A Mahindra Scorpio car with gelatin sticks was found parked near "Antilia", the multi-storey residence of Ambani, in south Mumbai on February 25.
In such big cases, approver makes the task easier to prove someone guilty in the court of law, says M N Singh.
An First Information Report has been registered against a senior Indian Police Service officer of Maharashtra after a model accused him of rape, police said on Thursday.
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.
The Mumbai police on Saturday chargesheeted Chennai Super Kings's former team principal Gurunath Meiyappan in the betting scandal that rocked the sixth edition of the Indian Premier League earlier this year.
The upholding of acquittal of Fahim Ansari and Sabauddin Ahmed Shaikh by the Supreme Court on Wednesday left Mumbai police's elite crime branch red faced after it linked the duo with the 26/11 attacks.
One of the rare Mumbai police officers to find a place in Time magazine for his action against the underworld, Pradip Sharma has gunned down 100 gangsters in a span of nearly 14 years.
A local Mumbai court on Thursday remanded Imran Shehzad, an alleged Lashkar-e-Tayiba operative suspected to be involved in the November 26 Mumbai terror strikes, to judicial custody till February 5.
The Mumbai police on Friday arrested big-time bookie Shobhan Mehta in connection with the IPL betting case after picking up him from Goa. The latest arrest takes the number of arrests in the case to 17.
The CCTV footage, recovered by cops immediately after murder of rationalist Narendra Dabholkar on Tuesday, has not yielded any concrete clues on the identity of the unknown assailants who gunned down the activist on a Pune bridge during a morning walk.
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.
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.
A team of the Maharashtra Anti-Terrorist Squad has visited Rajkot to collect information about hardcore criminals as part of their investigation into the July 13 serial bomb blasts in Mumbai, police sources said on Friday. The team, which arrived on Thursday, met Crime Branch officials and sought information on underworld dons Aftab Ansari, Asif Raza Khan Pathan and Fazal Ur Rehman alias Fazlu, who were named over a decade ago in the kidnapping of a local jeweller's son.
Maharashtra Home Minister R R Patil has directed the police to probe the case of the 'missing' bulletproof vest of Anti-Terror Squad chief Hemant Karkare, who died fighting terrorists during the 26/11 attacks.
Nine months after the acid attack on a Delhi resident in Mumbai that claimed her life, her neighbour was arrested for allegedly carrying out the crime as he was jealous of her career growth, police said on Friday.
The Mumbai police and the jail administration cut a sorry figure on Thursday when it was discovered that an accused in the sensational Shakti Mills compound gang-rape case had "disappeared" and could not be produced before the court but he was later found to be in prison.
A special women's court in Mumbai on Tuesday convicted a 29-year-old driver for the rape and murder of Esther Anuhya, an Andhra Pradesh-based woman software engineer in suburban Kurla here last year.
'It could be an entirely new LeT module that has entered Mumbai with the specific assignment of executing yesterday's blasts,' officials said
Gawli is still to be interrogated by policemen.
A Mumbai court on Wednesday rejected the bail plea of businessman Raj Kundra, arrested in a case of alleged creation of pornographic films and publishing them through apps, after the prosecution contended the police investigation was still on and his release at this juncture will derail the probe.
A special court has allowed the police to dispose off approximately 24 kg of RDX recovered from the 26/11 Mumbai attack target spots.The RDX will be burnt in a controlled atmosphere in the presence of a Magistrate, crime branch sources said, adding that the trial court had given permission to go ahead with the disposal.The seized explosive was placed before the court as evidence, according to Special Public Prosecutor Ujjwal Nikam.
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.
There are four accused in this case. Two of them under detention are Pawan Kumar Goenka and Pradeep Parab.
A close aide of gangster Ravi Pujari was on Saturday killed in an encounter with the police at suburban Santacruz, police said.
A bench of Justices SS Shinde and Manish Pitale also accepted the statement made by the Maharashtra government that the probe against Republic TV, other employees of ARG Outlier Media which runs all Republic TV channels, and other television channels, will be completed within 12 weeks.
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.
'Every man in the hot seat needs trusted cops to grind their axe with political opponents.' 'And that's what explains Waze's importance; him investigating the fake TRP scandal, his arrest of TV journalist Arnab Goswami, and heading the investigation into the Antilia bomb scare case.'
Four of the five accused in the August 22 gang-rape case were identified by the photojournalist and her male colleague during an identification parade held in a south Mumbai jail on Friday, police said.
An ACP-rank officer, named by former Mumbai police commissioner Param Bir Singh in his letter accusing then Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh of corruption, told an inquiry commission here on Wednesday that Sachin Waze was an "obedient" and "high-performing" officer.
The vehicle with explosives found near industrialist Mukesh Ambani's residence in south Mumbai had been stolen last week, and a letter found inside said this was only a 'glimpse' of things to come, police said on Friday.
Congress MP and member of the panel Karti Chidambaram had requested Tharoor to take up the matter and call the officials of the Information and Broadcasting Ministry before the committee to seek clarification and remedial measures.
Dismissed police official Sachin Waze on Friday told an inquiry commission here that IPS officer Param Bir Singh had advised him not to indulge in the "illegal activity of collecting money" for anyone.
Date, a 1990 Indian Police Service officer of the Maharashtra cadre who once sold newspapers in Pune to financially support his family, was honoured with the President's Police medal for gallantry for his role in what has come to be known as the 26/11 attack.
A key accused in Malvani hooch tragedy, which claimed over a hundred lives, was arrested by Ahmedabad police.
There's more trouble coming for IPL betting scandal accused Gurunath Meiyappan, an ex-official of Chennai Super Kings, and actor Vindoo Dara Singh. The police on Friday said their voice samples matched the tapped telephonic conversation in which they were purportedly discussing matches and betting activities.
Four days after the murder of Mid Day journalist J Dey, police have detained three men, believed to be members of Chhota Shakeel gang, in connection with the killing. "Three people have been detained. We are probing their role (in the case). We want to be sure (of their involvement in the crime) before jumping to a conclusion," a senior crime branch official said.The three men were believed to be working for fugitive gangster Shakeel, the right hand man of Dawood Ibrahim.
Sarfaraz alias Aman Khan has been booked for rape and cheating.
