Patna, February 18 – In a joint operation, the Kolkata Police STF, the Bihar STF, and the Madhusudanpur Police Station have uncovered an active, illegal, improvised firearms manufacturing unit in Rahamatbagh village in Bhagalpur district, Bihar.The raid took place at the residence of Md. Nasir...
Jaipur, February 18 – The alleged scam in the Jal Jeevan Mission (JJM) in Rajasthan has once again come to the forefront, with state minister Kirodi Lal Meena reiterating his claim of widespread irregularities worth Rs 20,000 crore.Recent arrests of senior officials, including the Chief...
arrests
ashok gehlot
corruption investigation
fir (first informationreport)
jaipur
jal jeevan mission
jjm tender irregularities
kirodi lal meena
police investigation
political controversy
public procurement act
rajasthan
rajasthan transparency in public procurement act, 2012
state government
water supply department
New Delhi, February 18 The Supreme Court on Tuesday adjourned to March 18 the hearing on a plea moved by the ED alleging obstruction by the West Bengal government, including by Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, in its search operation at the I-PAC office and the premises of its director in...
cbi (central bureau of investigation)
coal pilferage scam
ed (enforcement directorate)
election strategy
fir (first informationreport)
i-pac
mamata banerjee
money laundering
political consultancy
pratik jain
search operation
supreme court
west bengal
west bengal police
Chatra, February 18 Four people have been arrested for allegedly beating a 40-year-old man with mental disabilities to death in Chatra district, Jharkhand, suspecting him to be a "child kidnapper," police said on Wednesday.The incident occurred on Sunday night in the Piparwar police station...
Pune, February 18 – Tension gripped Baramati in Maharashtra's Pune district after a 21-year-old woman was allegedly abducted in front of her mother and brother by assailants who sprayed chilli powder into their eyes before forcing her into a vehicle, officials said on Wednesday.The incident...
Ghaziabad (UP), February 17 A man was arrested after a video of some youths vandalizing a grave surfaced on social media, police here said on Tuesday.The video, which is reportedly two months old but went viral on Monday, shows some youths demolishing a grave that was constructed on a road in...
Hisar, February 17 Former Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda alleged on Tuesday that the BJP government is taking out its anger on Congress MLAs to hide its failures.Referring to the case against Guhla MLA Devender Hans, Hooda told reporters here, "An MLA showed a 'jhunjhuna' (rattle toy) to...
New Delhi, February 17 The Delhi Police has identified a person involved in the theft of devices at the India AI Impact Summit, which took place after Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the expo, a senior official said on Tuesday.Dhananjay Yadav, co-founder and CEO of NeoSapien, a...
In Chatra and Bokaro districts of Jharkhand, a mentally challenged man was beaten to death, and six women from Uttar Pradesh were assaulted by mobs due to suspicions of child abduction.The 45-year-old man, allegedly severely beaten in Chatra district due to suspicions of child abduction, died...
assault
autopsy report
bokaro district
chatra district
child abduction suspicions
damodar river
fir (first informationreport)
gandhi nagar police station
jharkhand
mental disability
mob violence
police investigation
rajendra institute of medical sciences (rims)
ranchi
uttar pradesh
New Delhi, February 17 The Supreme Court on Tuesday overturned a November 2025 order granting bail to an accused in a cheating case, stating that the Allahabad High Court should not have blindly applied the principle of parity to him.A bench of Justices Sanjay Kumar and K Vinod Chandran...
Hyderabad, February 17 When an advocate crosses the "Lakshman Rekha" and becomes an active participant in criminal activity, they cannot claim the protection afforded by the attorney-client statute, the Telangana High Court has said.Delivering judgment on a petition filed by M A Akthar, an...
advocates
attorney-client statute
criminal activity
enforcement directorate (ed)
fir (first informationreport)
government property
lakshman rekha
legal proceedings
legal profession
maheshwaram police station
money laundering
proceeds of crime
quid pro quo
search and seizure
telangana high court
Kolkata, February 17 Acting on an ultimatum from the Election Commission, the West Bengal government registered FIRs against five state government employees on Tuesday, including two EROs and two AEROs, for alleged "grave lapses" and violations of data security policies during electoral roll...
