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Delhi Police sets up Social Media Cell at headquarters to counter fake news

Delhi Police Commissioner Rakesh Asthana inaugurated the Social Media Cell (SMC) of the force with an in-house state-of-the-art studio Face-2-Face' at its headquarters on Jai Singh Marg

Delhi Police requests Adhir Chowdhury's 'hacked' devices for probe

The Congress leader claimed his Twitter account was hacked after allegedly posting and then deleting a tweet with former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi's infamous quote linked to 1984 riots

Delhi Police chief Asthana invites J-K students to join YUVA, assures jobs

Delhi Police Commissioner Rakesh Asthana on Friday invited students from Jammu and Kashmir to join the force's YUVA initiative and assured them of jobs on completion of the course. He also offered enrolment under the initiative and jobs to two students from the union territory, whose family members were martyred. He, however, did not give out details. The interaction programme was held at the Delhi Police headquarters, where senior police officers interacted with the students. "I want to offer the two students from Jammu and Kashmir, whose family members got martyred, to join the YUVA programme of the Delhi Police and we will look after them and will provide them jobs," he said. "We can take permission from the government and reserve some seats in YUVA for those children of Jammu and Kashmir whose parents got martyred or who need some kind of support," Asthana said. YUVA, a flagship community policing initiative of the Delhi Police, was launched in 2017 in association with the ...

Mundka tragedy: Delhi Police gets 1-day custody of building, biz owners

Delhi Police on Tuesday got one-day custody of three men, including the building owner, as part of the probe into the massive fire that broke out in outer Delhi's Mundka leaving 27 people dead

Mundka fire: Delhi police arrests building owner where 27 died

The owner of a building in outer Delhi's Mundka where a massive fire led to the death of 27 people was arrested on Sunday, two days after the incident, police said here. "We received information that Manish Lakra was going towards Haridwar in Uttarakhand. We laid a trap and nabbed him from Ghevra Mod," Sameer Sharma, Deputy Commissioner of Police (Outer), said. Lakra used to live on the fourth floor of the commercial building, and he managed to escape to the adjacent building along with his family members when the fire broke out, the police said. The police have recovered 27 bodies and identified 14 of them as women and six as men so far, they said. A motivational programme underway on the second floor of the building when the fire broke out. A father-son duo from Australia were conducting the session, the police said. Lakra was on the run since the fire incident, the DCP said, adding that raids were conducted in Delhi and Haryana to nab him. According to the police, the building

Building owner blamed for Delhi fire was trying to flee to Haridwar: Report

Manish Lakra, the owner of the building that was gutted in a massive fire on Friday, was trying to flee to Haridwar to evade arrest, Delhi Police said on Sunday.

Delhi fire tragedy: Mundka building did not have fire NOC, says Police

As many as 27 people died in the fire accident so far and 12 persons are injured, police said

Delhi police arrest IAF sergeant for leaking sensitive information to Pak

During investigation, it was found that Sharma was allegedly "honey-trapped" by a Pakistan-based woman with whom he shared sensitive documents related to personnel, national security and defence

Jahangirpuri violence: 'Utter failure' on part of Delhi police, says court

"The issue seems to have been simply brushed aside by the senior officers", Additional Sessions Judge Gagandeep Singh said

Crime rising as Delhi Police busy protecting BJP goons, says AAP; cops deny

The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Sunday targeted the Delhi Police alleging that it has failed to check the rise in crime in the national capital as it is busy protecting "BJP goons" and Tajinder Pal Singh Bagga who is accused in a case in Punjab. Addressing a press conference, AAP leader Atishi listed a number of crime cases registered in the national capital recently and accused the Delhi Police of failing to check the crime in the city. She alleged that the city police force was busy protecting "BJP goons" and BJP leader Bagga. The Delhi Police, however, rejected the charge and said the entire nation recognises it as a professional force. "Delhi Police is the best performing state in Crime & Criminal Tracking Network System implementation. Delhi Police was adjudged the best police in National Digital Evidence Contest, 2021," it said in a statement. AAP leader Atishi said the law and ordered situation in the national capital has worsened to the extent that miscreants opened fire at .

BJP leader Bagga under Delhi security after Punjab Police's arrest move

On Friday, the Punjab Police arrested Bagga from his residence in Delhi's Janakpuri, but the city police here brought him back to the capital from Haryana

Tajinder Pal Singh Bagga arrest: Delhi-Haryana & Punjab police face-off

The BJP accused Punjab police of 'abducting' its leader, who has been vocal in his criticism of Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal

Entire company of Delhi Police suspended for abandoning sensitive zone

In a major action for dereliction of duty, personnel of an entire company of a Delhi Police battalion were placed under suspension for not being found at the locations they were deployed on Eid

In violence-hit Jahangirpuri, security increased ahead of Friday prayers

"Adequate security arrangements have been placed in the area and sufficient security personnel have been deployed," Deputy Commissioner of Police (northwest) Usha Rangnani said

Navneet Rana lodges complaint against Sanjay Raut with Delhi Police

She has urged the Delhi Police to lodge an FIR against Raut and others for calling her and her husband Bunty and Babli, 420 and using derogatory caste related word

2020 Riots: Delhi Police opposes Umar Khalid's HC bail plea in UAPA case

The police stated that the trial court has "rightly dismissed" Khalid's plea for release by a "well-reasoned order" which suffers from no illegality

BJP MP Tejasvi Surya asked to join probe in Delhi CM house vandalism case

"We have issued him a notice to join the investigation," a senior police official told IANS

Delhi Police wants ED to probe Jahangirpuri riots mastermind Ansar

The sources close to the development have earlier claimed that during the course of interrogation, Ansar confessed to his involvement in drug trade

BJP worker shot dead in east Delhi's Ghazipur on Wednesday

Deputy Commissioner of Police (East) Priyanka Kashyap said that a case under appropriate sections has been registered and police is searching for the killers

Jahangirpuri violence: NSA slapped on five persons; BJP, AAP trade charges

So far, the Delhi Police has arrested 25 people in connection with the clashes that erupted during a procession on the occasion of Hanuman Jayanti