Page 11 - Police

Corrupt but 'kind' Gujarat officials allow victims to pay bribes via EMI

In 2023, the Gujarat Police had the highest reported instances of bribery for the fifth consecutive year since 2019

4 Bishnoi gang members held for conspiring to attack Salman Khan: Police

The Navi Mumbai police have arrested four members of the Lawrence Bishnoi gang for allegedly plotting to attack actor Salman Khan, a development coming in the wake of the recent firing outside his Bandra home, a senior police official said on Saturday. The Navi Mumbai launched a probe last month after they received a tip about a conspiracy to target the actor at his farmhouse in the Panvel area, the official said. The police said the four were in touch with jailed gangster Lawrence Bishnoi, and his younger brother Anmol Bishnoi and had recced the farmhouse and places where Salman Khan worked at the behest of the Bishnoi brothers. The Navi Mumbai named 17 persons, including Lawrence Bishnoi and Anmol Bishnoi, in its FIR. The four arrested persons have been identified as Dhananjay Tapesingh, alias Ajay Kashyap, Gaurav Bhatia, alias Nahvi, Vaspi Khan, alias Waseem Chikna and Rizwan Khan, alias Javed Khan. They have been booked under Indian Penal Code (IPC) sections, including 120-B .

Pune Porsche crash: Police arrest juvenile's mother in car accident case

Pune police have arrested the mother of the juvenile in the Porsche car accident case after confirmation that his blood samples were replaced with hers, the city police chief said on Saturday. She is likely to be produced in a court during the day. Commissioner of Police Amitesh Kumar said the accident investigation has revealed that the juvenile's blood samples were swapped with those of his mother. Police had told a local court two days ago that the blood samples of the juvenile were exchanged with those of a woman. Two IT professionals were killed in the early hours of May 19 in Kalyani Nagar in Pune after a Porsche allegedly being driven by the minor, who the police claim was drunk, rammed into their two-wheeler. While the 17-year-old minor has been sent to an observation home till June 5, his father, realtor Vishal Agarwal, and grandfather Surendra Agarwal have been arrested for allegedly kidnapping the family's driver and putting pressure on him to take the blame. A court o

Police arrest 'many' at Israel-Hamas war protest at UC Santa Cruz

Police in riot gear surrounded arm-in-arm protesters Friday at the University of California, Santa Cruz, to remove an encampment and barricades where pro-Palestinian demonstrations have blocked the main entrance to the campus this week. Many people were arrested, the university said. Campus, local and state police swarmed the protesters, and video from local news stations showed officers telling people to leave, then taking away signs and part of a barricade. There appeared to be some pushing and shoving between police and protesters. Officers carried zip ties and appeared to detain a few people. For weeks, encampment participants were given repeated, clear direction to remove the encampment and cease blocking access to numerous campus resources and to the campus itself, Scott Hernandez-Jason, a spokesperson for the university, said in a statement Friday. They were notified that their actions were unlawful and unsafe. And this morning they were also given multiple warnings by law ..

Gurugram police prohibits nighttime vehicle stops and traffic challans

A letter from Gurugram Deputy Commissioner of Police, Virendra Vij, dated May 28 said that permission from higher authorities will be required before issuing any challan

No link established yet to probe MLA Sunil Tingre, says Pune police

The Crime branch unit of Pune police is probing the high-profile Porsche car crash case in which they are currently interrogating two doctors of the Sassoon Hospital

Pune Porsche crash: Rs 3 lakh 'paid to swap' teen's blood sample, peon held

A peon from Sassoon General Hospital in Pune was arrested for allegedly accepting a Rs 3 lakh bribe to swap a teen's blood sample involved in a Porsche crash with an alcohol-free one

