Ambasamudram custodial torture | T.N. appoints IAS officer P. Amudha as inquiry officer in probe

Ambasamudram custodial torture | T.N. appoints IAS officer P. Amudha as inquiry officer in probe

The Tamil Nadu government on Friday appointed senior IAS officer P. Amudha, as a high-level inquiry officer to undertake a detailed investigation into the complaints received against suspended IPS officer Balveer Singh and other police personnel that said they subjected detenus to cruelty in the Ambasamudram Sub Division in Tirunelveli district. The panel will submit … Read more

Actor Sudeep gets two blackmail letters, police launch probe

Actor Sudeep gets two blackmail letters, police launch probe

The Puttenahalli police are on the lookout for the person who sent two letters to popular Kannada actor Sudeep threatening to make his private videos public. The letters, addressed to Sudeep using abusive words, were received by the caretaker of the family. Manjunath, representing Sudeep’s family, said this caused mental harassment and was a conspiracy … Read more

Supreme Court asks CBI not to continue probe into charges that BJP conspired to poach BRS legislators

Supreme Court asks CBI not to continue probe into charges that BJP conspired to poach BRS legislators

Supreme Court of India. | Photo Credit: Sushil Kumar Verma The Supreme Court on Monday asked the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to hold its investigation into allegations that the BJP conspired to poach Telangana’s Bharat Rashtra Samiti (BRS) legislators. “The investigation is not to be continued while the matter is sub judice or it … Read more

Odisha intensifying probe into pigeon having camera-like object fitted to leg

Odisha intensifying probe into pigeon having camera-like object fitted to leg

File image for representation. | Photo Credit: Sushil Kumar Verma Odisha police have intensified their probe into the detection of a pigeon having camera- like object fitted to its leg. The pigeon was caught by fishermen off the Odisha coast recently. “The pigeon was caught by crew members of a fishing boat while they were … Read more

Himachal Pradesh Staff Selection Commission dissolved as probe indicates irregularities 

Himachal Pradesh Staff Selection Commission dissolved as probe indicates irregularities 

Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu with Union Minister Anurag Thakur | Photo Credit: PTI The Congress government on Tuesday dissolved the Himachal Pradesh Staff Selection Commission (HPSSC) after it launched an investigation into examination paper leaks in the past three year under the previous BJP government. Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu … Read more

Corroded wires, welded suspenders behind Morbi bridge tragedy: SIT in preliminary probe report

Corroded wires, welded suspenders behind Morbi bridge tragedy: SIT in preliminary probe report

A cable suspension bridge collapsed in Morbi, Gujarat on October 31, 2022 | Photo Credit: Vijay Soneji The Gujarat government-appointed Special Investigation Team (SIT) has found in its preliminary probe that corrosion on nearly half of the wires on a cable and welding of old suspenders with new ones were some of the major faults that … Read more

Special Investigation Team to probe Maharashtra journalist murder

Special Investigation Team to probe Maharashtra journalist murder

Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis. File | Photo Credit: PTI A Special Investigation Team (SIT) will be set up to probe the alleged murder of a Marathi newspaper journalist Shashikant Warishe from Ratnagiri district, Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis said on February 11. Mr. Fadnavis, who also holds the Home Department portfolio, said … Read more

Woman passenger injured: KSRTC to probe incident

Woman passenger injured: KSRTC to probe incident

The Kerala State Road Transport Corporation (KSRTC) has begun an investigation into the incident in which a woman passenger was injured during her journey from Thiruvananthapuram to Kumily in Idukki. The woman sustained injuries when she ran after the bus at Mundakayam depot. She alighted the bus to go to the washroom when it reached … Read more

New police team to probe Nayana Surya’s death

New police team to probe Nayana Surya’s death

A special investigation team led by Assistant Commissioner (District Crime Records Bureau) J.K. Dinil will probe the mysterious death of young filmmaker Nayana Surya nearly four years ago. The 28-year old film director, who hailed from Kollam, was found dead in the bathroom of a rented house in Althara near Vellayambalam on February 24, 2019. … Read more