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.
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 Lok Sabha member from Dakshina Kannada met family members of Krishnappa, a BJP worker who was allegedly hacked to death, while his wife and son were grievously injured in the attack after they protested against bursting of crackers outside their house in Bengaluru Rural district's Hoskote on Sunday.
The man was caught from near the Aluva bridge on Thursday evening where he was drinking alcohol. The suspect attempted to escape from the police by jumping into the nearby river and swimming away, but was caught with the help of local residents and pulled out of the water.
The RJD leader was arrested just before he left for Siwan. There is a ban on his entry there.
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.
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.
'They are afraid that if they approach a police station for filing a complaint they might themselves get arrested under some random charges.'
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.
The local boys used to harass girls at a government residential school.
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.
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.
'The only thing that makes Nitish Kumar acceptable to Biharis, to the Mahagatbandhan allies, is the BJP.'
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.
A youth was on Sunday arrested at Bhabuaara village in Bihar's Madhubani district in connection with the July 11 Mumbai serial blasts.
Police, however, said a link between the social media post and the assault has not been established yet.
Bihar Public Service Commission chairman Ramsinghasan Singh and eight others have been arrested.
Pandit, who was appointed as the JNU VC in February last year, said some people opposed her decision to put the national flag and Prime Minister Narendra Modi's photo on the varsity premises.
Two deaths due to heart attack were also reported from polling stations in Madhubani and Darbhanga districts.
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.
The state government has introduced a new, more prohibition stringent law
In a crowded courtroom, the judge declared that Alam should be hanged to death for the killing of the girl, also from Bihar.
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'.
As opposition leaders like the Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge and Janata Dal-United supremo and Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar expressed solidarity with Kejriwal on Saturday and renewed calls to speed up opposition unity efforts to take on the BJP, officials said the CBI may ask the AAP chief about the policy formulation process, especially of the "untraceable" file which was earlier slated to be put before the Delhi Council of Ministers.
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.
The CBI has booked officers and employees of the shelter home.
Suspected Communist Party of India-Maoist guerrillas blew up railway tracks and a portion of government complex housing the office of the block development officer n Bihar's Naxal-hit Jamui district in the wee hours of Friday to protest the recent arrest of its self-styled area commander.
The sanction to hand over the plot of about 50 acres in Indri village of Nuh to the Rapid Action Force came earlier this week.
Kumar claimed that the detonator had been planted at his residence by certain influential people who wanted to kill him.
A list of legislators who have brought shame to Nitish in the last 6 months
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.
Maoist ultras blasted an additional health centre and a training centre at Pangalwa village under Darhara police station in Bihar's Munger district in the wee hours on Saturday, Superintendent of Police Sridhar Mandal said.
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin on Thursday warned the Bharatiya Janata Party not to 'provoke' the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam, saying it will not be able to 'bear the consequences' and that his party also knows 'all types of politics', escalating his attack on the saffron party after the arrest of his cabinet colleague V Senthil Balaji.
Hundreds of people took to the streets on Wednesday in Bihar's Muzaffarpur district to protest delay on the part of police to arrest a government hospital doctor who wrongly operated a woman's gallbladder instead of her leg.
Emerging from the meeting at 10 Circular Road residence of former Chief Minister Rabri Devi where he met RJD president Lalu Prasad, Raj Ballabh Yadav told reporters it was a courtesy visit to extend greetings of Durga Puja.
'Harassment' is the objective, not detention.
