The impact of the collision was such that the patrolling vehicle overturned, skid for 10-15 feet and Head Constable Wazir Singh, 50, got stuck inside the vehicle, an officer said.
A suicide bomber struck a police vehicle at a city in restive northwest Pakistan on Tuesday, killing at least five persons, including a child, and injuring 15 others.Deputy Inspector General of Police Iftikhar Khan said the bomber, who was on foot, targeted the vehicle near the main police station of Bannu in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province. Other officials said a police constable, a child and three civilians were among those killed.
According to several media reports, gunshots were fired at the residence of the son of Satish Kumar, the president of Lakshmi Narayan Mandir, in Surrey on Wednesday.
Before the violence and rioting that erupted in Nagpur on Monday, March 17, over Mughal emperor Aurangzeb's tomb came provocative statements from various political leaders.
Three people were killed and scores of others, including around 20 security personnel and four personnel of the administration, were injured as protesters opposing a court-ordered survey of a Mughal-era mosque in Sambhal, Uttar Pradesh clashed with police on Sunday.
The incident took place at Atulya Chowk in Dwarka around 5 pm, according to police.
A police sub-inspector, who was critically injured in exchange of fire with suspected SIMI cadres in Nalgonda district last week, succumbed to his injuries on Tuesday even as combing operation to nab more members of the banned outfit continued for the fourth day.
The militants attacked an India Reserve Battalion camp at Naranseina in the Moirang police station area, they said.
The toll in the clashes between police and protesters opposing a court-ordered survey of a Mughal-era mosque in Sambhal, Uttar Pradesh, rose to four following the death of one more injured person, officials said on Monday.
The incident took place on Saturday night after former DSP Ashok Sharma, who is a cancer patient, requested the two sisters to refrain from honking their car a day before, a police officer said, adding that Sharma escaped with minor injuries in the attack.
Following a deadly stampede at New Delhi Railway Station that claimed 18 lives on Saturday night, authorities have implemented stringent security measures, including prohibiting loitering on the foot overbridge. The Railway Protection Force (RPF) is also monitoring trains heading towards Prayagraj and deploying additional personnel to manage crowds. CCTV surveillance has been enhanced, and announcements are being made to guide commuters and prevent panic. The stampede occurred due to a mix-up in train announcements, leading to a surge of passengers rushing towards platform 16 via a narrow stairway.
"Five to 10 protesters charged at me. They thrashed me with lathis. I ran with some other personnel and hid near a washroom but they found us and thrashed us again. We were scared as all of us were injured," he said on Wednesday at Tirth Ram Hospital here, where he was taken after he managed to call DCP North Anto Alphonse.
Madhav was injured during the scuffle with the protesting wrestlers when they were detained, the FIR sated.
The incident took place on Wednesday night in Tarrem area when a joint team of security personnel was returning after an anti-Maoist operation in forests on the tri-junction of Bijapur-Sukma-Dantewada districts, a police official said in Bijapur.
Two bike-borne students sparked security scare as they tried to enter a Bengaluru road when the Union Home Minister Amit Shah's convoy was passing through it on Sunday night following which they were detained.
Head constable Bashir Ahmad laid down his life and two officers -- a DSP and an assistant sub-inspector -- were injured in the encounter, he said, adding both the officers are stable.
One CRPF officer was killed and three jawans sustained injuries in a militant attack in Lawaypora on the outskirts of Srinagar on Thursday, the police said.
The main accused in the case of attack on a woman constable on board a train in Ayodhya was gunned down, while two other accused were injured in an encounter with police on Friday, a senior official said.
Among others injured were the undertrial and a home guard posted at the court, the police said.
Four policemen were injured after they were allegedly beaten up by army personnel in Kupwara district of Jammu and Kashmir, officials said on Wednesday.
'Why is the Congress not tendering an unconditional apology to the citizens of India?'
Suspected militants attacked a police post in a remote area of Udhampur district of Jammu and Kashmir on Thursday night, injuring two special police officers, a day after a terror strike there saw a Pakistani terrorist being captured by villagers.
Contact-tracing of the constable is underway.
No militant outfit has claimed responsibility for the blasts. The police have cordoned off the area and are conducting searches.
A Provincial Armed Constabulary jawan allegedly shot dead three persons, including two colleagues, and wounded four others at Bansphatak area in Varanasi on Monday, police sources said.
The incident took place on Sunday when a pandal fell on the people due to strong winds and heavy rains during a religious programme.
The deceased received one gun shot and his body was taken to the hospital for post-mortem.
A constable of the Border Security Force allegedly committed suicide after shooting and injuring a head constable at the Kaptoli border outpost, under the Sabroom subdivision of South Tripura district, police said in Agartala on Tuesday. Constable Vidyadhar shot head constable Rameswar Dayal with his service rifle, following an altercation over the allocation of duty and then shot himself, police said. The head constable is being treated at a local hospital.
Five policemen were injured on Saturday after a stationary police van was hit by a speeding sports utility vehicle in Mumbai's Powai suburb.
A Delhi police constable, who was severely beaten up near India Gate by protesters on Sunday, is on ventilator support and his condition is stated to be critical
A police constable has been suspended and an inquiry ordered into the firing in Maisuma locality of Srinagar that left five persons injured on Monday. "An inquiry has been initiated to know the facts which led to this incident and one police constable has been suspended," the police said in a statement on Tuesday. Police sources alleged that constable Feroz Ahmad, who was a personal security officer of the station house officer of Maisuma police station, had opened fire.
The deceased policeman was identified as assistant sub-inspector Mushtaq Ahmad.
A 30-year-old constable was killed and his young colleague injured when a speeding Mercedes, allegedly driven by a hotelier, hit them in West Delhi while they were on patrolling duty on Tuesday morning, police said.
Violence continued in Pakistan's biggest city on Thursday with at least 18 people, including a police constable, doctor and two brothers being killed, police said.
The incident took place near Maloli village in Malshiraj tehsil of Solapur on Tuesday night when the constable was asking people to stay indoors, a duty officer at Velapur police station said.
A far-right mob targeted a mosque in north-west England that saw three young girls fatally stabbed during a peaceful vigil in their memory and around 40 police officers suffered injuries in the disorder.
Eight Naxalites and a jawan of the Special Task Force (STF) were killed in an encounter in Chhattisgarh's Narayanpur district on Saturday, police said.
Gangster-politician Mukhtar Ansari's alleged aide Sanjeev Maheshwari Jeeva was shot dead on Lucknow court premises on Wednesday, the police said.
The bus carrying personnel of the Jammu and Kashmir Armed Police came under fire from the terrorists in the evening. The vehicle was going from Bemina to Zewan, a police official said.
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