He said in most of the Naxal attacks, it has been noticed that villagers were used as human shields by the insurgents during the gun battle.
A teenage girl was allegedly molested by a policeman leading to mob violence and police firing in Assam's Kamrup district on Friday.
A police constable was killed while two others including a Central reserve Police Force personnel were injured in a landmine blast triggered by Communist party of India-Maoist at Dainmari in Naxal-hit Ghatsila sub-division of East Singhbhum district on Thursday.
A police constable was injured in a suspected terrorist attack outside a shrine in busy Hari Singh High Street area of the city on Friday, officials said.
Two armed gangsters, who were gunned down by police in an encounter in Nalgonda district of Telangana, were active members of banned Students Islamic Movement of India and had been involved in a string of terror acts that included triggering of bomb blasts across the country, police said today.
This is for the first time that the state police have accepted that they have opened fire during the violent protests in the state. At least 17 people have been reported killed.
The attack took place around 8.25 pm.
One person was killed and another injured in a suicide attack on an office of the Special Branch of police in the Pakistani capital today.
One person was killed and another injured in a suicide attack on an office of the Special Branch of police in the Pakistani capital today.
Former Jawaharlal Nehru University student and activist Umar Khalid has completed four years in jail after being arrested in connection with the 2020 northeast Delhi communal riots.
Shots were fired "accidentally" by a Delhi Police constable outside Prime Minister Narendra Modi's 7, Race Course Road residence in New Delhi on Wednesday night, sending security officials into a tizzy.
The militants hurled grenades on Nagni police post in Kishtwar district early Monday morning injuring two SPOs and a head constable
An uneasy peace prevailed in the curfew bound old city area of Hyderabad with stray incidents of violence overnight in Aliabad and Sultanshahi localities of the city.
Police informed that two businessmen identified as Pradip Kumar Paswan and Sambhu Choudhury, and Constable of 2nd Assam Police Battalion Prabin Tejiwal were travelling in a truck from Tangna Bazar to Doom Dooma when they came under fire from ULFA.
Two Naxals were also gunned down in these face-offs.
The attack took place a kilometre away from the proposed venue of the meeting of the home minister with CRPF personnel on Sunday.
Three policemen, including an officer, were injured in a landmine blast triggered by Naxals in Gariyaband district of Chhattisgarh on Sunday, police said.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday admonished the Gujarat Police over its officials publicly flogging five people belonging to the Muslim community at a village in Kheda district in 2022, asking angrily from where did they draw the authority to tie people to poles and beat them up.
As per preliminary information, constable Reetesh Ranjan fired at his colleagues with his service weapon, an AK-47 rifle, the official said.
Voting for 10 constituencies was held from 7 am to 3 pm in 10 seats and from 8 am to 5 pm in the rest 10 segments under a thick security blanket of police and paramilitary personnel in the Naxalite-hit Bastar division.
One person was killed and 11 others injured when a stampede broke out at the Kalina ground in Mumbai on Monday where a police recruitment drive was being held.
A Hizbul Mujahideen terrorist was killed and a policeman wounded in a gunbattle between security forces and ultras in Reasi district of Jammu and Kashmir on Saturday.
A viral video showed the sword-wielding mob barging out of the gurdwara, breaking the barricades put up by police and attacking the policemen.
A eunuch was shot at four times by an assailant in what the Delhi police say was the result of a gang war. The assailant was nabbed by an alert constable.
Over 83 per cent of the more than 13 lakh electorate cast their vote on Monday in the single-day Nagaland state election which passed off by and large peacefully, Chief Electoral Officer V Shashank Shekhar said.
Police sought extension of his custodial interrogation, saying it was required for further investigation and to identify other accused persons in the case.
The naxalites, said to be numbering 150, laid an ambush for a truck carrying an unspecified number of police and Provincial Armed Constabulary jawans on combing duty and blew it up, police sources said.
The incident took place around 3:30 pm at the Devika Ghat community centre in the district.
A Central Reserve Police Force jawan on Friday shot dead his officer and a member of the All Assam Students' Union and injured four colleagues when they were out on an operational task in Nalbari district of Assam.
The Gujarat high court on Thursday sentenced four policemen, including an inspector, to 14 days of simple imprisonment in a case of contempt of court that stemmed from the public flogging of some minority community members at a village in Kheda district of the state in 2022.
Indian troops retaliated befittingly to silence the Pakistani guns along the LoC in Mankote, Mendhar and Khari Karmara sectors in Poonch district and along the IB in Hiranagar sector of Kathua district, they said, adding there was no immediate report of any casualty.
'The government of India must deliberate, for how long the police personnel will be sacrificed in such a manner. This is a big issue which must be resolved for the sake of the people of Jammu and Kashmir'
Balvinder, an electronics engineer who worked in Bengaluru, was reportedly depressed after he failed to crack the civil service exams, which led to him having an argument with his parents and, in a fit of rage, removed his sword and stabbed his father in the head and mother in the abdomen.
Three armed policemen were killed and five others injured when suspected militants belonging to Hmar People's Convention-Democracy attacked members of an assembly panel in Zokhawthiang in Aizawl district bordering Manipur, police said.
Five persons, including founder of local terror group Tehreek-Ghalba-e-Islam Viqaruddin Ahmed, were on Tuesday killed in an encounter with the police in Telangana's Warangal district.
Six security personnel were killed and eight injured in back-to-back attacks by Naxals in insurgency-hit districts of Chhattisgarh, which has seen a string of strikes by the red ultras in the past three days.
Two policemen injured in naxal attack at Temelwada area of Sukma district were air-lifted to Raipur for treatment on Saturday, Director General of Police Ramniwas said.
Terrorists on Wednesday struck at the heart of Srinagar killing a policeman and injuring seven others after taking hostage number of people in a run-down hotel breaking almost two years of lull of militant violence in the city.
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