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NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Monday asked the West Bengal police chief to file a personal affidavit responding to Election Commission’s allegation that governing party TMC functionaries were making systematic, deliberate and concerted attempts to “derail, paralyse and frustrate” the special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls. Though state counsel Menaka Guruswamy strongly refuted the…
Suspended DGP K Ramachandra Rao BENGALURU/KGF: Hours after the state govt ordered suspension of DGP K Ramachandra Rao in connection with unverified sleaze videos allegedly involving him, home minister G Parameshwara Tuesday said such acts are ‘disrespectful and unacceptable’.“The state govt reacted swiftly by initiating disciplinary action against the DGP regardless of his seniority. If…
BENGALURU: Karnataka DGP (Civil Rights Enforcement) K Ramachandra Rao was suspended on Monday night after the state government ordered a probe into unverified sleaze videos allegedly showing the senior IPS officer in intimate acts with women inside his office. Chief minister Siddaramaiah said disciplinary action would follow a detailed inquiry. “We will take action. No…
Karnataka DGP (civil rights enforcement) K Ramachandra Rao NEW DELHI: Karnataka DGP (civil rights enforcement) K Ramachandra Rao came under scrutiny on Monday after a video allegedly showing him in a compromising position with women went viral on social media. Rao rejected the videos outright, calling them “fabricated and false.”Chief minister Siddaramaiah warned of strict…
KOLKATA: Enforcement Directorate on Friday urged Calcutta High Court to order a CBI probe against Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee, state DGP Rajeev Kumar and Kolkata Police commissioner Manoj Varma among others for “theft of digital and other evidence, wrongful restraint and confinement of central govt officers and breakdown of rule of law”.In a 28-page petition,…
KOLKATA: The ED on Thursday conducted searches at political consultancy firm I-PAC’s office in Salt Lake and its director’s Loudon Street home in connection with a five-year-old case, prompting CM Mamata Banerjee to call it political vendetta and “a crime” and dub Union home minister Amit Shah “nasty and naughty”.Banerjee, who trailed the ED teams…
CHANDIGARH: Coming down heavily on Punjab Police over the murder of a kabaddi player in public view, the Punjab and Haryana high court has directed the DGP to appear in person and explain why adequate security arrangements were not made at the stadium, where nearly a thousand spectators had gathered.The DGP has been asked to…
MUMBAI: Senior IPS officer and NIA chief Sadanand Date was Monday repatriated to Maharashtra and is likely to take over as the state’s police chief once incumbent Rashmi Shukla retires on Dec 31.Date, a 1990-batch IPS officer, was appointed NIA head in March last year. Date has headed the state Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) and also…
Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha (BJYM) members raise slogans during protest (PTI image) NEW DELHI: A show-cause notice was issued on Tuesday to West Bengal Director General of Police (DGP) Rajeev Kumar and Bidhannagar Commissioner of Police Mukesh Kumar over alleged lapses in crowd control, security deployment and coordination during the Lionel Messi GOAT Tour event…
Security personnel keep vigil outside a hospital where the post-mortem of Jan Suraaj leader late Dularchand Yadav was scheduled to take place, a day after his alleged murder, at Barh in Patna district. (Pic credit: PTI) NEW DELHI: The Election Commission of India on Friday sought a report from the DGP on the murder of…
