Those who were held guilty included Safdar Nagori, Javed Ahmed and Atikur Rehman. Among those acquitted were Mohammad Irfan, Nasir Ahmad and Shakeel Ahmed.
At least 14 people were killed when a Bolero car carrying them was rammed by a speeding Bhopal-Howrah train in Jharkhand in the wee hours of Tuesday morning.
The searches are linked to suspected movement of hawala money during the ongoing polls season and tax evasion, they said.
Madhya Pradesh police said violence in Bhind and Morena districts was 'sponsored'.
The Karnataka high court on Friday said it has called for a report from the state government on the role of radical organisations behind the hijab controversy in the state.
Bishnoi, a resident of Jorhat who studies in Bhopal, is also the creator of the 'Bulli Bai' app on the platform GitHub as well as the main Twitter account holder of 'Bulli Bai', police said.
Pandey is living in New Delhi along with his family.
The incident comes days after a 19-year-old college student was allegedly gang-raped in Bhopal, which triggered public outrage against the police.
The Congress needs to reorganise itself at the grassroots, infuse younger blood, and have more boots on the ground. Just offering freebies is not the answer anymore. Leadership matters, asserts Ramesh Menon.
Joshi, once a close aide of the Sadhvi before they fell out over some dispute, was shot dead in Madhya Pradesh's Dewas on December 29, 2007 in Audyogik Police station area.
With the Madhya Pradesh police planning to meet him in connection with the death of Right To Information activist Shehla Masood in Bhopal last month, Bharatiya Janata Party Member of Parliament Tarun Vijay on Friday said the activist was a good friend and that he is willing to offer all possible assistance to the investigating agencies.
The police have set up five teams to investigate the murder of RTI activist Shehla Masood, a senior officer said on Wednesday, but the opposition Congress has demanded that the case be transferred to the Central Bureau of Investigation. "We have constituted five teams to probe the murder," said newly-appointed Senior Superintendent of Police, Bhopal, Yogesh Choudhry. Shehla was found shot dead inside her car in front of her house in the Koh-e-Fiza locality on Tuesday.
The joint statement was issued by retired DGPs Julio Ribeiro, Prakash Singh, P K Hormis Tharakan, Kamal Kumar, Jacob Punnoose, Sanjeev Dayal, Jayanto Choudhury and N Ramachandran.
He also said that a decision regarding reopening of pre-university and degree colleges will be taken after assessing the situation.
The motive behind the murder of RTI activist Shehla Masood continues to be shrouded in mystery, even after investigators arrested three people, including an interior designer.While the Central Bureau of Investigation arrested interior designer Zahida Pervez and Shakib Ali from Bhopal, the Uttar Pradesh police has apprehended one person from Kanpur.
A local Bhopal court on Friday issued a non-bailable arrest warrant against Congress leader Digvijay Singh in an alleged recruitment scam at assembly secretariat which took place when he was the chief minister of Madhya Pradesh.
A teenaged boy was arrested from Indore for allegedly creating a fake profile of Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on popular social networking site Facebook, and uploading cartoons and controversial photos on it.
Delhi, Uttarakhand and Maharashtra on Monday confirmed bird flu cases, adding to the list of seven states -- Kerala, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh, Haryana, Gujarat and Uttar Pradesh -- which had already reported avian deaths due to the disease.
'If you question the police you become an anti-national and that is ridiculous.' 'Either you say we live by the Constitution or you say the State will not follow the Constitution.'
Home Minister Rajnath Singh also said that the National Investigation Agency would probe the cases, including the Lucknow encounter in which an alleged terrorist linked to a train blast was killed.
A special court in Ahmedabad on Friday awarded death sentence to 38 convicts in the 2008 Ahmedabad serial blasts case, which had claimed 56 lives and left over 200 injured.
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In and around November 2007, office bearers and functionaries of SIMI, a banned organisation under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act 1967, entered into a criminal conspiracy in Choral, Indore, Madhya Pradesh to conduct training camps for their active cadres.
Bhopal Mukhiya of JAK Rifles, who is posted at Uri, was taken into custody after two hand grenades were recovered from his possession during search at the main gate of the airport
The Supreme Court ordered a Central Bureau of Investigation probe in the massive admission and recruitment scandal in Madhya Pradesh that will also encompass deaths of people related to it as more skeletons tumbled out of the Vyapam cupboard with yet another witness reported dead.
Thakur, who is one of the seven accused in the case being probed by the NIA, appeared before the court on Monday. On Tuesday, Special Judge P R Sitre granted exemption to Thakur after her lawyer J P Mishra filed a written application, citing the MP's difficulty in travelling in Mumbai regularly due to health and security concerns.
Tigmanshu Dhulia's earthy touches, perverse humour, and queasy depiction of the upscale and underbelly revels in pulpy and devious twists, notes Sukanya Verma.
The then Deputy Superintendent of Police Crime Branch, J P Pali on Tuesday said in the court that underworld don Abu Salem and others have procured passports from the Bhopal office on the basis of fake documents.
Raking up the issue of 1984 riots, Bharatiya Janata Party leader Arun Jaitley on Monday alleged that those guilty for the "state sponsored" violence still remain unpunished.
The superintendent of Ghaziabad railway station has received an anonymous letter threatening to target political leaders including Prime Minister-designate Narendra Modi, Bharatiya Janata Party leader L K Advani and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav, and attack railway stations and temples.
The clothes of the slain SIMI suspects killed in the encounter have been sent for forensic test.
Mandsaur, the epicentre of the agitation, has remained relatively peaceful even as farmer protests have spilled over to new areas of MP.
The Congress also accused the Madhya Pradesh government of suppressing the voice of farmers.
Praveen Kakkar has alleged that the Income Tax raids at his premises were politically motivated, and claimed nothing objectionable was found against him in the two-day operation.
Three fresh cases have been registered by the Central Bureau of Investigation in connection with multi-crore rupee Vyapam scam.
A handler of Pakistan's Intelligence Operative and one Border Security Force serving officer have been arrested.
IG ATS Aseem Arun confirmed that the slain terror suspect was an active member of the ISIS.
Special NIA Judge V S Padalkar last month directed all the accused, including Thakur, to appear before the court at least once a week.
Chouhan met some farmer leaders on Saturday, but failed to reach a compromise.
