Police in Chandigarh on Tuesday detained Haryana Congress president Rao Narender Singh, state in-charge Sanjay Dutt and 18 Congress legislators after they attempted to march towards the Haryana Raj Bhavan in protest against the detention of Congress leader Rahul Gandhi in New Delhi.
Uttarakhand police arrested the son of a former chief secretary of the state for fraud and cheating by impersonating himself as a senior army officer or a higher official from the Union Home and Defence Ministries.
Police on Sunday conducted simultaneous raids at the residences of all eight accused arrested in connection with the alleged theft of donation money from the Ram Temple.
A police spokesperson, quoting Hanumangarh Superintendent of Police (SP) Narendra Meena, identified the accused as Krish Rai alias Shaan.
Police have seized the two-wheeler allegedly used by the assailants in the murder of Chandranath Rath, personal assistant to Suvendu Adhikari.
A woman allegedly died by suicide after jumping into the Hooghly river near the jetty ghat in Diamond Harbour, South 24-Parganas, on Wednesday night, triggering panic among locals, police said.
Two mourners were burnt alive, and three others received critical burn injuries when the structure of a Tazia carried by them during the Muharram procession touched a mainline electricity wire of 11,000 volts.
Amid large-scale presence of the police and Central forces, Muharram processions were taken out in Uttar Pradesh.
A midnight blast claimed a life and three others were injured, one of them seriously at a village in Katwa, East Burdwan, late on Friday night.
The Serampore police today recovered two blood-stained bodies of a couple from Sitaram Bagan, Baidyabati. The deceased are Manish Bhaduri (35) and Aprana Majhi (32).
