Jaipur, June 6 (IANS) With several districts in the Jodhpur Range sharing the international border, Rajasthan Director General of Police (DGP) Rajiv Kumar Sharma on Saturday directed police officers to maintain heightened vigilance and strengthen security mechanisms in border areas.He emphasised preventing illegal activities, criminal movement, and unauthorised infiltration through proactive policing, intelligence-based monitoring and greater community participation.Rajiv Kumar Sharma chaired a …
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Jaipur, June 4 (IANS) In what officials describe as a relentless surgical strike on Rajasthan’s narcotics underworld, the Anti-Gangster Task Force (AGTF) has, within just one year of its formation, dismantled major drug trafficking networks, arrested 557 accused, and seized narcotics and assets worth more than Rs 679 crore. From destroying illegal opium cultivation and raiding clandestine drug manufacturing units to intercepting cross-border smuggling operations involving heroin, weapons, and dr…
Ontario, May 25 (IANS) The Extortion Task Force of Ontario’s Peel region in Canada on Monday announced the arrest of 17 individuals, majority of whom have ties to an international criminal network known as ‘For Brothers’, which targetted South Asian business owners and community members across the region, not only in Canada but also the United States. In yet another development highlighting Canada’s ongoing crackdown on organised criminal networks, including Khalistani groups accused of running …
Washington, May 25, (IANS) Canada has started taking India’s security concerns seriously and is now acting against extremist and criminal networks linked to pro-Khalistan elements, India’s High Commissioner to Canada, Dinesh K Patnaik, said in an interview with IANS. Patnaik said cooperation between Indian and Canadian security agencies had improved significantly in recent months, marking a sharp turnaround in bilateral ties that had deteriorated over the Nijjar controversy.”There is closed co…
New Delhi, May 24 (IANS) Delhi Police’s Special Cell has arrested three alleged sharpshooters linked to the Kapil Sangwan alias Nandu gang along with two suspected arms suppliers, foiling a planned firing incident in the national capital that was allegedly aimed at extortion, officials said on Sunday.Police said the accused had been tasked by jailed gangster Sangwan, also known as Nandu, to open fire at a clinic in Delhi’s Chhawla area as part of an extortion bid. Three semi-automatic pistols, f…
New Delhi, May 13 (IANS) Senior IPS officer Praveen Sood will continue as Director of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) for another year, following a decision by the Appointments Committee of the Cabinet to extend his tenure beyond May 24, 2026. An order was issued in this regard on Wednesday.The move ensures continuity at the helm of India’s premier investigating agency, where Sood has overseen several high‑profile cases and strengthened institutional coordination.The extension was ap…
Chandigarh, May 4 (IANS) In a crackdown on organised crime in Punjab’s border-sharing villages, the police in Tarn Taran have come down heavily on the drug trade involving Pakistan, which had been enabling gangsters to finance and run their illegal operations in the state. Over the past three months, since the ‘Gangstran te Vaar’ operation by the government, the district police have registered 490 cases under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act, arrested 630 individua…
Sydney, April 20 (IANS) A 41-year-old Australian man has been charged by police over an alleged attempt to import 200 kg of cocaine into the country by sea. A joint statement on Monday from federal law enforcement agencies and police in the east coast states of New South Wales (NSW) and Queensland said that the man was arrested on Thursday after officers located the cocaine on board an intercepted catamaran.Police said that the vessel was intercepted by an organised crime task force investigatin…
Patna, April 15 (IANS) The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Wednesday filed a supplementary chargesheet against Kundan Kumar, also known as Kundan Bhagat, in connection with a 2024 Bihar case involving the smuggling of illegal weapons.The chargesheet was submitted before the NIA Special Court in Patna, invoking multiple sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), the Arms Act, and the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA).With this, Kundan Kumar becomes the sixth accused to be chargeshe…
Patna, April 10 (IANS) In a major crackdown on land mafias, Bhagalpur police carried out an operation against the organised land-grabbing gang, and arrested eight active members from the Anand Marg area, an official said on Friday. The operation was conducted under the directives of Bhagalpur SSP Pramod Kumar Yadav, sending shockwaves among criminal elements in the district.According to SP Pramod Kumar Yadav, on April 9, 2026, police received a confidential tip-off about an attempt to forc…