In his confession before the Central Bureau of Investigation, Yadagiri Rao stated that the entire bail deal for Gali Janardhan Reddy was for a sum of Rs 20 crore, but only Rs 9.5 crore was given to him.
Bima Bharti, a member of Legislative Assembly from Bihar, has opposed the bail petition of her husband Awadhesh Mandal, a gangster and history-sheeter. Bharti has informed the court that she no longer wants to live with him as she fears for her life, police officials said on Friday.
India has not only been decked in tricolour hues in the lead up to the 76th Independence Day celebrations, but also put under a heavy security blanket, right from Delhi, the epicentre of the mega celebrations, to Jammu and Kashmir.
After the notorious gangster Vikas Dubey was killed on Friday morning, the families of the policemen who were killed in the Kanpur encounter on July 3 expressed relief.
The Central Bureau of Investigation on Sunday said that the weapon used in the murder of RTI Activist Shehla Masood has been recovered at the instance of Saqib Ali who is accused of hiring contract killers to murder her.
Haldiram Bhujiawala proprietor Prabhu Shankar Agarwal was on Friday sentenced to life imprisonment along with four others by a fast track court in Kolkata for conspiring to kill a tea stall owner whose shop came in the way of a food plaza he was building.
The bovines were rescued after an intensive overnight search and five of the accused were nabbed earlier.
Uttar Pradesh Director General of Police H C Awasthi said that the operation is still underway to nab the criminals who had fled after shooting at the police.
The Pune police on Friday night arrested main accused Subhash Bhosale in the gang-rape case involving a 25-year-old married woman. Bhosale, who reportedly drove the car in which the woman was abducted on Thursday evening and subsequently raped by two other accomplices, is a history-sheeter wanted in many offences, and was held late on Friday night, police said on Saturday.
While making it clearly evident that he would contest the next Lok Sabha election from Sultanpur -- regarded as the bastion of the Gandhi family -- Varun did not hesitate to align with a local history-sheeter and former Bahujan Samaj Party MLA Chandrabhadra Singh alias Sonu Singh, who was inducted into the BJP barely 24 hours ago.
The Tamil Nadu government will soon amend the Goondas Act, used against habitual offenders, to detain those inciting communal and caste clashes.
The BJP on Saturday accused Congress and its "first family" of leveling "false and baseless" allegations against PM Modi over the Gujarat land deal issue to cover up its own corruption and fraud.
The main accused in the Dinakaran newspaper office attack case 'Attack Pandi' on Tuesday surrendered before the police in Madurai and was produced before a lower court, which remanded him to nine days judicial custody.
Foiling a major terror plot, four suspected Pakistan-linked terrorists on their way to Telangana to deliver explosives were nabbed in Haryana's Karnal on Thursday and arms, ammunition and IEDs were recovered from their vehicle, senior police officials said.
Two history sheeters, allegedly involved in issuing threats to former Indian skipper Mohd Azharuddin, have been arrested by Maharashtra police, police sources said in Hyderabad.
The SUV driver in his bid to escape the firing rammed into three other stationary vehicles. The driver lost control of the SUV and it toppled over an auto rickshaw
Intensifying its attacks on the Congress, the Bharatiya Janata Party released a picture on Tuesday, showing Rahul Gandhi riding pillion on a bike with one Asif Billa, an alleged history sheeter of Rajasthan.
A Delhi Court on Tuesday refused to grant anticipatory bail to absconding Olympic medallist Sushil Kumar in the murder case of a wrestler, saying that he is 'prima facie' the main conspirator and allegations against him are serious in nature.
The Special Task Force of Uttar Pradesh police has arrested an active member of the Munir gang wanted in the murder case of National Investigation Agency officer Tanzil Ahmed.
Given Narendra Modi's trust in him, Praful Khoda Patel is unlikely to back down in Lakshadweep.
A proclamation and property attachment notice was on Monday pasted at the house of Laddan Mian, a close associate of jailed ex-Rashtriya Janata Dal MP Mohammad Shahabuddin, in connection with the murder of a journalist in Siwan earlier this month.
A special women's court in Mumbai on Tuesday convicted a 29-year-old driver for the rape and murder of Esther Anuhya, an Andhra Pradesh-based woman software engineer in suburban Kurla here last year.
Gandhi also charged that the focus of the Uttar Pradesh government has been propaganda and public relations instead of welfare of people.
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.
Bharatiya Janata Party president's Amit Shah's road show in Kolkata culminated with violence, arson and a police lathicharge. Parts of the city plunged into a welter of violence as his convoy was attacked with stones by alleged TMC supporters from inside the hostel of Vidyasagar College, triggering a clash between supporters of the two parties, officials said.
The furore over the release of the RJD strongman from Siwan has now reached the apex court through various petitions.
Advocate Prashant Bhushan told the SC that Shahabuddin is a 'class-A history-sheeter who cannot be reformed'.
The woman's face was smashed with a blunt object. It is a case of murder, police said.
A large crowd gathered from different parts of the city at the graveyard for the burial of Yakub Memon.
Rocky's mother and suspended Janata Dal-United MLC Manorma Devi told a police team that he will surrender in the court soon. M I Khan reports.
Among others injured were the undertrial and a home guard posted at the court, the police said.
A group of women hurled eggs at three accused in the photojournalist gang-rape case when they were being brought out of a court here today, while confusion prevailed over the age of another suspect whose family claimed he was a minor.
The Congress has distanced itself from Khurshid's remarks, saying it is his personal view.
Rajiv Malhotra's plagiarism may not be as horrifying as impersonating an exam candidate in Indore -- but they're both forms of cheating.
Amid heightened speculation of an alliance between the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Lok Janshakti Party, an influential section of the Bihar BJP has expressed its disapproval of the tie-up, saying it will harm the party's anti-corruption plank and hurt its support base.
After having identified the man who allegedly attacked a bank official at an ATM in Bangalore last month, the police say that his records indicate that he was a history-sheeter who murdered his wife in 2008. The man identified as Narayan Reddy has been absconding ever since he got bail in the murder case.
Janata Dal-United MLC Manorama Devi faced an arrest warrant on Wednesday for violating prohibition laws and allegedly harbouring her fugitive son.
The highest number was reported from Meerut zone where 569 encounters took place.
Police said 34-year-old Rajesh's left hand was chopped off in the attack which took place around 9 pm on Saturday night.
