Tag: Delhi Police

New Delhi: Delhi police have busted an international drug cartel and arrested three foreign nationals from capital’s Saket area. Heroin worth Rs 25 crore has been seized from the accused, police said on Saturday. The accused have been identified as Esmatullah (40), Khalilullah (22), from Afghanistan and Victor Osondu (37) from Nigeria. Deputy Commissioner of […]

New Delhi: Delhi Police on Thursday arrested six persons, including a domestic help, for assaulting, robbing and holding captive the wife and daughter of a former Chief Justice of the Delhi High Court here. “The accused have been identified as Dinesh, Dheerender, Upender Rai, Ram Swaroop, Deepak and domestic help Sandeep. They were arrested from […]

New Delhi: The Delhi Police has registered a case against the son of one of its officers after his video of beating a woman went viral on social networking sites. Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) Monika Bhardwaj said “a stern action” has been taken against the accused Rohit Tomar, son of Delhi Police Sub-Inspector Ashok […]

New Delhi: A Delhi Police head constable was gunned down early on Wednesday by unknown assailants near his residence here, police said. The deceased was identified as Ram Avtaar. He was shot dead at around 12.15 a.m. when he went out to fetch an autorickshaw for a family member on Tanki Road in Mithapur area, […]

New Delhi: The Delhi High Court has slammed Delhi Police for forcibly separating an inter-faith couple despite knowing well that the Muslim woman is above 21 years and had married the Hindu man of her own free will. A bench of Justice S. Muralidhar and Justice Vinod Goel has sought an explanation from Delhi Police […]

New Delhi: Two persons were arrested on Thursday for allegedly assaulting a Delhi police constable in full public view in North Delhi, officials said. According to police, the incident occurred on Wednesday noon in Bhajanpura area when a team of four police personnel deployed with a PCR van had gone to unclog a traffic jam […]

New Delhi: Delhi Police on Monday filed charges in the death of Sunanda Pushkar and named her widower Shashi Tharoor, a Congress MP, as one of the accused. The charges were filed in the court of Metropolitan Magistrate Dharmender Singh under Indian Penal Code (IPC) sections of husband or his relative subjecting a woman to […]

New Delhi: Delhi Police on Saturday tendered their “deepest apologies” for the attack on two media personnel in Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) on Friday when police undertook a baton charge on protesting students. “Yesterday’s (Friday’s) incident was a very unfortunate one. Our deepest apologies to the media. Our intention wasn’t to obstruct the media from […]

New Delhi: Indian wrestling star Sushil Kumar was booked by Delhi Police on Saturday following a complaint by fellow grappler Parveen Rana. Supporters of Sushil and Rana had clashed at the Indira Gandhi Indoor Stadium here on Friday during trials to select the Indian wrestling squad for the 2018 Commonwealth Games. The scuffle broke out after […]

New Delhi: On World Day Against Child Labour on Monday, the Delhi Police joined hands with an NGO to solve cases of missing children and to fight child labour, a senior police official said. “Delhi Police have decided to share information with Child Rights and You (CRY) to locate missing children and also to conduct […]

New Delhi: Delhi Police on Saturday detained AAP MLA Sanjeev Jha for trying to “break public peace” after he tried to hold a counter hunger strike outside the house of sacked minister Kapil Mishra, who is sitting on indefinite fast to protest corruption in the ruling AAP. “We have detained Sanjeev Jha, as he attempted […]

New Delhi: The Delhi Police on Monday arrested two persons in connection with the attack on Delhi BJP chief Manoj Tiwari’s house. The arrested include Jay Kumar, 38, and his brother Jaswant Singh, 33. According to the police, the incident occurred around 1.15 a.m. following a car accident in which one of Tiwari’s staff-member was […]

New Delhi/Chennai: Delhi Police on Monday booked AIADMK Deputy General Secretary and V.K. Sasikala’s nephew T.T.V. Dinakaran on charges of bribery, an officer said. Dinakaran has been accused of attempting to bribe Election Commission officials to get the party’s ‘two leaves’ symbol. Police said his close aide Sukesh Chandrasekar was arrested on Sunday night from […]

New Delhi: The Delhi Police has written to the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) to discontinue customer helpline number 121 as it was “creating confusion” and leading to a “spike in the number of blank calls” received by the DoT’s emergency number 112. The DoT of the central government had allotted 112 for the National Emergency […]

New Delhi: The Delhi Police today detained nine students of the Banaras Hindu University who were on their way from Jantar Mantar to the prime minister’s official residence to submit a memorandum. The students — eight boys and and a girl — were released later. The Chanakyapuri Police said the girl was asked to to […]