Dombivli factory blast: Owner remanded in police custody till May 29

A court in Maharashtra's Thane district on Saturday remanded in police custody till May 29 the owner of the chemical factory in Dombivli where an explosion killed nine persons and injured more than 60. The accused, Malay Mehta (38), owner of Amudan Chemicals, was produced before the magistrate court in Kalyan, a spokesperson of the Thane city police said. The police sought Mehta's custody for 14 days and informed the court that they had to visit the factory site and find out if more persons were involved in the crime, he said. The extent of damage because of the explosion was enormous, and the police wanted to examine the role of many in the incident, the official said. Mehta's lawyer argued that the company had all the requisite permissions and followed all regulations. There was also an intervener in the matter who supported the police plea for custody and interrogations. After hearing all the counsels, the magistrate remanded the accused in police custody till May 29, the offi

Attempts made to show teen was not behind wheel, says Pune police chief

Attempts were made to project that the 17-year-old minor who allegedly crashed his Porsche car into a motorbike killing two persons was not at the wheel at the time of the accident, said Pune Police Commissioner Amitesh Kumar on Friday. The city police chief told reporters that an internal inquiry has pointed to lapses on the part of some cops while registering the case and action will be taken against them. During our investigation, it has clearly emerged that the juvenile was driving the car and we have already collected all the necessary chronological evidence. For example, when the juvenile left the house, the entry on the security register shows that he left the house with the car, he said. On the basis of technical and CCTV evidence, it is confirmed that the car was being driven by the juvenile, the police chief said. Eyewitnesses have also corroborated that the teenager was behind the wheel at the time of the accident, he said. Kumar said attempts were made to show that an .

Pune car crash: Police question accused teen's grandfather, driver

The accused teenager's one of the friends and the former's driver who were accompanying him in the car when the accident occurred in Kalyani Nagar area, were also questioned

Cops drive SUV to 6th floor to arrest AIIMS Rishikesh staff for harassment

The Uttarakhand police action comes after allegations of sexual harassment by a junior resident doctor at AIIMS Rishikesh

Several policemen injured in clashes during anti-encroachment drive in J&K

Several policemen were injured in clashes with anti-social elements as authorities retrieved more than 20 acres of prime land in a major anti-encroachment drive in the Samba district of Jammu and Kashmir, a senior police officer said on Tuesday. Samba SSP Vinay Sharma said the joint drive by the police and the civil administration was launched near Balol Nullah in Bari Brahmana area on Monday evening to retrieve the encroached land and also to bust the hotspot of illegal drug trafficking. Officials said at least 40 mud-houses belonging to the Gujjar community were demolished during the drive, which witnessed violent clashes between the alleged encroachers and law enforcement agencies. We have been getting information about the vicinity becoming a drug hotspot, and during investigation it came to light that the SIDCO land is under illegal encroachment. A strategy was chalked out and accordingly the police along with civil officials moved into the area, the SSP told PTI. He said the

Some schools in Jaipur evacuated after getting bomb threats on email

At least four schools in Jaipur have received bomb threats via email. Police teams, along with bomb squads and sniffer dogs, have been deployed to conduct searches

Police arrest over 40 as they clear pro-Palestinian camps at Penn, MIT

Police dismantled a pro-Palestinian tent encampment at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology early Friday and moved to clear protesters from University of Pennsylvania's campus in Philadelphia, hours after police tear-gassed protesters and took down an encampment at the University of Arizona. In Cambridge, Massachusetts, video showed police roaming through the MIT encampment. Police in riot gear arrived around 4 am, encircled the camp and gave protesters about 15 minutes to leave. Ten students who remained were arrested, the university's president said. A crowd outside the camp began gathering and chanting pro-Palestinian slogans but were dispersed by 6 am. At the University of Arizona in Tucson, campus police in riot gear fired tear gas late Thursday at protesters before tearing down an encampment that included wood and plastic barriers on campus. In a statement, the University of Arizona said it made the decision because the encampment violated school policy. A structure made

