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Dey didn’t meet Iqbal Mirchi in UK, say police

MUMBAI: A day after Mumbai police claimed to have successfully cracked the J Dey murder case, they said the senior journalist was supposed to have met Dawood Ibrahim aide Iqbal Mirchi during his visit to England last month. However, they suspect, the meeting never took place. It has been reported that one reason fugitive don [...]

Home they brought the martyrs, in a trash truck

RAIPUR: Killed in a Maoist blast on Sunday, policemen Laxman Bhagat, Aslan Ekka and Bhushan Mandawi were meant to be honoured in their death as martyrs. But on Monday, the small crowd gathered at Dantewada police lines for the guard of honour ceremony was stunned when the coffins of the policemen arrived in a municipal [...]

TTD staffer ‘rapes’ minor in Tirumala

TTD suspends the accused, announces Rs. 2 lakh ex gratia to the victim TIRUMALA: In a heinous crime, a TTD staffer working in the capacity of jamedar in the Vigilance and Security wing allegedly raped a 14-year-old girl on Friday night. According to the Tirumala police, the accused, Dilli Babu, who noticed the girl wandering [...]

RTI charges life – ask information, one will not be there

Right to information a vital tool to exhibit democracy and transparency in exhibition of Governance, now claims life that files it. VITTHAL GITE, (39), Beed (Maharashtra) a farmer and a flourmill owner lost his life on April 21 this year for exposing corruption in a school run by his own family. Gite was part of [...]

Maoist strike disrupts train services in West Bengal

Midnapore (WB), Sep 28 (ANI): The indefinite strike called by the People”s Committee Against Police Atrocities (PCPA), a forum sympathising with the Maoist movement, has hit train services here on Monday. Several express trains were halted at various junctions in Medinipur district to prevent any kind of mishap in the wake of Maoist shutdown call. [...]

Oz athletes denied chance to interact with media at Delhi airport

New Delhi, Sep 28(ANI): Australia’s gymnastics team for the Delhi Commonwealth Games was reportedly denied a chance to speak to the media after touching down at the Indira Gandhi airport late on Monday. According to The Sydney Morning Herald, local and Australian media person were told by police shortly before the arrival of the team [...]

Spurned lover triggered bomb threat on Pakistan plane

London, Sep 28 (IANS) A woman angry about separation from her ex-boyfriend triggered a bomb threat on a Pakistan International Airlines plane and forced the aircraft to make an emergency landing in Sweden, it was revealed Monday. The woman called Canadian police to tell them that a flight from Toronto to Karachi had a bomb [...]

UK police probing Lib Dem MP on ”seduction” charge

London, Sept.27 (ANI): Police are investigating a senior Liberal Democrat lawmaker for reportedly trying to seduce a vulnerable female constituent. The 36-year-old single mother reportedly approached Mike Hancock, MP for Portsmouth South, with problems about noisy neighbours and inadequacies in her healthcare. Over a number of months, the married politician took the woman to dinner, [...]

Unscrupulous people nixing search for missing Indian millionaire in Malaysia, claims brother

Kuala Lumpur, Sept 28 (ANI): The youngest brother of missing Indian millionaire, A. Muthuraja, has claimed that some unscrupulous people have taken advantage of his family’s helplessness and desperation and cheated them during their attempt to find clues about his whereabouts. Muthuraja’s youngest brother Dr Kasi Viswanathan said a family friend had put him across [...]

Families of abducted Chhattisgarh cops appeal for their release

Raipur, Sep. 27 (ANI): The families of policemen being held hostage by Maoists in Bhopalpatnam, near the Chhattisgarh- Andhra border, have appealed for their release without delay. Maoists abducted the seven policemen last Sunday, including an Assistant Sub Inspector, a Special police officer and three constables. The bodies of three policemen were recovered a day [...]

Suspected Maoists abduct Orissa village council head

Bhubaneswar, Sep 27 (IANS) Suspected Maoists have abducted a village council chief in Orissa’s Koraput district, police said Monday. Four suspected rebels kidnapped Chingu Jani, the sarpanch of Dumuripadar panchayat, when he was standing near a tea stall with other people in Mathiliput village Sunday, a police officer said. They whisked him away into a [...]

Bodies of three minor girls found in Uttar Pradesh

Lucknow, Sep 27 (IANS) The mutilated bodies of three minor girls have been found lying near the railway tracks in a town in Uttar Pradesh’s Hardoi district, police said Monday. The bodies of girls, aged seven to eight, were recovered late Sunday from Shahbad town, about 110 km from here. ‘We are yet to ascertain [...]

Jungle search intensified for abducted Chhattisgarh cops

Jagdalpur (Chhattisgarh), Sep 27 (IANS) Chhattisgarh Police Monday intensified searches in the jungles of Bijapur district to rescue four policemen abducted by Maoists, a day after the rebels set a 48-hour deadline for accepting their demands for their release. ‘We are doing the best to track down the Maoists who are shifting an assistant sub-inspector, [...]

100 police officers killed in Afghanistan every month

Kabul, Sep 27 (DPA) Nearly 100 police officers have been killed and more than 200 injured each month in the past six months in Taliban-led attacks in Afghanistan, the Interior Ministry said Sunday. ‘A total of 595 police forces were martyred and 1,345 others injured in the past six months in the country,’ Zamarai Bashary, [...]

Guilty Paris Hilton avoids prison, gets 1-yr suspended sentence

London, Sep 21 (ANI): Paris Hilton has been given a one-year, suspended sentence after she pleaded guilty to drug possession and obstructing a police officer. A US judge also fined the 29-year-old 2,000 dollars and ordered her to do 200 hours of community service. Las Vegas police arrested Hilton last mont, after they stopped a [...]

Prominent Indo-Canadian radio broadcaster targeted in drive-by shooting

Vancouver, Sep 21 (ANI): Marinder Gill, a prominent Indo-Canadian radio broadcaster from Surrey, B.C., whose home was targeted in a drive-by shooting early Monday morning, has requested for police protection. Gill, 47, who is the station manager of Radio India, said he was upstairs sleeping with his family when he heard someone fire about 10 [...]

House-to-house surveys before CWG

New Delhi/Gurgaon, Sep 21 (IANS) Policemen are conducting house-to-house surveys across the capital and in its satellite towns of Gurgaon and Noida, especially near the Commonwealth Games venues and major markets, to know about the occupants and whether any new faces have come up in any neighbourhood. ‘It’s a routine exercise. We keep on doing [...]

Colombian military kills about 60 alleged rebels

Bogota, Sep 21 (DPA) An airstrike on a rebel camp by the Colombian Air Force may have killed up to 60 people, Admiral Edgar Cely, commander of Colombia’s military forces, said Monday, citing intelligence reports. The bombing raid Sunday in Putumayo province was first believed to have killed of 22 alleged members of the leftist [...]

Four of a family drown in pond

Unnao (Uttar Pradesh), Sep 21 (IANS) Four teenaged members of a family drowned in a pond in this Uttar Pradesh district Monday, police said. The four – Sheebu, Shahdab, Sallu and Roshan – aged around 18 years and residents of the Ravidas Nagar village, drowned in the pond in Gangaghat town while fishing. ‘While the [...]

Brit ‘terror suspects’ might sue police for false detention over unproven plot against Pope

London, Sept 29 (ANI): Six terror suspects arrested over an alleged plot to attack the Pope Benedict XVI, could sue the police after being released without charge, detectives fear. According to the Daily Mail, counter-terrorism officers at Veolia depot in central London detained six street cleaners after police received intelligence report suggesting they were planning [...]