NEW DELHI: Even as Delhi Police‘s crime branch initiated a financial investigation into the criminal empire of UK-based gangster Kapil Sangwan, it claimed that probe had revealed that arrested AAP MLA Naresh Balyan and Sangwan were “frequently in touch” and reportedly exchanged around 40 calls last year.When questioned in custody, Balyan claimed all these calls…
AAP MLA Naresh Balyan (File photo) NEW DELHI: Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MLA Naresh Balyan was sent to tw0-day police custody in connection with an extortion case. Balyan was arrested on Saturday and was taken to Delhi’s Rouse Avenue Court.It has been alleged that he was operating with gangster Kapil Sangwan, who is behind many…
Arvind Kejriwal accused the Home Minister of arresting Balyan for speaking out against gangsters and called for the apprehension of the actual criminals involved. NEW DELHI: AAP leader and national Convener Arvind Kejriwal on Sunday claimed that MLA Naresh Balyan, who was arrested by Delhi police on Saturday on charges of “extortion,” was actually a…
Head constable Azad Akhtar NEW DELHI: In another brazen attack on a man in uniform, a Delhi Police head constable was stabbed by a criminal in northeast Delhi’s New Usmanpur on Saturday. The attack came a week after a constable was stabbed to death in Govindpuri in southeast Delhi. While the assailant in the earlier…
NEW DELHI: A high-voltage encounter in south Delhi resulted in the death of the main accused in the murder of Constable Kiranpal. The accused, identified as Raghav alias Rocky, was killed in an armed encounter with a joint team of local police and the Special Cell. A .32 bore pistol with two live rounds was…
NEW DELHI: Video footage of two Delhi traffic police officers hit and dragged for approximately 20 metres by a vehicle in a hit-and-run incident while on duty in southwest Delhi has surfaced online.According to a police officer, the incident took place on Saturday at about 7.45 pm near the Ber Sarai traffic signal close to…
KOLKATA: History sheets, voluminous registers kept at police stations, profiling criminals and their aides, will now have to wipe out names of minors, random inclusions of innocent people just because they are socially and economically backward. The pre-Independence Police Regulations of Bengal, 1943, will now be amended after Supreme Court spelt out five-point guidelines in…
NEW DELHI: The Bambiha syndicate had demanded Rs 10 crore from a Rani Bagh-based businessman and fired around eight rounds at his house last Saturday to scare him into paying, a Delhi Police probe has revealed.The ‘protection money’ was demanded by Pawan Shokeen, a US-based gangster currently staying in Sacramento, California, sources said.The special cell…
NEW DELHI: Aam Aadmi Party alleged that BJP “goons” tried to attack AAP convener Arvind Kejriwal on Friday evening during his padyatra in west Delhi’s Vikaspuri. BJP hit back, saying Kejriwal had not been attacked and it was the anger of residents building up as elections near.Delhi Police said they had not received any complaint…
Delhi Police have contacted Telegram following a blast outside a CRPF school in the city. The officials wrote to the messaging app seeking information about a channel that shared CCTV footage of the incident. The channel, named ‘Justice League India,’ posted the footage shortly after the blast occurred on Sunday (October 20). According to a…
