Each time they held the leafy bedsheet over the window for a few seconds, a clearer but very grey visage of Indrani came into view. In the barely discernible image, Indrani seemed to look tired and downbeat. But then the bedsheet would be taken away and Indrani would disappear into the darkness once more.
According to information shared on social media, Sawant was washing his bike when a police team reached the spot and started beating him up for not wearing a mask during the lockdown. Taking a serious view of the 'ill-treatment' meted out to its commando, the CRPF had written a letter to the Karnataka police demanding an investigation into the matter.
He has also been sentenced to two years rigorous imprisonment on the charge of kidnapping the minor victim and another year for kidnapping with the intention to rape the victim.
M I Khan speaks to the bereaved families of soldiers killed along the Line of Control. They demand India though action against the neighbours and NOT compensation.
'A male constable addressed my mother using profanities.' 'They said nothing could save our home from being bulldozed.' 'They want to make my father their sacrificial goat.'
A total of five policemen have been arrested so far in connection to the incident.
The special Terrorist and Disruptive Activities (Act) Court on Monday sentenced four former police constables to six years' rigorous imprisonment and a fine of Rs 25,000 each for their role in the 1993 serial blasts case.
288 first-time offenders have been coaxed to leave the path of crime and lead a normal life.
Shahrukh Pathan, who had allegedly pointed a gun at a Delhi Police Head Constable during the 2020 communal riots, on Monday moved a court here seeking discharge from all the offences in the case.
'When integrity is compromised for whatever gratification is when prisoners breach the system and get away.'
'You are with each other 24x7, so how can you ignore someone crying next to you?' 'How can you not share a piece of chicken with someone who is sitting next to you and watching you eat it?' 'Of course, you will share.' 'And you become friends with the kind of people you never thought you'd even know.'
The apex court was also unhappy over the submission of the counsel for the Centre that the matter be adjourned.
Suspended Indian Police Service officer Sanjiv Bhatt, arrested for allegedly fabricating evidence to implicate Narendra Modi in the Gujarat riots, was granted bail by a local court in Ahmedabad on Monday, 17 days after he was sent to jail.
A court in New Delhi on Tuesday remanded to 14 days in judicial custody a sacked head constable of Delhi Police, who had allegedly hit a woman with a brick after she refused to give him a bribe.
A shoddily drafted application for birth certificate was the loose string that led to the unravelling of the conspiracy to proclaim one of those accused in the 2018 gang rape and murder of an eight-year-old in Kathua as a juvenile.
In the video, the journalist can be seen been mercilessly hit by a group of men. The victim also narrated his ordeal, saying, "They were in plain clothes. One hit my camera and it fell down. When I picked it up they hit and abused me. I was locked up, stripped and they urinated in my mouth."
The Supreme Court on Friday ordered the transfer of trial in the death case of a Kanpur-based businessman in which six policemen have been charged with murder to a CBI court in Delhi after the Uttar Pradesh government said that it has no objection to it.
Uttar Pradesh government officials on Monday morning used a bulldozer to remove encroachment done by absconding politician Shrikant Tyagi outside his Noida residence.
The top court also held that medical opinion regarding the age of an accused cannot be 'brushed aside' in the absence of statutory proof on the same issue.
The DGP told reporters Gagandeep Singh, 31, who was dismissed from service in 2019, had gone to the washroom of the courts complex to assemble the bomb and plant it somewhere.
A day after Suresh, a prime accused who was recently released on bail gave a series of interviews to television channels, Leader of Opposition in the state Assembly V D Satheesan accused Chief Minister Pinarayi's office of intervening to get the illegal baggage released and helping the accused to leave the state.
A police constable on Thursday allegedly molested a college girl inside a moving bus in Samba district, triggering protests by locals who also blocked a highway demanding action against him.
A Malaysian court on Monday found a constable guilty of two counts of causing hurt to a car thief suspect A Kugan, an ethnic Indian, who died in police custody.
The murder charges capped dramatic developments both in the court and outside where a woman head constable witness to the happenings told a Magisterial probe that the two traders were thrashed an entire night by the other police personnel at Sathankulam station where they were detained over alleged lockdown violations late last month.
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Thursday directed officials to speed up setting up of a commando training centre in Rampur and also form a skilled team of women commandos.
'Around 10 pm, a senior police officer from Hazratganj police station came and started abusing me with the choicest words...' 'He said he will ensure that I rot in jail all my life.' 'This police officer then told a lady constable to slap me.' 'She did that, but he was not happy with the force of the slap.' 'He got up, pulled me by my hair and hit me in my stomach and knees.' 'He was abusing me as a bastard non-stop.'
The state law minister expressed "shock" over the fact that even policemen could indulge in such an act.
'He (Khalid) can't be made to incarcerate in jail for infinity merely on account that others who were part of the mob have to be identified and arrested in the matter'
Soniya Yadav, slain policeman Ramashankar Yadav's daughter, reveals to Rediff.com's Prasanna D Zore that her father was not supposed to be on duty that fateful night when he was killed in the Bhopal Central Jail.
The Central Bureau of Investigation has charge-sheeted nine Tamil Nadu policemen for murder, conspiracy and other offences in the custodial death case of the father-son duo who were arrested on a 'fake' charge of violating the lockdown and tortured in Sathankulam police station in June this year, officials said on Saturday.
Here is the chronology of events in the Nirbhaya case.
The police had said there are videos where Sidhu can be allegedly seen to be present at the site of the incident.
Chattrapal, the main accused in the kidnapping of former Adobe executive Naresh Gupta's son, who escaped from a court premises in February, has been arrested, police said.Chattrapal had escaped from judicial custody on February 4 after giving a slip to two constables. The constables were taking him from the jail to the Gautam Buddha Nagar court in Noida. The Special Task Force had arrested Chattrapal from a hideout in Noida, six days after the kidnapping of Anant.
Jayalalithaa was the third chief minister in Tamil Nadu to die in office, after her mentor M G Ramachandran (1987) and before that his mentor C N Annadurai (1969). The state government should have evolved protocols for the medical care of the incumbent, and institutional memory should have guided the government and officials in the matter, points out N Sathiya Moorthy.
The application came up for hearing on Thursday before a division bench of justices Tejinder Singh Dhindsa and Lalit Batra through video conferencing during which the counsel for Jammu and Kashmir R S Cheema requested for a new date that was granted.
West Bengal police found three policemen of Jharkhand in a red light area of Asansol during a raid and took them into custody.
"It's a pity that because there are no big names attached to it, Sony Liv did not go all out to promote this dark and gripping series, the way they did with a Scam 1992. They should have made it track more to ensure it reached more people."
After the Supreme Court direction to speed up the Vyapam probe, the Central Bureau of Investigation on Monday registered five cases in connection with the scam, taking the total number of FIRs to over 30.
A day after gangster Abu Salem was shot at in Taloja jail, four security personnel were suspended on Friday pending a high-level probe even as his lawyer is planning to move Portuguese authorities for his repatriation. An attempt to murder case was also registered against his assailant Devendra Jagtap alias JD.
Police are probing both the cases and efforts are on to trace the missing 9mm pistol, they said.