West Bengal government reinstates 4 police officers transferred during elections

West Bengal government reinstates 4 police officers transferred during elections

The Trinamool Congress government in West Bengal has reinstated four police officers who were earlier transferred to non-electoral posts by the Election Commission of India during the Lok Sabha elections. The election commission had transferred several officials, including the Director General of Police (DGP), and relieved them from election duty. Among the officers, Aminul Islam … Read more

Madras High Court refuses to exempt former special DGP Rajesh Das from surrendering in sexual harassment case

Madras High Court refuses to exempt former special DGP Rajesh Das from surrendering in sexual harassment case

Former Tamil Nadu Special DGP Rajesh Das. File photograph The Madras High Court on Tuesday, April 23, 2024, dismissed a petition filed by former special Director General of Police (DGP) Rajesh Das, seeking exemption from surrendering despite a trial court as well as an appellate court having found him guilty of making sexual advances towards … Read more

BRS leaders meet DGP, complain about attacks on party men by Congress

BRS leaders meet DGP, complain about attacks on party men by Congress

A delegation of BRS leaders submitting a representation to DGP Ravi Gupta in Hyderabad on Tuesday. hyderabad A delegation of BRS leaders, led by Rajya Sabha member B. Lingaiah Yadav, met Director General of Police Ravi Gupta at the latter’s office here on Tuesday and submitted a representation complaining about attacks on BRS activists by … Read more

Spike in cyber crime cases increases overall crime rate by 9% in Telangana in 2023: DGP

Spike in cyber crime cases increases overall crime rate by 9% in Telangana in 2023: DGP

Telangana DGP Ravi Gupta addressing the annual press meet-2023 at the office of DGP in Hyderabad on December 29, 2023. | Photo Credit: RAMAKRISHNA G The total crime cases in Telangana increased by 8.97% in the year 2023. Zero FIR, mode of lodging FIR in any police station, has increased by 18.12 % this year. … Read more

Madras High Court stays investigation against former DGP R. Natraj falsely accused of sharing derogatory content on social media

Madras High Court stays investigation against former DGP R. Natraj falsely accused of sharing derogatory content on social media

The judge granted the interim stay after being prima facie satisfied that a malicious complaint had been lodged with an ulterior motive. | Photo Credit: File photo The Madras High Court on Tuesday stayed the investigation being conducted by the Tiruchi cyber crime police against former Director General of Police (DGP) R. Natraj, 72, for … Read more

T.N. Raj Bhavan petrol bomb attack | Only a lone man attack, no attempt to barge in: DGP

T.N. Raj Bhavan petrol bomb attack | Only a lone man attack, no attempt to barge in: DGP

Tamil Nadu Director General of Police (DGP) Shankar Jiwal (centre) and Commission of Police of Greater Chennai Sandeep Rai Rathore (right) and Additional Director General of Police, Law and Order, A.Arun (left) brief journalists on the recent petrol bomb attack at Raj Bhavan, in Chennai on October 27, 2023 | Photo Credit: M. Prabhu Top … Read more

R.R. Swain new in charge DGP of Jammu and Kashmir

R.R. Swain new in charge DGP of Jammu and Kashmir

R.R. Swain. File. | Photo Credit: NISSAR AHMAD Rashmi Ranjan Swain, Special Director-General of Jammu & Kashmir CID, was on October 27 designated as the in charge Director-General of Police (DGP), as the term of incumbent DGP Dilbag Singh’s is coming to an end this month. “With the approval of Competent Authority, R.R. Swain, IPS (AGMUT:1991) … Read more

Revanth demands removal of DGP from poll duties, says Telangana turned into a ‘drunkard’ State

Revanth demands removal of DGP from poll duties, says Telangana turned into a ‘drunkard’ State

TPCC president, A. Revanth Reddy speaking to the cadre after admitting leders from Tandur and Parigi constituency into the party on Thursday. Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee president A. Revanth Reddy has said that Telangana has been turned into a ‘drunkards’ State as the government is overtly dependent on excise income, and its ridiculous that they … Read more

DGP directs Commissioners, Superintendents of Police to expedite proposals for filing appeals against acquittals in criminal cases

DGP directs Commissioners, Superintendents of Police to expedite proposals for filing appeals against acquittals in criminal cases

CHENNAI: 28/07/2022: FOR CITY: TAMIL NADU : A view of the Madras High Court Building in Chennai. PICHUMANI K / THE HINDU | Photo Credit: PICHUMANI K Tamil Nadu Director General of Police and Head of Police Force Shankar Jiwal has issued a circular instructing all Commissioners and Superintendents of Police across the State to … Read more

Finance Minister calls up DGP after gang kidnaps two GST officers

Finance Minister calls up DGP after gang kidnaps two GST officers

A group of four men was arrested by the Saroornagar police for kidnapping and assaulting two officers from the Central Excise Department when they had reportedly gone to conduct raids on Wednesday. Police rescued them from the gang and nabbed the accused. The officials had reportedly gone to raid the places on information that the … Read more