US Police clear out pro-Palestinian protest camp, arrest 33 at DC campus

Police using pepper spray cleared a pro-Palestinian tent encampment at George Washington University and arrested dozens of demonstrators on Wednesday just as city officials were set to appear before hostile lawmakers in Congress to account for their handling of the 2-week-old protest. The House Committee on Oversight and Accountability cancelled the hearing after the crackdown, with its chairman and other Republicans welcoming the police action. House Speaker Mike Johnson said it should not require threatening to haul D.C.'s mayor before Congress to keep Jewish students at George Washington University safe. District of Columbia Mayor Muriel Bowser, a Democrat, said she and Metropolitan Police Chief Pamela Smith decided to clear the camp based on shifting information about increased threats. Our response to demonstrations is always rooted in public safety and responsibility, the mayor said. Smith said there were signs the protest was becoming more volatile and less stable. Among them

Ensure innocents from backward communities not named in history sheet: SC

The Supreme Court on Tuesday asked the police in states and Union Territories to ensure that innocents and individuals from backward communities are not named in a history sheet. Initiating suo motu action, a bench of Justices Surya Kant and K V Viswanathan said there are some studies available in the public domain that reveal a pattern of "unfair, prejudicial and atrocious" mindset. Police authorities in states and Union Territories should ensure that no mechanical entries in a history sheet are made of innocent individuals belonging to socially, economically and educationally disadvantaged backgrounds along with backward communities, scheduled castes or scheduled tribes, the apex court said. The top court said a history sheet is an internal public document and not a publicly accessible report. Extra care and precaution should be observed by police officers while ensuring that the identity of a minor is not disclosed as provided by law in a history sheet, it said. "It is alleged t

Canadian Police arrest suspects in killing of Hardeep Singh Nijjar: Report

Canadian police on Friday arrested members of an alleged hit squad investigators here believe was tasked by the government of India with the killing of Khalistan separatist Hardeep Singh Nijjar in Surrey last year, according to media reports. The ties between India and Canada came under severe strain following Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's allegations in September last year of the "potential" involvement of Indian agents in the killing of Nijjar. India has dismissed Trudeau's charges as "absurd" and "motivated." Quoting sources close to the investigation, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) reported that the police are actively investigating possible links to three additional murders in Canada, including the shooting death of an 11-year-old boy in Edmonton. Members of the hit squad are alleged to have played different roles as shooters, drivers and spotters on the day Nijjar was killed at the Guru Nanak Sikh Gurdwara in Surrey in British Columbia, according to th

Teens plotted to buy guns, attack Jews after Sydney bishop was stabbed

Four teenagers plotted to buy guns and attack Jewish people days after a bishop was stabbed in a Sydney church, according to police documents cited in news reports on Monday. Five teens, aged 14 to 17, were charged in a Sydney court on Thursday last week with a range of offenses including conspiring to engage in or planning a terrorist act. Police alleged they all adhered to a religiously motivated, violent extremist ideology and were part of a network that included a 16-year-old boy charged with stabbing Assyrian Orthodox Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel on April 15 as a church service was being streamed online. According to a police fact sheet tendered to the Sydney Children's Court, two of the defendants charged last week discussed buying guns on April 19, the same day the bishop's alleged attacker was charged, News Corp Australia newspapers reported. Gun ownership is heavily restricted in Australia under tough national laws, but there is a black market for firearms in Sydney. Four of

6,500 polling personnel, 3k policemen to be deployed in Mizoram for polls

At least 6,500 polling personnel, over 3,000 policemen and 12 companies of Central Armed Police Forces (CAPF) will be deployed for the upcoming Lok Sabha polls in Mizoram, a senior election official said here on Monday. Polling for the lone Lok Sabha seat in the state will be held on Friday. "All arrangements are complete and we have also commissioned the EVMs. We are ready for the polls," Mizoram Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) Madhup Vyas told PTI. He said the 6,500 polling personnel have already undergone two rounds of training and the final round is scheduled on Wednesday and Thursday. Vyas confirmed that the polling personnel assigned to the 168 polling stations will be dispatched to their respective locations on Wednesday, with the remaining personnel scheduled for dispatch on Thursday. He said 12 companies of CAPF including seven companies of Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF), three companies of Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) and two companies of Border Security Force (

No one injured in firing incident outside Salman's residence, say police

No one was injured in the shooting incident that took place outside Bollywood superstar Salman Khan's residence on Sunday morning, police said.