Three policemen have been suspended for alleged negligence in duty, taking cognisance of videos in which a sharpshooter of Lawrence Bishnoi gang interacts with reporters while in police custody and comments on Nationalist Congress Party leader Baba Siddique's killing, officials said on Saturday.
Four persons arrested in connection with the security breach in Parliament have been charged under the anti-terror law UAPA besides sections of the Indian Penal Code, police sources said on Thursday as security agencies were on the hunt to nab the alleged mastermind.
Toyah Cordingley (24) was walking her dog on Wangetti Beach in Queensland when she was killed in October 2018.
Gangster Brijesh Singh, who was evading police for the past two decades, has been arrested from Orissa, a Delhi Police official said on Thursday.
In its chargesheet filed before a special court in New Delhi, the CBI has named Raghuvanshi and Pathak as accused in the alleged violation of the Official Secrets Act and related offences, they said.
NewsClick on Wednesday alleged in the Delhi high court that investigating agencies were abusing the process of law to subject it to criminal prosecution to create a "chilling effect".
Security has been beefed up outside the residence of Bharatiya Janata Party MP Gautam Gambhir in New Delhi after he received an alleged death threat from 'ISIS Kashmir,' officials said on Wednesday.
Gangster Lawrence Bishnoi has told investigators that his gang's members, including Canada-based Goldy Brar, hatched a conspiracy and killed Sidhu Moosewala, officials said on Friday.
According to police, Lakhwinder Singh was nabbed from Sarai Kale Khan on September 24, and Gurjeet was apprehended near ISBT Kashmiri Gate on October 13.
The Central Bureau of Investigation has arrested freelance journalist Vivek Raghuvanshi and former Navy commander Ashish Pathak for allegedly collecting sensitive information on defence matters and passing them on to foreign intelligence agencies, officials said on Wednesday.
The Delhi police has registered a case based on a complaint by a senior Territorial Army officer that a fake website of the organisation has been created by "scamsters" who are carrying out a fake recruitment drive using the online platform, officials said on Tuesday.
Soon after the Delhi police recovered an improvised explosive device from the city's Ghazipur flower market on Friday, the special cell said that the suspects had done a detailed recce of the spot where the explosive was recovered.
"The CBI lab sent a report to Delhi police's Special Cell on June 8 saying the raw footage was authentic," a police source said.
The Punjab police on Wednesday said it will question jailed gangster Lawrence Bishnoi after bringing him to the state in connection with the murder of Punjabi singer Sidhu Moosewala.
Neetu Dabodia carried a cash reward of Rs 1 lakh and was wanted in over 50 cases of murder, extortion and kidnapping.
Three suspected shooters were nabbed in Punjab's Patiala district early on Friday in connection with the killing of a Dera Sacha Sauda follower a day ago, the police said.
Raids are being conducted by the Special Cell of Delhi Police at several locations across the city.
The mystery over missing actor Gurucharan Singh, who played Roshan Singh Sodhi's character in TV serial Taarak Mehta Ka Ooltah Chashmah, has deepened as the Delhi police has found that the actor was using 27 separate email accounts in the fear of being "surveillanced" by someone.
Two suspected operatives of a jihadi organisation, who were allegedly planning to carry out attacks in the national capital during Christmas and New Year, were detained by the special cell of the Delhi police on Tuesday.
Osama and Shabbir were intercepted by a team of the Delhi police's special cell, which had intelligence input that a consignment of arms and explosives from Jammu and Kashmir was to be delivered to one of the two militants.
A suspected Lashkar-e-Tayiba terrorist was arrested in New Delhi on Tuesday and explosives were recovered from him, police said.
The conspiracy was unearthed when the Special Cell of Delhi police received an intelligence input about two suspected Lashkar-e-Tayiba operatives, identified as Dujana and Ukasha, who allegedly infiltrated in Jammu and Kashmir through Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, following which an FIR was registered, said a police source.
About 2 kg RDX, timers and Rs 4.5 lakh cash were recovered from them.
Three people including gangster Jitendra Gogi were killed in a shootout on Friday at Delhi's Rohini court, the police said.
The special cell of Delhi Police arrested Mohammad Salman Khurshid, Abdul Rehman and Mohammad Akbar Hussain from the Red Fort area on Tuesday, Joint Commissioner of Police (Special Cell) Karnal Singh told PTI.
In total, 17 people, including Telangana Chief Minister and Congress leader Revanth Reddy, have been issued notices to appear before the Delhi police's investigation officer (in connection with the case. Sources, however, said Reddy is "unlikely" to join the probe and may send his representative.
A 9 mm pistol along with 10 live cartridges, a 30 mm pistol with nine live cartridges, three police uniforms of Punjab Police and two mobile handsets along with a dongle and SIM card have been seized from their possession, police said.
The Delhi police on Tuesday filed its charge sheet against four accused persons in connection with Bharatiya bleader Arun Jaitley's phone tapping case.
It was also learnt that Gautam Navlakha, a shareholder in NewsClick, remained involved in anti-Indian and unlawful activities such as actively supporting banned Naxal organisations and having anti-national nexus with Gulam Nabi Fai, an agent of Pakistan's ISI, it stated.
A sixth arrest has been made in the Parliament security breach case -- Mahesh Kumawat from Rajasthan's Nagaur who was allegedly in contact with the other accused for the last two years for hatching the conspiracy and had destroyed their mobile phones to get rid of the evidence, police said on Saturday.
Asif Raees alias Nadeem Ahmed alias Kabir Malhotra, a Pakistani national, was nabbed by sleuths of the Special Cell in Yamuna Vihar area of Northeast Delhi on Monday night.
Singh and another accused in the case -- Irfan Shafi Mir -- were granted the relief by the court in a case filed by special cell of Delhi Police, noting that the probe agency failed to file chargesheet within 90 days from his arrest, as prescribed under law.
Intelligence agencies have alerted police on the possibility of four to five men entering the national capital with an intention to carry out a terror attack.
Police forces of several states were on the look out for him.
The sleuths have seized defence-related classified documents and sketches of vital installations from them.
The Delhi Police's Special Cell on Tuesday busted a Pakistan-organised terror module with the arrest of six men, including two ISI trained terrorists.
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has begun questioning Tahawwur Hussain Rana, the mastermind behind the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks, to uncover the larger conspiracy behind the deadly strikes. Rana, who was extradited from the US, is being held at the NIA headquarters in New Delhi. The interrogation is focused on his possible connection with the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) and his suspected links with the Pakistani spy agency Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI).
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal was brought to Tihar Jail in New Delhi on Monday after a city court sent him to judicial custody till April 15, officials said.
"The special cell got information from the control room and came here to nab the men. From the information we have now, two persons were killed and two of the special cell officers have sustained bullet injuries," Deputy Commissioner of Police (south) HGS Dhaliwal. Though the area falls under his jurisdiction, the operation was carried out by the special cell of the Delhi police, which handles high profile criminal and terrorism cases.
Former BCCI anti-corruption unit chief Neeraj Kumar found superstar Virat Kohli's work ethic "matchless" during his tenure with the powerful cricket board.
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