Encounter
- India
BJP holds encounters in name of religion: Owaisi on Asad Ahmed’s shooting
Hyderabad: AIMIM president Asaduddin Owaisi condemned Uttar Pradesh’s governing Bharatiya Janata Party on Thursday after Asad Ahmad, an accused in the murder of Umesh Pal, whose father Atiq Ahmad is also mentioned…
- India
Atiq Ahmed’s son killed in encounter day after gangster’s appeal to spare his family
Gangster-turned-politician Atiq Ahmed’s son Asad was killed in an encounter by the Uttar Pradesh Special Task Force (STF) team in Jhansi on Thursday. Ahmed’s son Asad was wanted in the killing of…
- India
Atiq Ahmad’s wife, sons to be named as gang members
Prayagraj: In a first, Shaista Parveen , wife of mafia-turned-politician Atiq Ahmad, and their three sons will now be named as members of his gang registered as IS-227 in police records. According…
- Kashmir
Jammu & Kashmir: Encounter breaks out in Pulwama’s Mitrigam area
Srinagar: An encounter has started between terrorists and security forces at the Mitrigam area of South Kashmir’s Pulwama district, officials said on Saturday. “Encounter has started at Mitrigam area of Pulwama. Police…
- India
Close aide of gangster-turned-politician Atiq Ahmed held after encounter in UP
Banda: A man wanted in many criminal cases and said to be a close aide of mafia-turned-politician Atiq Ahmed was arrested after an encounter with police in the Mataundh area here on…
- India
UP: Accused in Umesh Pal murder case killed in encounter
Prayagraj: One sharpshooter involved in the Umesh Pal murder case has been shot dead by the police after an encounter. The Special Operations Group of the Uttar Pradesh Police and the district…
- Telangana
Maoist leader Hidma dies in encounter on Telangana Chhattisgarh border
Hyderabad: Top Maoist leader Madvi Hidma was reportedly killed in an encounter when CRPF’s (Central Reserve Police Force) ‘cobra battalion’ personnel were undertaking operations against the militants on Wednesday. The incident took…
- Opinions
Jammu’s encounter triggers political fault lines of newer kind
The killing of four terrorists in Jammu on Wednesday touched off political fault lines in Jammu and Kashmir. The encounter in the outskirts of Jammu, long considered as the winter capital of…
- India
Warring expresses shock over remission of punishment of Pilibhit fake encounter
Chandigarh: Congress’s Punjab unit President Amarinder Singh Warring on Sunday expressed shock over the remission of punishment to the convicts of the Pilibhit fake encounter in which 11 Sikhs were gunned down…
- News
Pilibhit ‘fake’ encounter: HC sentences 43 cops for 7 years
Lucknow: In a major development in the Pilbhit encounter case, the Allahabad High Court convicted all 43 policemen involved in the case. The High Court sentenced all the culprits to 7 years…
- Kashmir
No accountability whatsoever: Mehbooba on encounter in J-K’s Anantnag
Srinagar: Hours after a “hybrid” militant assisting police was killed in an encounter in Anantnag district, PDP president Mehbooba Mufti alleged the “same story is repeated” in Jammu and Kashmir and there…
- Hyderabad
Hyderabad: Father of 4-yr-old rape victim demands ‘Sajjanar justice’
Hyderabad: Demanding ‘Sajjanar-like justice’, the father of a four-year-old sexually abused by a driver, at DAV public school protested in front of the Banjara hills police station on Wednesday. He further said…
- India
J&K: Amit Shah visits family of slain policeman in Uri
Uri (JK): Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Wednesday visited the family of policeman Mudasir Sheikh who was killed in an encounter in Baramulla district of Jammu and Kashmir earlier this year, officials…
- Pakistan
Pakistan terrorist killed in Kashmir encounter identified
Srinagar: A terrorist who was killed during an encounter with security forces in South Kashmir’s Kulgam district has been identified as a Pakistani member of the banned Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) outfit, army officials…
- India
SC stay on dismissal of IPS officer who probed Ishrat Jahan encounter
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday stayed, for a week, the Central government’s decision to dismiss senior IPS officer Satish Chandra Verma, who had assisted the CBI in its probe in…
