The accused, who duped the woman of Rs 6.60 lakh during the ordeal between September 5 and 8, continued to send messages even after her death on September 8.
Bangalore police commissioner Shankar Bidari was vociferous in defence of his colleagues who used force to disperse the huge crowd that came to purchase tickets for the India-England World Cup match in Bangalore on Thursday.
The Bangalore police may have scotched the chances of a successful probe by failing to stick to the standard operating procedure while probing the recent blast outside the Bharatiya Janata Party's office in Bengaluru.
The Bangalore police on Thursday claimed that they have busted a major module of the Lashkar-e-Tayiba and the Harkat-ul-Jihadi- Islami. Eleven suspects, five from Bangalore and six from Hubli, have been detained and one of them is a journalist with a leading daily in Karnataka, said the police.Director General of Police Lalrokhuma Pachau told the media that the suspects had planned a state-wide operation in which they were going to target Members of Parliament.
Nasir, also known as Ghouse, revealed that the IISC attacker was around 6-feet-tall and of wheatish complexion. Although he did not reveal the name of the man, he said that three persons had come to Bangalore to carry out the attack.
The Bangalore police have warned the touring Pakistan cricket team to stay indoors after practice sessions and not to venture out in the open due to security reasons.
In an unseemly friction in Bangalore police top brass, a senior IPS officer, accused of clicking "objectionable" pictures of a woman in a coffee shop, has filed a complaint against city police chief accusing him of atrocity under the SC/ST Act.
Around 17,000 policemen, apart from the Rapid Action Force, are patrolling the streets of Bangalore from where the exodus of North-East Indians has been the most. Elaborate security arrangements are in place to ensure that no untoward incident occurs, Commissioner of Police, Bangalore city, Jyothi Prakash Mirji told rediff.com.
The team subjected parents of Dr Sabeel Ahmed and Kafeel Ahmed to questioning on Friday.
It had declared Mallya a proclaimed offender for evading summons in a FERA violation case after noting that he had failed to appear despite repeated summonses.
A five member team of the National Security Guard has commenced its investigation into the Bangalore blast case.
Bangalore police have arrested a man who is allegedly responsible for vandalising several churches in Bangalore and Tamil Nadu in the last five years.
The Bangalore police have obtained the custody of Buela Sam, the lady from Gujarat who tried to enter the Indian Space Research Organisation on a fake identification card.
A court in Bulandshahr (Uttar Pradesh) has asked the Bangalore Police to ensure the presence of Kingfisher Airlines chief Vijay Mallya before it on October 31 on a pilot's petition alleging that the company was withholding his dues.
The Bangalore police may have to wait a while longer before they get the contents of the hard disc belonging to Khafeel Ahmed, the suspect in the UK terror plot who died a month back.
The Bangalore police have released the sketch of a man suspected of carrying out the recent blasts near Chinnaswamy stadium on April 17. Fourteen people were injured in two blasts near the stadium barely an hour before the IPL match between Mumbai Indians Bangalore Royal Challengers. The police later found two live bombs near the stadium, which were promptly defused. The suspect is 5.5 feet tall, lean and has a wheatish complexion, said Police Commissioner Shankar Bidri.
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The Bangalore police, which interrogated the chief of Indian Mujahideen, Yasin Bhatkal, for two days recently, found him a tough customer who'd make the most unexpected demands of them. Vicky Nanjappa reports.
Three weeks after the brutal attack on a woman bank official at an unguarded ATM kiosk in Bangalore, the assailant was still on the run even as police said they were making "all efforts" to nab him.
The Gulf link to terror in India seems to be getting stronger. While the Bangalore police have managed to get details of four persons from the Gulf who were financing and facilitating terror operations, they have now uncovered a Gulf link to the 26/11 Mumbai attacks too.
Abdul Sattar, a resident of Malappuram in Kerala who was arrested by the Hyderabad police for alleged links with the Indian Mujahideen, was on Wednesday handed over to the Bangalore police for questioning in connection with the bomb blasts there.
The Bangalore police, acting on information provided by the military intelligence, have detained six people belonging to the banned Peoples Revolutionary Party of Kaglipak, which is based in Manipur.Bangalore Police Commissioner N Achuth Rao said on Saturday that the six persons belonging to the outfit, which was banned by the government, have over 25 cases of murder and abduction registered against them.
A senior Bangalore officer told rediff.com that they would not carry out an inquiry against Sabeel, as he is not wanted in any case. There is also no information about him being linked with any terrorist outfit in India. The order of the London court makes this clear, the officer also said.
Khafeel had been admitted to hospital after the UK terror plot with 90 per cent burn injuries. He died in hospital on Friday.
The Bangalore police on Sunday arrested a school's skating instructor in connection with the rape of a six year old. The police said that a laptop seized from the accused also contained child pornography and videos of school children being raped.
It is said the hard disks contain jihadi material used to brainwash and recruit youth.
Amit Mishra has been charged with verbally and physically assaulting a woman.
How old was Ajmal Kasab when he was recruited into the Lashkar-e-Tayiba to carry out the 26/11 attacks? Going by an interrogation report prepared by the Bangalore Police, Kasab was 16 when he was roped into the LeT.
The arrested has been identified as Abdul Rehman, the sources added.
Complying with an Election Commission directive, the Bharatiya Janata Party government in Karnataka today transferred Bangalore Police Commissioner B G Jyothiprakash Mirji ahead of the May 5 assembly elections.
The probe into the assassination plan against certain right-wing political leaders and journalists, allegedly hatched by some Lashkar-e-Tayiba operatives, seems to have fizzled out.
The police on Friday arrested two more people for their alleged involvement in blasts outside the Bharatiya Janata Party's office in the city. Vayalar Hakim and Azghar Ali, who were picked up by the Tamil Nadu police, hail from Coimbatore.
Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde on Thursday ruled out reinvestigation in 2010 Pune's German Bakery blast case, saying there was no need for it.
The Bangalore police investigating the blasts case near the Bharatiya Janata Party office in the city say that the explosion was aimed at causing a sensation and also to show in poor light the police department.
The spotlight is on Hubli -- the commercial capital of northern Karnataka -- where a major terror module that was planning the assassinations of several high-profile personalities was recently busted. Five of the terror suspects arrested by the Bangalore police in connection with the plot are from Hubli.
'Teaching lessons is the objective behind every school.' 'For the moment, a state seems intent to teach a lesson -- that students of Classes 4, 5 and 6 can wage war against the mighty Indian nation,' says Krishna Prasad.
The wife of a French diplomat, facing charges of raping their four-year old daughter, on Friday alleged police was subjecting her to hostile interrogation in a bid to make her withdraw the complaint and sought removal of the investigating officer handling the case.
The Karnataka high court on Thursday rejected the bail plea filed by Abdul Nasar Madani, an accused in the Bangalore blasts case. The leader of the People's Democratic Party from Kerala, who was picked up by the Bangalore police, had moved the high court to seek bail on various grounds.
The terror suspects arrested by the Bangalore police had planned to target a top leader of Karnataka's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party with a view to creating political instability in the state, police sources said on Saturday.
Intensifying the crackdown on the "terror module" busted in Karnataka, police have arrested five more suspects in Maharashtra and Andhra Pradesh, as a probe showed that a nuclear installation and several defence establishments were targeted for attack.
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