Hyderabad Police Commissioner V C Sajjanar has assured citizens that there is no shortage of fuel or LPG cylinders in the city, urging them to remain calm and avoid panic buying.
Hyderabad Police have dismantled a pan-India cyber fraud network, arresting 52 individuals across nine states in 'Operation Octopus 2.0'. The operation targeted bank officials, mule account holders, and middlemen involved in facilitating cyber frauds.
Hyderabad Police Commissioner V C Sajjanar has proposed a Joint Working Group with the RBI and banks to address the issue of mule bank accounts used in cyber fraud. The proposal follows 'Operation Octopus,' which exposed vulnerabilities in KYC verification. Sajjanar also recommended strict directives for banks to fix accountability and adopt advanced technology to detect suspicious transactions.
A police constable in Hyderabad was suspended following allegations of indiscipline and dereliction of duty. The constable then made counter-allegations of harassment and posted a video claiming he was committing suicide, which police dismissed as a fabrication.
Hyderabad police have dismantled a multi-crore illegal money circulation racket allegedly promoted by QNet, arresting 32 individuals across Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, and Karnataka.
Hyderabad police file charge sheet against 23 individuals, including actor Allu Arjun, in connection with a stampede at the 'Pushpa-2' premiere that resulted in a woman's death.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi said he was "deeply saddened" by the bus accident in Saudi Arabia's Medinah, in which several Indian Umrah pilgrims are feared dead.
Hyderabad Police Commissioner V C Sajjanar condemns drunk driving as 'terrorism' following a bus fire in Andhra Pradesh that claimed 19 lives, vowing strict enforcement and zero tolerance.
Singh assured that the reports about bomb threats and suspicious objects being found were false.
A blaze triggered by a suspected short circuit in a building near the iconic Charminar here on Sunday left 17 people dead, with a majority of them being children.
Narsinghanand has several cases against him, including for allegedly making a hate speech at a conclave in Haridwar in December 2021, and was out on bail.
One juvenile was allegedly seen in videos misbehaving with the girl, but was not involved in rape.
TV visuals suggested that some people tried to jump out of the hotel windows in a bid to escape the fire.
The Hyderabad police is mulling filing a petition with the Juvenile Justice Board seeking to treat the five CCLs (child in conflict with law) as adults during the trial in the gang-rape case, to ensure that they get the maximum punishment.
No amount of explanation will suffice, but we did everything we could to prevent any act of terrorism, says Hyderabad Police Commissioner Anurag Sharma. Vicky Nanjappa reports
Eleven migrant workers were charred to death in a major fire accident at a scrap godown in Hyderabad in the early hours of Wednesday.
The incident happened two days after Telangana Labour Minister Ch Malla Reddy had said that the accused in the case would be caught and that there should be an 'encounter' against him.
A group of people on Monday night attacked a police station at Secunderabad city over death of a man, who was earlier detained in connection with a scuffle.
A man was on Friday arrested for allegedly trying to mislead the police by claiming that information 'accessed' by him, using a specially developed software, indicated another terrorist attack in Hyderabad soon.
"The ventilator on the first floor was broken open and the burglars gained entry using a rope. They made away with a gold tiffin box, a cup studded with rubies, diamonds and emeralds, a saucer and a spoon," security official said.
As many as 25 people were arrested so far in connection with the communal violence that erupted in the city last week, the police said on Thursday.
Abdul Wasey Mirza, a 23-year-old unemployed youth who became the victim of a terror attack for the second time on Thursday during the Dilsukhnagar twin blasts, has been questioned by police which is not treating him as a suspect.
Abdul Wasey Mirza, a 23-year-old unemployed youth who became the victim of a terror attack for the second time on Thursday during the Dilsukhnagar twin blasts, has been questioned by police which is not treating him as a suspect.
Even as pro-Telangana students are preparing to launch an indefinite hunger strike from July 11 at the Osmania University in Hyderabad, to press for Telangana statehood demand, police on Saturday denied permission to it.
Union Minister of State for Defence Pallam Raju's maternal aunt Susheela Devi was found dead in mysterious circumstances in her apartment in Hyderabad on Tuesday. Suspecting foul play, the city police have booked a murder case. Hyderabad Police Commissioner A K Khan said that Susheela Devi's jewellery was found missing. Susheela Devi used to live alone. A realtor had visited her at approximately 2 pm today. The police suspect that her murder took place after the realtor left
The Andhra Pradesh government has decided to make special arrangements for allowing the Friday prayers in curfew-bound areas of Hyderabad city on Friday.
The nexus between the Telugu film industry and the drug mafia has been revealed with the Hyderabad police arresting two brothers of popular film actor Ravi Teja, along with two others. Hyderabad Police Commissioner A K Khan said that Naga Babu and Bharat Raju, both brothers of Ravi Teja, along with their friend Naresh and an Ugandan national Cheema were arrested near a hotel in Jubilee Hills on Thursday night while they were buying drugs from the foreigner.
The Supreme Court sought an explanation from the Andhra Pradesh government on Friday asking why it had deployed the elite anti-Naxalite force 'Greyhounds' to quell the students' unrest in Osmania University, the hotbed of Telangana statehood agitation.
Home Minister P Chidambaram said on Wednesday that the riots in Hyderabad were a result of "petty skirmishes" and asserted that all those behind the violence would have to pay a "heavy price".
"The family has made a representation to our officers that women were not allowed to wear 'purdah' and their religious sentiments were hurt by this," Hyderabad Police Commissioner B Prasad Rao told rediff.com when asked about the complaints of Moulana Naseeruddin's wife Tasneem Fatima that about 50 policemen in plainclothes had barged in to her home when no male member.
Earlier during the day, the Andhra Pradesh chief minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy told reporters in Delhi that a CB-CID enquiry will be ordered into this 'mind-boggling' fraud, immediately. According to official sources, the CB-CID would take up the investigation only when a Government Order is issued in this regard.
Ace shuttler P V Sindhu said that a lot of respect was given to women in foreign countries, but in India people do not practise what they preach.
A gold tiffin box inlaid with diamonds, a cup studded with rubies, diamonds and emeralds, a saucer and a spoon, belonging to the 7th Nizam Nawab Mir Osman Ali Khan Bahadur, were recovered from the accused.
The police have information about four sleeper terrorist modules infiltrating Hyderabad in the last four months.
Gangster Aziz Reddy alias Baba Reddy was shot dead by the Hyderabad police in the posh Jubilee hills area of the city on Wednesday night. As the policemen closed in on the gang, Reddy and his associates tried to flee. The police asked them to surrender, but Reddy started firing at the police. The police returned the fire and Reddy was killed in the ensuing shootout.The police commissioner said that Reddy was a close associate of Mumbai's underworld don Chhota Rajan.
Preliminary investigations by the police indicated that all the three victims were killed in a similar manner by the killers who assaulted them and smashed their heads with boulders.
They claim that all the seven criminal cases pertaining to him have been disposed of by the courts.
To facilitate foreign athletes and dignitaries, four special immigration counters have been set up at the Hyderabad airport.
Ali, 29, a native of Nalgonda, has 13 offences registered against him in Nalgonda district and Hyderabad. He also has \n\nseveral warrants pending against him since 1991, according to Hyderabad Police Commissioner Mahender Reddy.
However, police have not booked anybody specifically under the charge.
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