Gurgaon: A court here on Thursday denied the police petition demanding test identification parade of Suraj Sehrawat, the prime accused in the May 5 BMW hit-and-run case in which two people, including a pregnant woman, were killed.

The court had on Wednesday reserved its decision on a police plea demanding test identification parade of the accused.

Sehrawat, 21, was Tuesday granted bail by Chief Judicial Magistrate Jasbir Singh's court on submitting a bond of Rs.50,000, after he surrendered before it the same day.

Defence counsel objected to the police plea for the identification...

Lucknow: Suspected criminals ran a truck over a police sub-inspector in Uttar Pradesh’s Deoria district, killing him and critically injuring a police constable, according to reports.

The incident took place late on Wednesday night when a small police team was checking vehicles near the Phulwaria Chauraha in Deoria district, some 290 km from here.

According to police, Sub-Inspector Uday...

Raipur: Normal life in parts of Chhattisgarh was disturbed on Wednesday after a shutdown called by Maoists. The rebels resorted to firing and put up road blocks besides killing a trader.

Most of the disturbances were reported from Bastar and Rajnandgaon districts, which form the Maoist strongholds and border Andhra Pradesh, Odisha and Maharashtra.

According to police sources, a trader was...

Jalgaon: A truck rammed into an auto-rickshaw and left eight pilgrims dead and another five injured on Wednesday near the temple town of Muktainagar in Jalgaon district.

"The accident took place near Nimkhed, 65 km from the district head¬quarters of Jalgaon. A truck rammed into a stationary shuttle auto-rickshaw in which the pilgrims were still seated," said an official from Muktainagar...

Lucknow: In a major reshuffle till date on a single day,, SP lead Uttar Pradesh government transferred a whopping 20,324 constables on Tuesday.

Officials said that the transfers were ordered following a government order of March 20 wherein the new Samajwadi Party government had lifted the ban on posting of constables in areas adjoining their home town.

Following the policy reversal, the...

Chandigarh: About five people including a day-old infant died on Tuesday when their ambulance in which they were travelling collided with a speeding truck on the Hisar-Ambala highway in Haryana.

Police officials said that the ambulance and the truck collided head-on, resulting in the death of the occupants of the ambulance. The accident took place about 150 km from here.

The victims, who...

New Delhi: In Uttar Pradesh’s Sitapur, a suspected Indian Mujahideen terrorist was detained on Monday for motivating youths to become members of the outlawed terror group, according to Delhi police.

Shakeel was arrested near from Sitapur, adjoining Lucknow, by a team of the Special Cell, said a senior police official.

"This is the fourth arrest of an Indian Mujahideen terrorist by Delhi...

Jodhpur: In Bhanwari Devi's abduction and murder case, on Monday trial of ex-Rajasthan minister Mahipal Maderna, Congress legislator Malkhan Singh Bishnoi and 14 others accused began in a court, according to a lawyer.

The trial commenced in the additional chief judicial magistrate's court for the Scheduled Tribes and the Scheduled Castes cases.

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in...

Patna: Police informed that nine laborers succumbed to death on Monday after consuming poisonous sattu, a variety of gram flour, in Bihar's Jehanabad district. An inquiry has been ordered into the incident.

Angry over the death of nine labourers, residents blocked roads and demanded the arrest of the shopkeeper who sold the contaminated 'sattu' to them. "A police team raided the shop from...

Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Monday said that most Kashmiri handicraft traders are honest but a few dishonest ones are giving everyone a bad name.

Speaking at an international buyer-seller meet here, Abdullah advised the traders to always ensure high quality so that buyers get the best of Kashmiri handicrafts.

"We have seen days when we did not have to seek...