baruipur purba assembly constituency
chief secretary nandini chakravorty
data security policy violations
disciplinary proceedings
election commission directives
electoral roll revision
fir (first informationreport)
moyna assembly constituency
purba medinipur district
representation of the people act
sir exercise
south 24 parganas district
voter list manipulation
west bengal election commission
west bengal government employees
Chatra/Bokaro (Jharkhand), February 17 A mentally-challenged man was beaten to death, while six women from Uttar Pradesh were attacked by groups of people in two separate incidents in Chatra and Bokaro districts of Jharkhand, police said on Tuesday.The 45-year-old man, who was allegedly...
assault
bokaro district
chatra district
child-lifter accusation
damodar river
fir (first informationreport)
gandhi nagar police station
jharkhand
mental disability
mob lynching
police investigation
rambali rajwar
rims (rajendra institute of medical sciences)
uttar pradesh
victim identification
Amethi, February 17 Police have registered an FIR after a case of fraud involving ₹42 lakh came to light in Amethi district of Uttar Pradesh, officials said on Tuesday.According to police, Ram Milan, a resident of Byoremahu village under the Shukul Bazar police station limits, filed a...
Kolkata, February 16 – The Election Commission of India (ECI) directly suspended seven Assistant Electoral Registration Officers (AEROs) involved in the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) in West Bengal on Monday, on charges of dereliction of duty, without waiting for the state government...
assistant electoral registration officers
baruipur east assembly constituency
chief secretary (nandini chakraborty)
election commission of india
electoral malpractice
electoral registration officers
electoral roll preparation
fir (first informationreport)
jalpaiguri district
murshidabad district
sir (special intensive revision)
south 24 parganas district
suspension of officials
west bengal election
west midnapore district
Pune, February 16 Protests outside the offices of political parties will be prohibited in the areas under the Pune Police commissionerate, city police commissioner Amitesh Kumar said on Monday, a day after a clash between workers of the BJP and Congress left nine persons injured.The violence...
amitesh kumar
bjp
chhatrapati shivaji maharaj
clashes
congress party
devendra fadnavis
fir (first informationreport)
harshwardhan sapkal
maharashtra
manjusha nagpure
political protests
pune police
road blockade
stone-pelting
tipu sultan
Kolkata, February 16 – A single-judge bench of the Calcutta High Court raised concerns on Monday about the overly aggressive actions taken by the Krishnanagar Police in the Nadia district of West Bengal against an individual over a social media post involving Mahua Moitra, a Member of Parliament...
bharatiya nyaya sanhita
calcutta high court
coercive action
complaint filing
fir (first informationreport)
justice jay sengupta
krishnanagar police
legal proceedings
mahua moitra
noida
rishi bagri
social media post
trinamool congress
uttar pradesh
west bengal
Kolkata, February 16 – Suspended Trinamool Congress leader and Bharatpur MLA, Humayun Kabir, on Monday supported the Election Commission of India (ECI) after it suspended seven Assistant Electoral Registration Officers (AEROs) involved in the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) in the...
assistant electoral registration officers
election commission of india
election law
electoral registration officers
fir (first informationreport)
humayun kabir
janata unnayan party
pan cards
political malpractice
school certificates
sir malpractice
special intensive revision
suvendu adhikari
trinamool congress
west bengal
New Delhi, February 16 Union Home Minister Amit Shah expressed confidence on Monday that the conviction rate in criminal cases will rise to 80 per cent once the three new criminal laws are fully implemented across the nation in the coming years.Speaking at the 79th Raising Day parade of the...
amit shah
bharatiya nagarik suraksha sanhita
bharatiya nyaya sanhita
bharatiya sakshya adhiniyam
community service
conviction rate
criminal law
delhi police
e-firfir (first informationreport)
forensic science
integrated criminal justice system
justice system
union home minister
zero fir
New Delhi, February 16 The Supreme Court on Monday dismissed an appeal against the Telangana High Court order quashing a 2016 FIR against Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy under sections of the SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act and the IPC.A bench comprising Chief Justice Surya Kant and...
casteist remarks
contempt proceedings
criminal case
fir (first informationreport)
gachibowli police station
ipc
judicial system
land dispute
legal proceedings
litigation
n peddi raju
revanth reddy
sc/st (prevention of atrocities) act
supreme court
telangana high court