The Bengaluru police have arrested one more youth with alleged links to the Lashkar-e-Tayiba and Harkat-ul-Jihad al-Islami as it intensified investigation into terror modules busted in Karnataka, taking the number of those detained in this connection to 13.
The businessman, Pankaj Gangar, used to transfer the money to Shakeel
The court directed the police to provide sufficient security to the applicant and his family members as contemplated under the Witness Protection and Security Act as early as possible.
The cremation of the remaining human tissue and feet of the Dalit girl, who was allegedly raped and killed in southwest Delhi's Old Nangal area, was conducted on Wednesday by her parents, police said.
The state government will send the recommendation to the Centre for a CBI probe into the case at the earliest.
One of the three accused, who had escaped from the custody of police on Tuesday night, hours after his arrest on the charge of murdering a businessman from Delhi, has been caught from the city, police said on Wednesday.
Two Pakistani nationals, including a 38-year-old woman, arrested by the city police on the charge of entering India without authorisation with an intention to settle as ISI modules, were remanded in 14 days' judicial custody by a Delhi court.
A special court of the Central Bureau of Investigation in Ahmedabad on Tuesday rejected the anticipatory bail application of Additional Director General of Gujarat Police Prithvi Pal Pandey, paving the way for his arrest in the 2004 fake encounter case of Ishrat Jahan and three others.
A low intensity bomb blast at a popular eatery in Bengaluru on Friday left 10 people injured, leading the police to invoke the stringent UAPA provisions in the case. Subsequently, the police were looking into all angles related to the incident.
The chargesheet against the 21 alleged members of the terrorist group Indian Mujahideen, involved in various serial blasts across the country since 2006, will be filed by the city police on Tuesday.
In a significant claim, Pakistani-American terrorist David Coleman Headley on Thursday said that Ishrat Jahan -- who was killed in an alleged fake encounter in 2004 in Gujarat --was actually a suicide bomber of Lashkar-e-Tayiba terror outfit.
The Crime Branch of Chandigarh Police on Sunday said that it had cracked a major cricket-betting racket and arrested four bookies in the city.
Of the 104, three persons, including Yadav and his two associates, were killed during the operation.
He said the BAJ had told the media repeatedly that Wednesday's bandh was not on the Kathua rape-and-murder issue as the case is in court now.
Teams of Maharashtra ATS and Mumbai police have been roped in to assist the Kolhapur police in the probe on the attack on the veteran communist leader Govind Pansare and his wife.
Crime Branch arrested Chhota Rajan aide Vinod Chembur, a accused in an extortion case, along with the underworld don's wife Sujata.
On Friday morning, the Mumbai crime branch is carrying out raids at premises of former Mumbai Congress chief Kripashankar Singh including his Bandra residence. The raids come after a first information report was recently filed against the Congress leader for amassing disproportionate assets worth crores.
The Crime branch, investigating the serial blasts, which rocked the city on July 26, has carried out massive combing operations in various areas even as several people have been detained for questioning, the police said on Thursday.
In a shocking discovery that could spell more trouble for the Sabarmati Central Jail authorities in Ahmedabad, police have found that the tunnel dug by Ahmedabad serial blasts accused was 214 feet long and not 26 feet as originally said.
The alleged main conspirator of the 2002 Ghatkopar blast, who was working as a software engineer, has been arrested from Hyderabad in Andhra Pradesh, police said.
Four persons have been arrested by the cyber crime branch of city police in connection with inflammatory SMSes circulated here to allegedly foment violence against the north eastern residents.
An RTI query has revealed shocking data on gang rapes in the city considered safe for women!
Earlier, Pujari was brought to India from South Africa in February last year after being on the run for several years and was lodged in a jail in Bengaluru.
A priest, Bhaktiswarup, and three touts were arrested by the Crime Branch late last night [Monday night] under the Prevention of Immoral Trafficking Act.
The city police probing the murder of Navi Mumbai-based builder SK Loharia, has issued a Look Out Circular against two wanted accused as it suspects that the duo may escape the country.
The DNA tests would be conducted as the last option in case the body parts of the Awami League MP could not be found, an officer of the Dhaka police visiting Kolkata as part of the investigation said.
According to officers who were part of the probe, detecting a crime that was committed with proper planning, involving different modules working separately for a common cause, was a challenging task.
Abdul Razik Mansuri, a resident of Gomtipur area in the city, and an accused in the serial blasts was arrested on Thursday from Madhya Pradesh, Joint Commissioner of Police, crime branch, Ashish Bhatia told PTI. "He was arrested from the Nagda district in MP by our team. He was there staying with some of his relative. We have brought him to Ahmedabad for interrogation," he said.
The Delhi police on Monday objected to a plea, seeking a city court to direct it to lodge a criminal case against Rajya Sabha member of Parliament Amar Singh for allegedly kidnapping a key prosecution witness of the 2008 cash-for-vote scam ahead of his deposition before a lawmakers' panel.
Police sources said that four persons have been detained for questioning in connection with Friday's low-intensity bomb blast at The Rameshwaram Cafe.
Police blamed activists of hard line faction of Hurriyat Conference led by Syed Ali Shah Geelani and Muslim league headed by underground separatist leader Masrat Alam Bhat for carrying out the incidents of arson as part of a pre-planned conspiracy to disrupt Eid celebrations.
Two suspected Lashkar-e-Tayiba militants were arrested from Ahmedabad and several documents have been seized from them, police said.
A real estate developer, one of the accused held in the 2011 senior journalist Jyotirmoy Dey murder case and who was suspected to be a close aide of underworld don Chhota Rajan, died at a private hospital on Friday following liver failure, police said.
Gujarat police on Saturday described as "unfounded" the fear expressed by the wife of arrested Indian Police Service officer Sanjiv Bhatt that there is a threat to his life.
Ashok Chand, deputy commissioner of crime branch, has set his eyes on the sex rackets that have been thriving in the National capital in almost all parts of the city to break the nexus between Indian middlemen and foreign women who are paid hefty sums anything between Rs 1 to 1.5 lakh a month for the services rendered to their clients.
"Three officials from the Mumbai crime branch had left for the United Arab Emirates on Wednesday night and brought the four accused to Mumbai this morning," a senior police official said. They are likely to be produced before a local court later in the day, he said
A serving army personnel was on Sunday arrested by Delhi Police from Siliguri in West Bengal in connection with the alleged ISI-linked espionage racket, taking to five the number of people taken into custody in the case.
A two-member team of the National Investigation Agency arrived in Kozhikode late Wednesday to conduct probe into the 2006 blast at two bus stations in the city, reportedly masterminded by LeT terror suspect T Nazir.
The number of militants who entered the city through the sea was 10 and "they are all accounted for," said Joint Commissioner of Mumbai Police (Crime Branch) Rakesh Maria. He, however, said that they were probing possible local support being extended by some people in the metropolis and "everything would be clear only after investigations".
Solicitor general Tushar Mehta, appearing for Gujarat, told a bench headed by Justice UU Lalit that a response to Setalvad's petition is ready but it requires some corrections.
