The CBI in its report had alleged that Thakur is an influential person and a mobile phone was recovered from him inside the jail where he is currently lodged under judicial custody.
The Bihar government has challenged the high court verdict of September 30 which had quashed the notification banning consumption and sale of liquor in the state.
A POCSO court in North 24 Parganas district recently sentenced four persons to 20 years in jail and two others to 10 years in connection with the case of the woman who is now 22 years old.
Three men have been arrested by the police for allegedly raping a minor in a village in Bihar's Saran district.
Former Union minister and Lok Janshakti Party supremo Ram Vilas Paswan was arrested along with dozens of party leaders in Patna on Monday, during a 'Jail Bharo Abhiyan' to protest against failure of Nitish Kumar-led government in Bihar.
In a major explosives haul in Bihar, the police on Saturday seized 6,000 kg of gelatine in Nawada district from a truck bound for Naxalite-hit districts in the state and arrested seven persons.
The arrest of Kafeel Akthar, an alleged Indian Mujahideen operative, by the Karnataka police in Bihar has broken into a full-fledged war between the two states, reports Vicky Nanjappa
The IMA has called off its indefinite strike in view of the rescue.
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'Is this how you plan to run India? Is this how you plan to save India?' 'If this is your plan, then what happened in Manipur will start happening all over the country.'
The arrest came barely a few hours after a Bhagalpur court rejected the anticipatory bail plea of Shashwat against whom an arrest warrant was issued on March 24.
Four suspected Maoists carrying 300 kg ammonium nitrate, a chemical used in manufacturing explosives, were on Friday arrested from Chakai in Bihar's Jamui district bordering Jharkhand, said the police. Acting on a tip-off, the police intercepted a vehicle coming from Jasidih in Jharkhand and seized six sacks, each containing 50 kg of the chemical.The chemical was probably being taken to Charka Pathar in Jharkhand for the local Maoists, sources said.
The arrest of Yasin Bhatkal comes as a huge relief to the Bihar police, who expect to now crackdown down on active terror units in the state, reports Vicky Nanjappa.
The local boys used to harass girls at a government residential school.
Making the arrest of Indian Mujahideen commander Yasin Bhatkal public has resulted in operatives from the Mangalore and Udupi sleeper cells, who worked directly under him, going underground, reports Vicky Nanjappa
As many as 71 spies were arrested by security forces from different parts of the country in the last four years, Lok Sabha was informed on Tuesday.
The police rescued the boy from a house under Harpur Pusa police station while acting on the information obtained from the interrogation of eight people who were arrested earlier.
Rocky, son of suspended Janata Dal-United MLC Manorama Devi and alleged history-sheeter Bindi Yadav, is accused of shooting and killing Aditya Sachdeva, a Class XII student who was driving his Maruti car, for overtaking his SUV on May 7 this year near Gaya.
Police, however, said a link between the social media post and the assault has not been established yet.
The RJD leader was arrested just before he left for Siwan. There is a ban on his entry there.
Some ex-MLAs from Punjab, too, had received similar threats from these numbers. The callers spoke to them in Mumbai accent and in Punjabi, the IGP said.
Upping the ante against Amit Shah after his "fireworks in Pakistan" remark, Janata Dal-United and the Congress on Friday approached the Election Commission demanding that the Bharatiya Janata Party chief be barred from entering Bihar for "inciting communal tension" till the election process ends.
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Non-bailable warrant issued against the Siwan MP following his failure to appear before the court despite several summons for framing charges in connection with an abduction case.
'Harassment' is the objective, not detention.
The Bihar police have lodged 30 FIRs against thousands of persons, both named and unidentified, and arrested 17 people in connection with the recent violence and arson in Bihar's Madhubani district. Madhubani Superintendent of Police Ranjeet Kumar Mishra said on Thursday that the 30 FIRs were lodged at Town, Khajauli, Kaluwahi, Jai Nagar, Basopatti and Jai Nagar GRP police stations.
The CBI has booked officers and employees of the shelter home.
Chapra Superintendent of Police Sanjay Singh told rediff.com on Friday that bus driver Pramod Kumar, conductor Raj Kumar Singh and khalasi Kedar Singh were arrested.
Two deaths due to heart attack were also reported from polling stations in Madhubani and Darbhanga districts.
The state government has introduced a new, more prohibition stringent law
A youth was on Sunday arrested at Bhabuaara village in Bihar's Madhubani district in connection with the July 11 Mumbai serial blasts.
Bihar Public Service Commission chairman Ramsinghasan Singh and eight others have been arrested.
The Shiv Sena today dared the government to arrest party chief Bal Thackeray after a non-bailable arrest warrant was issued by a Bihar court against the Sena supremo for allegedly making uncharitable and inflammatory remarks against Biharis in party mouthpiece 'Saamna'.
The Bihar police have arrested a Central Reserve Police Force assistant commandant in Gaya district on Thursday night, on charges of leaking information to Maoist guerillas and for his nexus with them, police sources have said.
Three people were killed in a Maoist attack in a Bihar town, police officials said on Thursday night.The three people were killed when armed Maoists attacked a medical store in Munger district. However, the owner of the medical store escaped unhurt, police sources said.According to police sources, frightened local residents told them that over 100 armed Maoists attacked the medical store.
Trouble erupted in Godapur village under the Town police station area, where an idol was found vandalised, following which the members of two communities indulged in heavy stone-pelting, District Magistrate Kaushal Kumar said.
