RAIPUR: A day after Chhattisgarh police arrested Kuldeep Sahu for the murder of the wife and daughter of a head constable, four more suspects – including NSUI district president Chandrakant Chaudhary – were arrested Wednesday. Though the bodies had been found nude, the medical investigation didn’t indicate any ‘initial signs of rape or sexual assault’,…
On Sept 18, a small village in Chhattisgarh‘s Sakti woke up to find that a ‘SBI’ branch had sprung up overnight. It sported the logo, and cashiers and a manager who looked busy and business-like. Chhapora village felt like it had arrived.The trusting villagers had no way of knowing it was an elaborate fraud. Even…
HYDERABAD/RAIPUR: Security forces continued their aggressive assault against Maoists, gunning down six people allegedly of the rebel cadre in an intense exchange of fire on Thursday in the dense forests of Telangana‘s Bhadradri Kothagudem district. The area is close to the Chhattisgarh border.The dead included two women. Two commandos of the Greyhounds, an elite anti-Maoist…
RAIPUR: A Maoist was killed in a gunfight with security forces in Sukma district of Chhattisgarh’s Bastar Saturday. This takes Maoist death toll in Chhattisgarh this year to 141, eight this month.Police said an encounter took place in Tumar Gatta and Singavaram villages in Jagargunda when a team of District Reserve Guard was out on…
RAIPUR: Stepping up action in the alleged liquor scam, economic offences wing (EOW) on Wednesday arrested in Bihar former excise department special secretary Arun Pati Tripathi, an Indian Telecom Service officer on deputation to Chhattisgarh govt. He is being brought to Raipur, officials said. Tripathi, who was managing director of state marketing corporation, was granted…
