The ongoing crackdown on Khalistan supporters has brought to light a questionable delay in revoking arms licences granted to the armed guards of radical preacher Amritpal Singh in Jammu and Kashmir, officials said.
Yasin Bhatkal, one of the co-founders of the banned Indian Mujahideen, was arrested by Kolkata police in 2008 in a fake currency case, but was let off.
The list also includes two notorious fugitives -- Sukumara Kurup, never nabbed in connection with a murder and Dr Edadi Omana -- who had given the slip to the investigating agencies, and have remained untraceable for several years.
Former Delhi law minister Jitender Singh Tomar was sent to Tihar jail by a Delhi court on Sunday in the alleged fake degree case after police said that it does not require his custody for now.
Deputy Commissioner of Police of the Ahmedabad Crime Branch Abhay Chudasama was on Wednesday arrested in connection with the Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter case. He is the fourth police officer to be taken into custody in connection with the encounter.Central Bureau of Investigation's Deputy Inspector General P Kandaswamy confirmed that Chudasama had been arrested. He has been accused of conspiring to kill Sohrabuddin.This is the first arrest by the CBI.
In a setback to jailed Bihar Youtuber Manish Kashyap, the Supreme Court on Monday refused to entertain his plea challenging invocation of the stringent National Security Act (NSA) against him for allegedly circulating fake videos of migrant labourers being attacked in Tamil Nadu.
He said 100 youths joined terrorism in J-K this year, which is also the lowest in many years.
Manoj Kumar, Aam Aadmi Party's legislator from Kondli, was on Thursday arrested after being quizzed by the Delhi Police in an month-old case of alleged land grabbing.
Khan, 70, was arrested from his home in Lahore on Saturday shortly after an Islamabad trial court found him guilty of 'corrupt practices' in the Toshakhana corruption case and sentenced him to three-year imprisonment.
Investigators are now trying to ascertain as to who made these alleged forged documents and whether an organised gang is behind it.
The army on Wednesday ordered court martial proceedings against six of its men, including two officers, for their alleged involvement in the 2010 Machil fake encounter case that had triggered a two month-long agitation in the Kashmir Valley.
The accused revealed that in 2012 he came in contact with the ISI, which trained him to work in India from where he had to send information about the army from western UP and Uttarakhand,
A special National Investigation Agency court in Mumbai on Wednesday convicted six persons for possessing and circulating Fake Indian Currency Notes in May 2009.
He was arrested after a 'brief exchange of fire'.
The police are also probing the connections of Fahad with fundamentalist groups and Hawala dealings in the state.
Assistant Police Inspector G W Jadhav allegedly adopted a soft line towards prime accused Abdul Karim Telgi when the scamster was arrested by the Colaba police in 1995.
A CRPF vehicle had suffered slight damage when a Santro car went up in flames after an explosion at Tethar village, seven km from Banihal, shortly after a Jammu-bound convoy crossed the Jawahar Tunnel, the gateway to Kashmir valley.
During the interrogation of arrested directors, police got the name of Sagar alias Shaggy. However, by that time, Shaggy had left the country on October 5 before police could catch him.
All three have been taken to the Special Investigation Team's headquarters at Pune and will be produced before the special MCOCA Court there on Sunday morning, SIT sources said.
He had even visited the last post at Uri in north Kashmir, posing for pictures at a bridge treated as a Line of Control between India and Pakistan.
A local court on Tuesday remanded the woman -- who was arrested for trespassing into the ISRO premises -- to four days police custody, said the police. Buela N Sam was produced before the 10th Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Court and remanded to police custody.
Questioning the team's authority headed by a former Patna high court judge, Banerjee pointed out that Ram Navami processions organised by the Bharatiya Janata Party had carried arms and driven tractors and deliberately taken routes where 'Namaz' was being offered.
This is the first time that police officials of the rank of SSP or DSP have been arrested in connection with custodial killings or fake encounters since the militancy erupted in the state in the 1990s.
The Mumbai police on Friday filed an application in the sessions court, seeking permission to arrest Kolkata-based businessman Kashinath Tapuriah, an associate of Pune stud farm owner Hasan Ali Khan, in a fake passport case.
'Seven months he has been in jail for no reason.'
As many as 500 porn CDs, around Rs 2 lakh cash, pen drive, laptop and a diary were seized from the journalist's residence, police said.
A first information report (FIR) has been registered against three girl students of a paramedical college in Udupi over the alleged recording of a video of their fellow student in the college washroom recently, police sources said.
Later, Kejriwal says there is tremendous pressure on police to register fake cases against AAP leaders.
The crackdown in the corporate espionage case led to the arrest of another person on Monday.
She also demanded that Chief Minister N Biren Singh admit his failure and apologise to the people of Manipur.
A local court on Monday extended the custody of two police officers, Tarun Barot and Bharat Patel, arrested on Saturday by the Central Bureau of Investigation in connection with alleged fake encounter of Ishrat Jahan, for three more days.
The SIMI members, wanted by the National Investigation Agency, were arrested from a house in the steel city after a three-hour long operation.
A close aide of Asaram who was evading arrest in connection with the murder of a prime witness in a rape case against the self-styled godman has been arrested.
Two pilots arrested in New Delhi for obtaining flying licence by allegedly forging marksheets are believed to have paid touts Rs 10-12 lakh each, Police said, adding investigations were underway to know the identity of these middlemen.
Singh was arrested on Friday evening, along with his driver Pankaj and assistant Praveen, when he was called for questioning by Delhi police.
A casual worker employed at the Defence Ministry was arrested on Tuesday for allegedly providing forged identity card to a key accused in petroleum ministry leaks case while police maintained that no sensitive documents were leaked or stolen from the defence ministry.
The Punjab police has arrested a Border Security Force jawan for allegedly helping in cross border smuggling of weapons and narcotics.
Addl DGP R Sri Kumar, said in Bangalore that 54 of the 70 accused have been arrested.
Launching a scathing broadside over the arrest of Delhi law minister, the Aam Aadmi Party government on Tuesday.
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