Naxals on Tuesday burnt down five vehicles engaged in iron ore mining in Chhattisgarh's Kanker district, police said.
Four of the injured are personnel of UP police, two of them with gunshot wounds, the police said.
State Home Minister Anil Vij said the probe will also go into all aspects of illegal mining in the area.
The ED on Wednesday said it has seized cash amounting to over Rs 10 crore, including about Rs 8 crore from a relative of Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi, during raids conducted in connection with an anti-money laundering investigation against illegal sand-mining operations in the poll-bound state.
Sabbir, alias Mittar, the key accused in the case, was arrested from Rajasthan's Bharatpur district.
The Nuh police on Friday nabbed a native of Rajasthan's Alwar for harbouring the key accused in the murder case of a Haryana DSP who was mowed down while probing illegal mining.
On January 18, the agency had raided his premises and claimed to have seized about Rs 8 crore cash.
The agency wants to question and record his statement under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act.
Reddy, who appeared at the Central Crime Branch office in Bengaluru on Saturday, was arrested after the questioning ended on Sunday morning
Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar on Tuesday said no culprit will be spared after a deputy superintendent of police investigating illegal stone-mining was killed in Nuh district when a truck he signalled to stop drove into him.
A day after killing seven policemen in an ambush in Chhattisgarh's Sukma district, the Naxals on Sunday allegedly set ablaze at least 17 vehicles engaged in mining work in insurgency-hit Kanker district, police said.
It seems that the 'republic' of Bellary, as it is often called, has no value for money. A year ago, currency notes worth Rs 4 crore were found burnt in this mining district of Karnataka. If you thought it couldn't get worse, 400 gunny sacks stuffed with shredded notes worth Rs 4 crore were found in a plywood factory in Bellary on Tuesday.
The Enforcement Directorate has issued fresh summons to Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren to appear before it in Ranchi on November 17 for questioning in a money laundering case linked to alleged illegal mining in the state, official sources said Wednesday.
He said the BJP is leaving a "culture", which may be used against it in the future.
The Jharkhand Mukti Morcha leader had asked the ED to advance the date of appearance to November 16, which has not been agreed to by the agency, they said.
The demand for minerals, boulders and sand is so great that it has fueled a black market and the goons who control this trade do not hesitate to kill law enforcement officers and reporters who have tried to expose them.
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Thursday alleged the BJP-led central government wanted to arrest him and prevent from campaigning for the upcoming Lok Sabha polls, saying the ED summons issued to him was aimed at hurting his "biggest asset", honesty, and defaming him..
Delhi Police on Monday arrested one of National Investigation Agency's (NIA) most wanted terrorists Mohammad Shahnawaz Alam and his two associates who were part of an Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI)-sponsored module 'disguised' as an Islamic State (IS) module and seized incriminating material, including those suspected to be used in an improvised explosive device (IED) fabrication, officials said.
A combative Rao, who claimed the I-T search warrant did not have his name, repeatedly invoked the legacy of former chief minister, the late J Jayalalithaa, and asked if raids would have occurred at his office had she been alive.
In private, AIADMK spokespersons say that the raid on Chief Secretary P Ramamohana Rao might be aimed at weakening the AIADMK, and demotivating the party from selecting/electing Jayalalithaa's confidante, Sasikala Natarajan, as her successor -- first as party head then possibly in the government, says N Sathiya Moorthy.
Four Nepalese nationals were arrested here on Saturday for possessing 2.5 kilogrammes of unprocessed uranium, with one of them claiming that her father-in-law 'brought' it from India where he worked in a uranium mine some 20 years ago, police said.
Ekka, who is embroiled in the controversy for allegedly signing official documents at a private place, was removed from the post following Bharatiya Janata Party's allegation of his conniving with middlemen.
Dharmendra Singh, a journalist with the Hindi newspaper Dainik Bhaskar, was was standing at a tea stall near his house early in morning when three bike-borne assailants opened fire on him, peppering his chest with bullets.
Authorities on Saturday continued to dig up currency to the tune of lakhs of rupees, including in new notes, across the country.
The Central Bureau of Investigation Sunday conducted searches at the residences of two close aides of former Karnataka Minister G Janardhana Reddy, who has been arrested in connection with illegal mining, and claimed to have seized several documents.
Kumar also said in the last three years, the Jaish-e-Mohammed has been "wiped out" in the Kashmir Valley. Only seven to eight terrorists are active now, he said.
Haider, a journalist in the electronic media, has claimed that he was attacked as he had reported stories which had not gone down well with the accused.
A preliminary forensic report of the Shahjahanpur-based journalist Jagendra Singh, who was allegedly killed, has pointed towards self-immolation angle.
The Uttar Pradesh government on Monday announced an aid of Rs 30 lakh, two government jobs and an "impartial" probe into the killing of Shahjahanpur journalist in which a minister is an accused, after which the deceased's family decided to end their hunger strike from Tuesday.
Senior Indian Administrative Services officer Ashok Singhvi, who is the Principal Secretary (Mines) in Rajasthan, was arrested in the wee hours of Thursday by the state Anti Corruption Bureau in the eighth arrest in a bribery case involving clearance for reopening of six closed mines of a miner.
The mother of a journalist was set ablaze on Monday at Kothi police station in Baranbaki allegedly by two policemen after she refused to "bribe" them to free her husband.
Uttar Pradesh Minister Ram Murti Singh Verma was on Tuesday booked along with five others in connection with the killing of a journalist by setting him afire in Shahjahanpur district.
The commander, identified only as Podia, was on Tuesday gunned down by police in Dantewada district, 450km from Raipur, Superintendent of Police Kamlochan Kashyap told PTI.
The Uttar Pradesh government on Saturday suspended five policemen for their alleged role in the killing of Shahjahanpur-based journalist Jagendra Singh.
Ahead of the Republic Day, security forces seized a huge cache of arms and explosives, including over 15-kg RDX and 150 grenades, in two separate operations, scuttling militants' plan to disrupt the national event in the state.
If the fear of ED could drive the powerful people of today to be honest or at least be minimally corrupt, will it not be a great thing for our nation?, asks Sudhir Bisht.
An alleged unauthorised communication equipment has been seized from the office of prominent NGO Greenpeace at a village in Singrauli district of Madhya Pradesh and two persons have been arrested for trying to disrupt the police probe, a senior police official said on Wednesday.
The Bihar Special Task Force arrested two Maoists and seized a truck load of explosives including detonators, land mines and grenades in Patna on Thursday night, said police sources. Following a tip-off, the STF arrested two Maoists including Lalbabu Sahni alias Bhakarji, the secretary of the north Bihar unit of the banned CPI (Maoist).The STF also seized a large quantity of Maoist literature, cassettes, CDs, police uniform, shoes, and other material from the Maoists.
Reddy, a minister during the previous BJP rule, had been arrested by the Central Bureau of Investigation in 2011 over alleged multi-crore illegal mining scam and granted bail three years later.
