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Haryana govt to decide on DGP post as UPSC returns list of eligible officers

December 09, 2025 7:51 pm

Former DGP Shatrujeet S Kapur had gone on leave after his name surfaced in relation to IPS officer Y Puran Kumar’s death.

HC stays Punjab human rights panel’s order directing FIR registration against 5 cops over ‘custodial torture’ of brothers

December 02, 2025 3:18 pm

The Punjab and Haryana High Court ruled that the Human Rights Commission went beyond its brief by issuing directions and orders to the authorities, instead of giving recommendations.

After combing forests for years, half of Karnataka’s anti-naxal force to fight communal trouble in urban jungles

May 16, 2025 12:55 pm

Karnataka Home Minister G Parameshwara proposed the creation of an anti-communal task force to prevent communal disturbances in the wake of gangster Suhas Shetty’s murder in Mangaluru.

Chennai Police tell officials not to use cell phones while on duty

July 04, 2023 2:20 pm

The policemen especially those manning traffic and doing bandobust duties during important events have been asked to avoid using mobile phones as it may affect their concentration.

Police conduct search ops at bus stands, railway stations across Punjab

May 31, 2023 2:04 pm

The CASO was conducted from 11am to 4pm simultaneously in all the 28 police districts under which Police teams with assistance of sniffer dogs frisked people arriving and departing at Railway Stations and Bus Stands. Police teams have also rounded up suspicious people for verification.

Former Punjab minister Bikram Singh Majithia alleges he received threat calls

April 11, 2023 7:10 am

Majithia also said that he never made it public that he received threat calls but seeing the present scenario he spoke about it for the first time.

Chandigarh DGP, wife injured at wedding ceremony as tent falls due to gusty winds

February 14, 2023 7:59 am

Praveer Ranjan and his wife Malvika Ranjan had gone to attend the wedding of Sector-3 station house officer Sukhdeep Singh's daughter.

Senior IPS officer Umesh Mishra is new Rajasthan DGP

October 28, 2022 1:05 pm

Mishra has also been promoted to the apex scale (Level 17 in the pay matrix) of the Indian Police Service.

‘Stand by what I have written; nothing against revenue dept’: Nashik Police Commissioner Deepak Pandey

April 11, 2022 7:58 am

Sagar Rajput speaks to Nashik Police Commissioner Deepak Pandey on the reasons that prompted him to write the letter and the officer’s reaction to the censure that he has drawn from the Maharashtra Government after the letter was leaked in public.

Bombay HC reserves verdict in PIL seeking ‘permanent’ DGP in Maharashtra

January 25, 2022 7:48 pm

“The apex court had stated that a permanent DGP should have at least six-month tenure, irrespective of his or her date of superannuation and rule of law is interfered with,” the PIL said.

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