists and their masters hiding abroad, including Pakistan.'
South African police issued identikit pictures on Tuesday of two men suspected of killing the national football captain, a death that led to more calls for tighter gun laws a week after track star Oscar Pistorius was jailed for shooting his girlfriend.
A group of retired civil servants on Tuesday wrote an open letter to Chief Justice of India N V Ramana seeking intervention by the Supreme Court in the alleged illegal detention, bulldozing of residences and police violence in Uttar Pradesh following protests against certain objectionable remarks made by two now-removed Bharatiya Janata Party functionaries.
An Indian man, who was pursuing an MBA in the United Kingdom, died after being struck by a train at a London Underground station in the capital's southwest, authorities said on Monday.
Signalling stepped up operations in junglemahal after withdrawal of the offer of ceasefire by the Maoists and the killing of two Trinamool Congressmen, the West Bengal government has recalled senior Indian Police Service officer Manoj Verma as superintendent of police, counter insurgency force.
'This is a politically motivated decision.' 'Nitish Kumar is desperate to win as many parliamentary seats as possible.'
The department of personnel and training, which acts as a nodal authority for IAS officers, is conducting the proceedings.
An Indian Police Service officer has gone missing from Tippi in West Kameng district of Arunachal Pradesh when he was on his way to Tawang from Itanagar.
Mumbai police, citing his suicide note, said the 1988-batch Indian Police Service officer took the extreme step 'out of frustration' due to his illness.
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