A Central Reserve Police Force jawan of the specialised COBRA unit was killed and a Deputy Commandant injured in a fierce encounter with Maoists at Chiklam village in Jharkhand's Naxal-hit Ghatsila sub-division on Wednesday.
The 79-year-old activist also demanded an inquiry by a sitting judge of the Jharkhand high court.
He was arrested after a 'brief exchange of fire'.
Maoists opened fire at a makeshift Central Reserve Police Force camp at Bundu in Jharkhand on Tuesday night, leaving a villager dead and a jawan injured, the police said on Wednesday.Armed Maoists attacked the camp located in a school, about 50 km from Ranchi, at approximately 11 pm on Tuesday night, Deputy Inspector General of Police R K Mullick said. "While a CRPF jawan was injured in the firing, a villager was killed. The jawan is out of danger," Mullick said.
The army Captain is posted in Jammu and Kashmir and his relatives had earlier alleged that anti-national elements were behind his abduction.
Police said Friday they had arrested three people in connection with alleged extortion letters sent to Indian cricket captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni. Security was beefed up outside Dhoni's family home in Ranchi after a man claiming to be an associate of Dawood Ibrahim, the country's most wanted gangster, demanded Rs 50 lakh from the cricket star in a letter on Monday.
Dubey alleged that the tribals were arrested in connection with the June 13 incident due to pressure from the Congress and demanded a Central Bureau of Investigation probe in the case.
A woman police constable, on her way with family members to cremate her brother-in-law, was allegedly gang raped by a gang of dacoits on National Highway 75 near Jagaldaga in Latehar district of Jharkhand, police said on Saturday.
Maoists on Thursday blew up a police jeep, killing a policeman and injuring four others at Jaranga village in Jharkhand's Khunti district. Inspector-General of Police V Deshmukh said the jeep overturned under the impact of the blast. He ruled out the possibility of a landmine causing the blast. All the injured victims have been admitted to a hospital in Ranchi. The Maoists also blew up a middle school, Anant Madhya Vidyala, at Pratappur in Chatra district.
The powerful blast blew up the police gypsy killing Bundu DSP Pramod Kumar Sinha and two constables on the spot, Deputy Inspector General (DIG) of Police R K Mullick told PTI. Later, two other constables succumbed to their injuries on way to Rajendra Institute of Medical Sciences, Mullick said.
A serial blast suspect Arshad Ahmad has been picked up for questioning from a village in Bihar's East Champaran district, police said on Wednesday.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday arrived in Jharkhand to a black flag protest by Bharatiya Janata Party activists over price rise, as police arrested nearly 100 of them in Ranchi and Bokaro. Earlier, the BJP had announced that it would hold black-flag and effigy burning protests across the state to protest against the Prime Minister's visit, in view of spiraling prices. The Bokaro police picked up approximately 25 BJP activists.
The women between 32 years and 50 years were beaten to death with sticks by residents of Kanjia village late Friday night.
From assembling bombs to planting them, 10 terror operatives spread across Patna on Sunday and wreaked havoc in the city. Vicky Nanjappa reports
Farmers gathered at several national highways, key roads and some railway tracks in Punjab and Haryana on Friday morning as part of their nationwide protest against the Centre's new agri laws.
'Shatrughan Sinha's name is in the Congress's probable candidates list.'
Our relations are very old. If she thinks whatever I had said has hurt her, I express my regret for that. I will also write a letter to her, Yadav said.
10 central trade unions have called a nationwide shutdown against 'anti-worker policies' of the central government. Apart from being successful in Bengal, Kerala and NE states, the bandh has also got support from Cong leader Rahul Gandhi and Shiv Sena in Maharashtra.
Agitating farmer groups on Thursday held a four-hour nationwide 'rail roko' agitation with the railways saying there was negligible impact on services though some trains were stopped by officials at stations as a precautionary measure.
Former Jharkhand chief minister Madhu Koda, who is imprisoned in the Birsa Munda Central Jail, was allegedly beaten up on Monday by jail authorities after he went on hunger strike demanding better food in jail. He has been admitted to a hospital in Ranchi. Sources say that he could have fractured his hand.
An engineer and a supervisor of a private road construction company were abducted in Bihar's Sasaram district by armed criminals for ransom, police said on Wednesday.
The case dates back to January, 2007 when the man was arrested with an AK series assault rifle, 200 bullets, five hand grenades and a satellite phone by the Karnataka Police.
The India captain's 41st ODI century wasn't enough to prevent India from losing the third ODI against Australia by 32 runs in Ranchi, on Friday.
Richa Mishra rewrote two of her national records as she won three gold medals, while Olympics qualifier Sandeep Sejwal set another national record on the second day of the 65th Senior National Aquatic Championships in Ranchi on Thursday.
Though earlier it was suspected to be a landmine blast, later prima facie it seemed the explosives were hidden in a box which exploded during a search.
Yet another FIR has been filed against former Jharkhand chief minister Madhu Koda and 28 others by the Vigilance Bureau, accusing them of forgery and criminal conspiracy while awarding contracts to a Hyderbad-based company for rural electrification.
"Are they (JD-U) police that we have to answer them?" he shot back to another question that JD-U spokesmen have been regularly saying that Tejashwi Yadav has to come clean in the public domain.
The Union health ministry officials also said India was at the second stage as there is still no 'hard evidence' to say that there has been community transmission of the fast-spreading coronavirus, remarks which may provide anxious citizens with much needed assurance and hope.
Maoists on Monday blew up railway tracks at two different places in Jharkhand as they began a day-long strike in three states to protest price rise and corruption.
Over 600 bullets and a dozen improvised explosive devices recovered after a gunbattle.
The search operation for the officer posted in Jammu and Kashmir is being carried out jointly by the Army, Bihar police, Railway police, National Investigation Agency and the Intelligence Bureau in the Kanpur-Katihar-Delhi section, a defence spokesman said in Jammu on Thursday.
Apparently apprehending arrest, the JMM MP had on Monday applied for leave to Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee citing personal reasons.
The lynching was allegedly sparked by suspicions that the victims were child lifters.
Following are the names of some high-profile people who have been put behind the bars
Ten pilgrims including a woman were killed and over 30 injured in a stampede near the Baidyanathdham temple early on Monday.
Naxalites are suspected of being behind the attack at Balibea, 3km from Gua in West Singhbhum district.
The Sub-Divisional Judicial Magistrate of Jamtara district on Saturday had issued the warrant in the name of Soren and nine others in connection with the killing of 11 persons in Chirrudih in 1975.
Vikas Sinha, an associate of former Jharkhand Chief Minister Madhu Koda, was on Friday arrested by the Enforcement Directorate in Ranchi for his alleged role in carrying out hawala transactions and illegal investments.Sinha, brother of another associate Binod Sinha, will be produced before a local court, where the ED will seek his police remand before he is sent to the Directorate's regional headquarters in Patna.
Lalu's word is final in the RJD when even when he is serving a long jail sentence after being convicted in fodder scam cases.
Communalising law and order situations is fraught with danger; we need to tread cautiously. Interjecting a communal angle into what is purely a law and order issue does nobody good; it muddies the picture, fuels unrequited passion and distracts us from the core issue, says Vivek Gumaste.
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