Modi asked the police commissioner to speedily investigate the incident.
Congress MP Shashi Tharoor was questioned by the Special Investigation Team on Thursday for the second time in the last four weeks on the Indian Premier League controversy as also various aspects leading to the mysterious death of his wife Sunanda Pushkar.
Delhi Police Commissioner B S Bassi on Thursday said that a number of people have been questioned in connection with the Sunanda Pushkar case and more would be quizzed in the next couple of days as they seek to complete the probe as soon as possible.
The father of the Delhi gang rape victim said people should see the documentary, India's Daughter, because it "holds up a mirror to our society".
The five persons were arrested by the Crime Branch.
RIL said it had launched 'an internal probe' into its staff's detention.
After a round of questioning of Shashi Tharoor, the Delhi police on Wednesday made it clear that it will probe if the IPL angle was related to the death of his wife Sunanda Pushkar.
Scores of members of the Christian community and social activists staged a protest outside the Delhi Police headquarters in New Delhi on Tuesday morning over alleged the police inaction in the case of the fire which on Monday gutted a church in northeast Delhi's Tahirpur area.
The fresh report submitted to the police by All India Institute of Medical Sciences doctors on the reasons for the mysterious death of Sunanda Pushkar is 'inconclusive', according to the Delhi police, even as the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Congress were locked in a slanging match on the issue.
A sub-inspector was arrested and dismissed from service for allegedly raping a 23-year-old domestic help at gun point, an incident which evoked strong reactions from political parties here with AAP demanding resignation of Delhi Police chief B S Bassi.
Under attack for attempted cover up, Shoma Chaudhury, who quit as managing editor of Tehelka on Thursday, has apologised before the National Commission for Women for "lapses" in handling the case of alleged sexual assault on a woman journalist by editor of the magazine Tarun Tejpal.
Congress leader Shashi Tharoor has once again been questioned in connection with his wife Sunanda Pushkar's death and the special investigation team probing the high-profile case may summon him again.
Agitated over the alleged assault on student protesters by police, students from various universities across Delhi on Tuesday staged a protest outside police headquarters in New Delhi blocking the traffic at ITO intersection.
The Special Investigating Team probing death of Sunanda Pushkar on Thursday interrogated her husband Shashi Tharoor's domestic help on specific details such as people who met her during the 48 hours prior to her death and the injury marks on her body.
Delhi Police has served a notice to Congress MP Shashi Tharoor, asking him to join the investigation into the mysterious death of his wife Sunanda Pushkar.
Delhi Police Commissioner B S Bassi appreciated the initiative of the Aam Aadmi Party government, saying any step which helps the environment cannot be a bad thing and asserted he will ensure full implementation.
International cab-booking service Uber was banned on Monday in the national capital, a day after one of its drivers was arrested for allegedly raping a 27-year-old woman executive amid growing outrage over the incident which renewed focus on safety measures for women.
The controversial claim by head of the forensic medicine department at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences that pressure was brought upon him to manipulate the post mortem report on Shashi Tharoor's wife Sunanda Pushkar was debunked on Wednesday by the hospital in a new twist surrounding the mysterious death.
In his strongest assertion amid his ongoing tussle with the Arvind Kejriwal dispensation, top cop B S Bassi on Friday said it would be a "very unfortunate" day in the history of the capital if the Delhi Police comes under the city government and its functioning under the Centre's jurisdiction was "perfect".
Tomar was arrested around 11 am following investigation into a complaint by the bar council of Delhi.
'There is perhaps a need to pay heed to L K Advani's belief about an Emergency re-run,' says Amulya Ganguli.
JNUSU president Kanhaiya Kumar, arrested on sedition charges, has claimed that Delhi police personnel refused to arrest a person who had attacked him at the Patiala House Court premises on February 17 despite he identifying the assailant.
Under fire over women's security following the December 16, 2012 gang rape incident, Delhi Police in a landmark decision on Friday announced that chargesheets in rape cases will be filed within 20 days to ensure speedy justice to victims.
As Christians took to streets of Delhi over recent attacks on churches, Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Thursday promised to step up security at their religious places amid his assertion that any discrimination on the basis of religion will not be tolerated.
Delhi Police Commissioner B S Bassi on Monday said that the questioning of Congress MP Shashi Tharoor in connection with the death of his wife Sunanda Pushkar is "possible in the next couple of days".
In a sensational twist to the death of Shashi Tharoor's wife Sunanda Pushkar, Delhi Police on Tuesday registered a murder case on the basis of a medical report that concluded her death was unnatural and due to poisoning but nobody has been named as a suspect as yet.
Candle light vigils, prayer meetings, street plays and a series of other events on Tuesday marked two years of the brutal gang rape of a 23-year-old girl in a moving bus in the city that had triggered widespread nation-wide outrage forcing the government to enact stricter laws against sexual assault.
Curfew-like situation prevailed in East Delhi's Trilokpuri area for the third consecutive day with people not being allowed to step out of their houses though no untoward incident took place in the violence-hit locality on Monday
Investigators are now trying to ascertain as to who made these alleged forged documents and whether an organised gang is behind it.
A head constable of Delhi Police on Monday hit a woman with a brick after an altercation following which he was arrested and dismissed from service as the incident triggered widespread outrage.
The case of the death of Sunanda Pushkar, wife of Congress leader Shashi Tharoor, reached a new stage with the FBI endorsing the AIIMS report of poisoning.
The Delhi Police has lodged an FIR and secured a court order restraining the media from carrying the interview.
The petitioner has alleged that the dharna by Kejriwal and Bharti is a violation of law as they are holding constitutional posts and they cannot agitate on the streets against other constitutional authorities.
'Kanhaiya Kumar and others of his ilk are now out on bail. But what about the NIT 'anti-nationals'?' asks Amulya Ganguli.
Citing the incidents in the Jawaharlal Nehru University and the Patiala House court, the opposition led by the Congress on Thursday slammed the government in Rajya Sabha and alleged that law and order in Delhi had deteriorated
Home Minister Rajnath Singh was present at the funeral of the BSF personnel who died in the air crash on Tuesday.
Opposition parties in Parliament on Monday vociferously protested the "snooping" on Rahul Gandhi, with the government dismissing their contention saying they were making a "mountain out of what is not even a molehill", leading the Congress to walk out of Rajya Sabha.
The Delhi Police has rejected the allegation of snooping on Congress Vice-President Rahul Gandhi and said that the visit by policemen to his office was a routine practise of being in touch with the dignitaries.
The Delhi Police, which has registered a case of murder in the mysterious death of Sunanda Pushkar, will send her viscera samples to a laboratory either in Britain or the US to identify the poison including whether it could be radioactive isotopes that cannot be detected in Indian labs.
As per official data released on Friday, the national capital witnessed a whopping 200 per cent increase in crime in the last two years and Delhi Police Commissioner B S Bassi attributed the spurt to police registering all the complaints unlike in previous years.
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