Two former hardcore members of banned terror outfit Al-Umma have been identified as the masterminds behind the plot to target the convoy of Bharatiya Janata Party leader L K Advani during his yatra near in Madurai and a manhunt is on to nab them, Special Investigation Team officials said.
The drastic move on Tuesday night followed soon after police announced the transfer of a DIG, who till recently was the senior superintendent of police in Kanpur.
The SC said it appeared that the entire test and the system was tainted.
16 weapons, including 315 bore and 12 bore guns, were recovered from the spot.
A jawan of the special task force of state police was killed in an encounter with the Naxals in Chhattisgarh's insurgency-hit Sukma district on Saturday. The encounter took place at Kondre village under Gadiras police station limits, 400 km from Raipur, Additional Superintendent of Police Santosh Singh told PTI.
Over 100 personnel from Sri Lanka's elite Special Task Force on Friday raided the office of former army chief and defeated opposition presidential candidate General Sarath Fonseka in Colombo."I don't know what they are looking for. They have also questioned the staff," said a close aide of Fonseka, who was trounced by incumbent Mahinda Rajapaksa in the January 26 presidential polls.
'Dubey was a desperate criminal.' 'I don't discount the possibility of him trying to disarm the cops and escape.'
The Uttar Pradesh police on Monday claimed to have made a major breakthrough in its anti-Maoist tirade after the arrest of 10 alleged Naxals from different parts of the state over the last 24 hours.
Nearly 450 kg of explosives were seized by the Special Task Force of Bihar police, from two places in Gaya district, in the wee hours of Thursday.Acting on a tip off, police raided a shop at Kaulakhshni area in Gaya and seized 29 gunny bags containing explosives, Superintendent of Police S M Khopade said. The STF also raided a house under Delha police station in the district and recovered 70 sacks of explosive materials, Khopde said.
Three persons, including an Inter Services Intelligence agent from Pakistan, were arrested by Madhya Pradesh Special Task force for allegedly passing on sensitive information about the Indian Army, a senior officer said on Sunday.
The first 25 minutes of Kannada film Kempa raises a lot of expectations. Unfortunately, the rest of the film -- except the 20 minutes -- follows the usual trend of the underworld masala films.
In a major breakthrough, the Uttar Pradesh police have taken into custody a cyber cafe owner at Sahibabad in Ghazaibad district of the National Capital region (NCR) from where the e-mail claiming the responsibility for Tuesday's serial blasts in Jaipur was sent by the militant outfit Indian Mujahideen. The Ghaziabad police confirmed the news of taking Madhukhar Mishra and his son into custody for interrogation.
In fact news of his death started trickling in a few days after the twin blasts in Hyderabad. But the Intelligence Bureau said that it was a ploy by their counterparts in Pakistan to mislead investigations. While Bilal's death is more or less confirmed now, Indian intelligence agencies feel he was killed due to professional rivalry.
Both were engaged in spying for the ISI and a number of documents related to Indian army were recovered from their possession, he said.
The Bihar police have arrested a Central Reserve Police Force assistant commandant in Gaya district on Thursday night, on charges of leaking information to Maoist guerillas and for his nexus with them, police sources have said.
Key documents related to the seven-year-old scam go missing from medical college in Gwalior.
"The Maoists blew up a cement-laden truck near Kapsi, about 250 km from the state capital, by triggering a landmine, killing three CSEB employees, including the truck's driver," a police source in Narayanpur told PTI.
The Special Task Force of Uttar Pradesh police has arrested an active member of the Munir gang wanted in the murder case of National Investigation Agency officer Tanzil Ahmed.
The onus for ordering a CBI probe into the Vyapam scam now rests with Supreme Court after the Madhya Pradesh high court on Wednesday deferred hearing on a state government's plea for an inquiry by the central agency, saying the apex court would hear similar petitions on Thursday.
Bhatt, president (Manufacturing) of the Company's Pithampur plant, reached Indore on Sunday morning after being rescued from a makeshift mud hut from Natua Ka Pura ravines of Chambal area in Morena district on Satuday night. He was abducted by armed persons when he was returning home to Indore from Gwalior, in his Toyota Corolla, on January 18.
Senior executive of pharma major Nicholas Piramal Ashwini Bhatt and his driver, who were kidnapped on January 18, were traced by the Special Task Force of Madhya Pradesh Police along MP-UP border on Saturday.
Lakdawala had reportedly taken a "contract" to kill the two Bollywood personalities
STF sleuths recovered one AK-47 rifle, a Chinese pistol, about 9 kg of RDX, besides a large quantity of ammunition from their possession.
"Prime facie it seems that Tiwari was murdered due to his controversial statement made in 2015. There is a possibility," the DGP said as he ruled out any terror angle.
Police Special Task Force commandos repulsed an attack against their Pullumalai base on Saturday morning and inflicted heavy losses on the guerrillas, an STF official said.
Gupta said he would be sending a report to Railways headqaurters in New Delhi, which would take a decision on fixing fresh dates for the exams.
The cleric was taken into custody on Sunday night based on reports of suspicious activities in the past.
Madhya Pradesh Backward Class Commission member and BJP leader Gulab Singh Kirar has been suspended by the party.
The Chhattisgarh government will take up reconstruction of houses and provide basic needs, like hospital, school and community centres, in the villages it proposes to adopt, Chief Minister Raman Singh said.
Three men, who survived the April 6 'encounter' in the Seshachalam forests, give crucial evidence to the National Human Rights Commission on how their friends and family members were wrongly detained and later shot dead.
Yadav said the killing was the fallout of a gang war.
The security forces did not suffer any casualty in the encounter.
The STFs will be on the lines of the Tamil Nadu and Karnataka STF that killed forest brigand Veerappan.
The intelligence input was as specific as it gets -- four persons, including Veerappan, are moving in an ambulance on their way to a hospital.
The STF had captured Veerappan and his three associates two days before they were actually killed, human rights activists claimed.
They reportedly helped the brigand during the abduction episode of Nagappa.
Karnataka Chief Minister S M Krishna thinks so. He said the forest brigand would be captured any time 'before or after election'. \n\n
Ahead of Home Minister Rajnath Singh's visit to Chhaittisgarh on Saturday, security forces have recovered two powerful tiffin bombs from Naxal-hit Sukma district's Dornapal region.
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