Severe cyclonic storm Michaung crossed south Andhra Pradesh coast close to Bapatla district between 12.30 pm and 2.30 pm on Tuesday with maximum gales of up to 90-100 km per hour speed, said an Amaravati Meteorological Centre official.
Punjab NRI Affairs Minister Kuldeep Singh Dhaliwal Thursday said the state government will provide free legal assistance to around 700 Indian students who are facing deportation from Canada.
Security was strengthened in Pathankot and Gurdaspur especially Batala town with police along with army and Border Security Forces conducting massive checking operation.
Recalling that he had already informed the House that the government would not make any compromises in case of allegations of violation of human rights during police custody, Stalin said he had ordered the suspension of ASP Balveer Singh accordingly.
The panel said that vacant posts in the CBI are not being filled up at the required pace and recommended that "every effort should be made to fill up vacancies at the earliest".
Jammu and Kashmir Director General of Police Dilbag Singh on Thursday directed officers to take stringent action against harbourers and overground workers of terrorists to end terrorism in the Union territory.
A six-member special team comprising five from the Central Bureau of Investigation and one from the Income Tax department was on Thursday constituted by the Supreme Court to examine the contents of tapped telephonic conversations of corporate lobbyist Niira Radia with politicians, corporate honchos and others.
SIT chief RK Raghavan said that his team had arrested Erda in connection with the 2002 Gulbarg society riot case. Erda was posted at Meghaninagar police station during the 2002 riots and was incharge of the Gulbarg case, SIT member, Joint Commissioner of Police, Ashish Bhatia said
'I have saluted thousands of senior officers during my 26 years of service, but saluting my own daughter made me very happy.'
The PMG was announced by the Union home ministry on the occasion of the 74th Republic Day, being celebrated on January 26 (Thursday).
The team will go into all the aspects and probe the incident till the CBI takes over the probe, the officer said.
This video establishes that the meeting of those accused of the Umesh Pal murder case took place in the jail and it will be probed if the conspiracy for the same hatched inside the district jail, a senior police officer said.
Sources claimed 48-year-old Soren was "evasive" in his replies during his questioning and hence was taken into custody under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act.
The Central Bureau of Investigation has arrested one more police officer in connection with the alleged fake encounter of Ishrat Jahan and three others in 2004, officials of the agency said. The CBI on Saturday evening arrested Police Inspector of Special Operation Group, Gandhinagar, Bharat Patel in the case. He was produced on Sunday before the court, along with suspended Deputy Superintendent of Police Tarun Barot, who was also arrested on Saturday.
Some police encounters that stunned India.
Incidents of arson and vandalism were reported on Saturday after stones were pelted at the rally when it was passing through a Muslim-dominated locality, according to police.
Police personnel committing serious offences, infringing the fundamental rights of citizens, would attract dismissal from service too, the Madras high court has said.
On Monday, another accused Meeran Haider also applied to the restoration of inmate daily phone call facilities.
The Karnataka police have picked up 17 persons in connection with the incident in which a pub was attacked and girls assaulted allegedly by members of the Shri Rama Sena on Saturday evening. Cases of assault have been booked against all the persons who have been arrested.
The people of West Bengal have lost faith in the state police and therefore their demand for deployment of central forces, Nayak said.
The PCB security team expressed "concerns" over the condition of certain areas of the Green Park stadium
A self-styled divisional commander of the Hizbul Mujahideen was killed along with his bodyguard as security forces foiled an infiltration attempt and a conspiracy by the proscribed outfit to revive its activities in Jammu and Kashmir's Poonch district early on Monday, officials said.
Six of the rescued labourers were rushed to the Katni district hospital, located about 30 km from the spot, via a 'green corridor', they said.
After visiting those being treated at Villupuram government medical college hospital, Chief Minister MK Stalin told reporters Villupuram that investigation into the matter would be transferred to the CB-CID and he assured tough action.
President Pratibha Patil has conferred police medals on sixteen officers of the country's premier investigative agency, the Central Bureau of Investigation
The SIT headed by Monika Bhardwaj submitted the charge sheet on Friday.
Mann also asked the vigilance bureau to investigate the wealth amassed by the police officer through alleged "drug money".
A police cavalcade carrying gangster-politician Atiq Ahmed left for the Sabarmati Central Jail in Gujarat on Tuesday evening, hours after he was sentenced to rigorous life imprisonment in a 2006 kidnapping case by a court in Prayagraj in Uttar Pradesh, a senior official said.
In another embarrassment for the Communist Party of India (Marxist), a party state committee member M V Jayarajan reportedly abused a special police team questioning his namesake, the Kannur district CPM secretary, in connection with the murder of an India Union Muslim League activist on February 20.
After the horrific murder of a tailor in Udaipur sparked outrage in the entire state, the Rajasthan government on Tuesday announced the imposition of Section 144 of Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC) in all the districts for the next one month.
The court converted Naidu's four-week interim medical bail in this case into absolute bail and ordered the former chief minister's release on regular bail, considering his age, old age-related ailments, non-flight risk and other reasons.
A three-member commission probing the encounter of gangster Vikas Dubey has given a clean chit to police, stating their version of events about his death were supported by evidence.
The Central Bureau of Investigation has taken over the investigation of four distinct cases from the Assam police, all connected with the death of the state police sub-inspector Junmoni Rabha last month in a suspected road accident, according to officials.
The members of the farmers' unions while on their way to the protest site removed barricades put up by police and forcibly entered the road leading to the 'dharna'.
'The main accused was acquitted by the court while the sentence awarded to the others is less. They should have been given strict punishment'
Iltija, 35, moved the Jammu and Kashmir high court in February after her application for a passport was not cleared.
Marak, a former militant leader, had gone absconding following a police raid -- which started Friday night and ran till Saturday morning -- at the farmhouse at Tura in Meghalaya's West Garo Hills district.
Senior Central Bureau of Investigation official Partho Sarathi Bose, arrested by the agency in a graft case in Kolkata, has been remanded to police custody till January two by a special judge in New Delhi.Bose, a Deputy Superintendent of Police in the CBI's Kolkata branch, was arrested by the agency after being caught allegedly accepting a bribe of Rs 50,000 from a truck driver on December 28.The CBI official's arrest has also become a political talking point.
Of the five injured, he said, two were in critical condition and admitted to the ICU of the government medical college in Jabalpur.
One of the men held earlier for the crime is an alleged sex offender who targeted children in recent years.
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