Tag: Mafia

In Prayagraj, Yogi quotes from Ramcharitmanas to give message to mafia

CM Yogi quoted a couplet from the Ramcharitmanas and said, "Karm pradhan vishwa rachi rakha/jo jas karihe so tas phal chakha"

May 2, 2023

We will destroy mafia in UP: Yogi

Akhilesh Yadav opposed the statement of the CM alleging that he did not mention about the BSP, where the family of Atiq Ahmed had joined recently.

February 25, 2023

UP: Court orders attachment of assets of Mukhtar Ansari’s son

Special Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate A.K. Srivastava passed the order while hearing the prosecution's plea.

October 18, 2022

SAD accuses AAP of failure to rein in mafia, demands Central probe

“It is now clear that the government is helpless before the mining mafia. Only a Central probe can expose the mining mafia and force the government to stop illegal mining along the international border as well as elsewhere in the state,” says SAD senior leader Dr Daljit Singh Cheema.

August 29, 2022

Are Indiscernible officers acting against corruption paying ‘heavy’ price?

While this is not the first incident that shook the nation, earlier there have been a number of IAS, and IES officers who laid down their lives falling prey to the mafia.

July 24, 2022

Akalis, Cong patronised gangsters, I will end the menace: CM

Addressing a roadshow at Dirba in Sangrur during the Aam Aadmi Party’s campaign for Lok Sabha by-poll for Sangrur constituency, the Mann said those who are responsible for introducing gangster culture in the state are today making hue and cry over it.

June 17, 2022

Mann tells police officers to nab the big sharks running drug mafia

Addressing a high-level meeting of the CPs and SSPs at Punjab Bhawan this morning, the CM said in case any incident of drug supply comes to his notice from any part of the state, then the concerned SSP or CP would be held solely accountable.

May 12, 2022

Delhi BJP President and his sons functioning as ‘builder mafia’: AAP

He alleged that BJP Delhi State President has taken MCD land hostage for personal use. “Adesh Gupta and his sons built an illegal party office by encroaching MCD land,” alleged Pathak.

January 19, 2022

Mafiosi Suresh Pujari nabbed in the Philippines, extradition to India soon

He faces at least 10 major cases of extortion, threats to murder, killings, etc in Mumbai and more offences elsewhere the MMR region, other cities and the Mumbai Police CID, the CBI and the FBI were on the lookout for him in the past nearly 15 years.

October 19, 2021

Prohibition will lead to creation of mafia, says Kamal Haasan

Makkal Needhi Maiam founder President Kamal Haasan has argued against prohibition, saying a dry regime would lead to the creation of a ‘mafia’. The promise of implementing prohibition was being made to garner women’s votes, Haasan said about an issue discussed by all political parties in Tamil Nadu during the 2016 Assembly polls. Liquor sales...

March 1, 2018

Mafia thrashes Tehsildar: Panic grips Jajpur locals

Tension ran high at Mundamal village, outskirts of Vyas Nagar Municipality, after Vyasanagar tehsildar and some other tahasil officials were allegedly thrashed by a mining mafia and their supporters at the village on Thursday. Vyas Nagar tahasildar Sapan Kumar Nanda, Revenue Inspector (RI) of Pachhikote circle Sujit Kumar Samal, one Assistant RI and two other...

March 1, 2018

HP to crack down on forest mafia

All set to crack down on the forest mafia in Himachal Pradesh (HP), the state government has decided to take strict action against those who are in any way connected with the forest mafia. This was stated by Forest Transport, Youth Services and Sports minister Govind Singh Thakur at meet the Press organised in the...

February 2, 2018

Liquor selfie of JD-U leader goes viral in dry Bihar, case lodged

The much-flaunted liquor ban imposed by chief minister Nitish Kumar in Bihar has once again become a laughing stock. Days after the chief minister was caught on camera sharing the same sofa with a liquor mafia at the CM House, a selfie of JD-U leader with liquor bottle has gone viral on the social media....

January 4, 2018

Dawood in ‘setting’ with government to return to India: Raj Thackeray

Fugitive mafia don Dawood Ibrahim Kaskar wants to return to India and is negotiating a settlement with the BJP-led government at the Centre, Maharashtra Navnirman Sena President Raj Thackeray said here on Thursday. Making the sensational claim, Thackeray said that Dawood is now very sick and crippled, and is very keen to return to India...

September 21, 2017

Ensuring justice, Sicilian policeman style

Title: A Voice in the Night Author: Andrea Camilleri/Stephen Sartarelli (Translator) Publisher: Picador/Pan Macmillan Pages: 288 Price: Rs 450 Law and justice seem an uneasy, unlikely pair in our world where “networks” more often mean the deep, shadowy nexus of the political establishment, big business and organised crime which can influence the state’s instruments for...

September 5, 2017

Brazilian President accused of nation’s biggest mafia

A Brazilian businessman said in an interview that President Michel Temer heads the country's biggest and most dangerous criminal organisation. Temer "is the head of the criminal organisation that operates in the Chamber (of Deputies)," Brazil's lower house of Congress, Joesley Batista, one of the owners of multinational meatpacking giant JBS, said in the interview...

June 18, 2017

True crime

The publishing industry calls this genre "True Crime". We have not seen much of it from Delhi, despite the city being awash with media outlets. Perhaps this is because Delhi is a city where politics matter above all, and crime is of secondary importance. In 2015, there was Aarushi by journalist Avirook Sen but this...

May 17, 2017