Maharashtra based Dalit rights activist Chetan Janardhan Kamble said he was constrained to file the PIL after some glaring facts were revealed regarding "the state support for manipulating and destroying evidence in the Hathras gang-rape and murder case.
The STFs will be on the lines of the Tamil Nadu and Karnataka STF that killed forest brigand Veerappan.
A case against Majithia under various sections of the NDPS Act was registered on the basis of a 2018 status report of probe into the drug racket in the state.
Describing it as 'Sankalp Patra', the party in its manifesto promised 33 per cent reservation to women in government jobs and private institutions in the state and free rides in Haryana roadways buses.
At one location, seven bodies of the troops were recovered and the tree trunks bore bullet shots, indicating that a fierce gun battle took place in the area.
While Kartikeya alias Prabhat was gunned down in Kanpur when he tried to flee from police custody, another aide of Vikas Dubey, Praveen alias Bauwa Dubey, was killed in an encounter in Etawah.
Uttar Pradesh Director General of Police H C Awasthi said that the operation is still underway to nab the criminals who had fled after shooting at the police.
'Dubey was a desperate criminal.' 'I don't discount the possibility of him trying to disarm the cops and escape.'
Vikas Dubey, who met with a gory end in an encounter with the UP Special Task Force near Kanpur on Friday, conjured the image of a typical don who dabbled in real-estate, won a district-level election and rubbed shoulders with political figures.
'I was shocked by the kidnapping episode. I could have lost my life.'
Status quo at the plant was restored on Saturday morning, the company said in a statement.
The ED will soon file a complaint under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) to probe criminal proceeds of crime that were allegedly generated by Dubey, his associates and family members and if this money was subsequently used for creation of illegal movable and immovable properties.
In a relief toD leader Bikram Singh Majithia, the Supreme Court Monday directed the Punjab police not to arrest him till February 23 in a drugs case so he can undertake electioneering
A special task force which would comprise the Financial Intelligence Wing, enforcement directorate, directorate of Revenue Intelligence and the Income Tax department, has been set up for the purpose.
CoBRA commando Rakeshwar Singh Manhas went missing after the April 3 ambush in Chhattisgarh's Bastar region.
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"Notwithstanding my personal anguish, I hope this will not cause any damage to the hard-earned peace and development in the state," Singh wrote in his letter to Gandhi
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Madhya Pradesh Governor Ram Naresh Yadav, the Special Task Force probing the MPPEB scam, on Tuesday registered an FIR against him.
Slain sandalwood smuggler Veerappan's wife Muthulakshmi has appealed to the Tamil Nadu government to take steps for commuting the death sentence awarded to four of his associates in the 1993 Palar landmine explosion case.
A security personnel was killed and another got injured in an encounter with Naxalites in the Maoist-hit Sukma district of southern Chhattisgarh Friday.
The SFIO probe ordered by the government into illegal money-pooling activities of various entities would initially focus on 57 companies, most of which are in West Bengal, Odisha, Bihar and Assam.
The Border Security Force has been put on high alert along the India-Bangladesh border in Assam and Tripura following intelligence inputs of Islamic terrorists planning to infiltrate the country.
Ten illegal pathological centres and clinics were sealed and seventeen people were arrested on charges of indulging in unauthorized business practices in Patna, police said.
Police said the gangster snatched a pistol from one of the policemen injured in the accident and was shot when he opened fire while trying to flee.
A special task force has been set up under to carry out all investigations into such companies.
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A major riot broke out in Sri Lanka's main Welikada prison in Colombo on Friday, leaving at least nine people dead and 35 others injured.
The Maoists who are trying to gain a stronghold in Assam have 114 identified cadres working in the state, as per the information gathered by the special task force of Assam Police that was constituted to study the menace.
The government has ordered that no school in Delhi will hire any transport vehicle of any kind without police verification of its owner and the crew.
Amid strong demands for tougher laws to deal with crimes against women, a 13-member special task force headed by Union home secretary was on Tuesday constituted to look into safety issues of women in the national capital on a fortnightly basis.
Yasin Bhatkal, one of the co-founders of the banned Indian Mujahideen, was arrested by Kolkata police in 2008 in a fake currency case, but was let off.
Tight security arrangements were made in Bhojpur district on Wednesday, with police in riot gear patrolling roads, as the 'shraddh' ceremony of slain Ranvir Sena chief Brahmeshwar Singh alias 'Mukhiyaji' took place on the 13th day of his death at his native Khopira village.
The Assam government has constituted a special task force to be headed by the additional director general of police (criminal investigation department wing) to tackle the rising trend of crime against women in the state.
Three Maoists were killed on Monday in an encounter by Special Task Force personnels assisted by Cobra battalion of Central Reserve Police Force in Bihar's Rohtas district.
'I was invited to join the BJP, and I felt respected when they called me.'
A joint team of the Border Security Force and the Chhattisgarh police on Friday busted a bomb-making unit of the banned Communist Party of India - Maoist and seized around 300 kg of explosives and equipment used for assembling IEDs. A joint team of the BSF, Special Task Force and Kanker district police raided a Maoist hideout in the forest between Beenagunda and Uchhekoti villages in Abuzamad area, where they came under hostile fire, said Kanker district police chief.
The Special Task Force of Kolkata police on Wednesday arrested a 14-year-old student for allegedly sending a 'mischievous' e-mail to media houses claiming responsibility for the Delhi high court blasts.
Security forces of Bihar, neighbouring Uttar Pradesh and Jharkhand have launched a joint Operation Vishwas to apprehend Maoists in the wake of hundreds of people in Naxal-hit Rohtas district having escaped from their villages in fear of the ultras, a police official said on Saturday.
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