Man posing as retired IPS officer dupes Ghaziabad cops; two arrested
1 month, 2 weeks ago

Man posing as retired IPS officer dupes Ghaziabad cops; two arrested

Hindustan Times  

The Ghaziabad police have arrested a 68-year-old man from Greater Kailash in Delhi who allegedly impersonated a retired Indian Police Service officer in order to seek favours for an associate who is booked in a cheating case, officers said on Thursday. Giving details of the case, police said Katiyal on November 14 reached out to Ghaziabad police officers and met deputy commissioner of police Nimish Patil as well as police commissioner Ajay Kumar Mishra, allegedly in an attempt to get a favourable outcome in a case registered against Kapoor on August 30 at the Indirapuram police station. Katiyal also allegedly impressed upon Ghaziabad police officers that he had worked with the Intelligence Bureau, while Kapoor allegedly threatened the investigating officers in the Indirapuram case that he would implicate them in a false case in order to disrupt the case against him. Officers said they first got suspicious about Katiyal when he and Kapoor showed “undue eagerness” and got clicked their pictures with the police top brass.

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Dy. CM Pawan Kalyan Y-category Security Breached in Manyam District
1 week, 6 days ago

Dy. CM Pawan Kalyan Y-category Security Breached in Manyam District

Deccan Chronicle  

Visakhapatnam: A serious breach of security occurred when Deputy Chief Minister K. Pawan Kalyan, a Y-category protectee, visited the Parvathipuram Manyam district recently. A man, identified as B. Surya Prakash from Mudidam area of Vizianagaram district, entered the Deputy CM’s security cordon posing as an IPS officer. Police got suspicious when he attempted to travel to Hyderabad in one of …

Man booked in Lucknow for posing as IAS officer, threatening girl to marry him
1 month, 1 week ago

Man booked in Lucknow for posing as IAS officer, threatening girl to marry him

Hindustan Times  

A man in Uttar Pradesh's Lucknow has been booked for allegedly posing as an IAS officer and threatening to kill a woman if she did not marry him, PTI reported citing police. The case against the accused, one Deepak Kumar, was filed at the Chinhat police station on November 30 on the basis of a complaint filed by the victim's …

Posing as ex-IPS officer, advisor to Home Ministry: How man tried to con cops
1 month, 2 weeks ago

Posing as ex-IPS officer, advisor to Home Ministry: How man tried to con cops

India Today  

On November 14, the Public Relation Officer of DCP Trans Hindon, Neeraj Rathore, received a phone call. Taking advantage of all these contacts, Anil Katiyal often claimed to be a 1979-batch IPS officer and started fraudulently getting work done by various government departments as a broker and liaison, police said. Katiyal also threatened the officials of Ghazibad's Indirapuram Police Station …

Activist Sunil Kapoor Accused of Creating Email ID and Sending Complaint to Police Officials and Chief Minister
2 months, 1 week ago

Activist Sunil Kapoor Accused of Creating Email ID and Sending Complaint to Police Officials and Chief Minister

Hindustan Times  

Police investigation into an anonymous letter against an IPS officer in Jind has led to the arrest of an activist, Sunil Kapoor. The activist allegedly created an email ID and sent a complaint to police officials and the chief minister, alleging sexual harassment of women cops. Kapoor has been evasive and has not joined the SIT investigation. The investigation is …

7 IPS officers assigned new roles in Delhi Police
5 months, 1 week ago

7 IPS officers assigned new roles in Delhi Police

Hindustan Times  

Seven senior Indian Police Services officers of special commissioner of police rank were assigned new roles in the Delhi Police following an order from lieutenant governor VK Saxena on Thursday. According to the order, 1995-batch IPS officer Devesh Chandra Srivastava, who was earlier the police chief in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, has been appointed the new crime branch chief. …

Reshuffle In Delhi Police As 7 Special Commissioners Transferred. Details Here
5 months, 1 week ago

Reshuffle In Delhi Police As 7 Special Commissioners Transferred. Details Here

ABP News  

In a reshuffle in Delh Police, at least seven Special Commissioners were transferred on Thursday by Delhi Lieutenant Governor Vinai Kumar Saxena. Reshuffle in Delhi Police with transfer of officers at Special Commissioner level pic.twitter.com/gznhprbfxG — ANI August 1, 2024 "The Hon'ble Lt. Neeraj Thakur has been trasnferred from Special CP, Delhi Police Corporation Ltd. to Special CP, Delhi Police …

IPS Prashant Kumar appointed as new acting DGP of Uttar Pradesh
11 months, 1 week ago

IPS Prashant Kumar appointed as new acting DGP of Uttar Pradesh

Hindustan Times  

Lucknow: The Uttar Pradesh government on Wednesday appointed Indian Police Service officer Prashant Kumar as the new acting director general of police. DGP Prashant Kumar met UP chief minister Yogi Adityanath A 1990 batch IPS officer, Prashant has over three decades of experience in several important posts, including additional DG, law and order and additional DG of Meerut zone. Senior …

Major administrative reshuffle in Haryana, Gurugram Police Commissioner among 20 IPS officers transferred
1 year, 4 months ago

Major administrative reshuffle in Haryana, Gurugram Police Commissioner among 20 IPS officers transferred

India TV News  

In a major administrative reshuffle, the Haryana government on Monday ordered the transfer and posting orders of 20 IPS officers with immediate effect, including Gurugram Police Commissioner. The administrative reshuffle came barely days after the appointment of IPS officer Shatrujeet Singh Kapoor as the new Haryana Director General of Police. 20 IPS officers transferred According to the order, Kala Ramachandran, …

New Haryana DGP: With Yadava named RPF head, state to take up empanelment of IPS officers with Centre
1 year, 5 months ago

New Haryana DGP: With Yadava named RPF head, state to take up empanelment of IPS officers with Centre

Hindustan Times  

With the appointments committee of the cabinet of the central government appointing senior most Haryana-cadre IPS officer Manoj Yadava as director general, Railway Protection Force, on Tuesday night, the Haryana government is likely to speak to the Union rail and home ministries to convey to the Union Public Service Commission that it would not be possible to relieve him for …

​Jalandhar Bypoll Ar-Mann: Punjab Govt Crackdown on Mafia-Police Nexus to Counter Cong Caste Card?
1 year, 8 months ago

​Jalandhar Bypoll Ar-Mann: Punjab Govt Crackdown on Mafia-Police Nexus to Counter Cong Caste Card?

News 18  

With the Congress hoping that its caste card will play a major role in the run-up to the Jalandhar bypoll, the Aam Aadmi Party seems to be countering it with crackdown on the mafia-police nexus in Punjab. In the latest move, the Bhagwant Mann government has ordered Director General of Police Gaurav Yadav to inquire whether more senior police officers …

Dilip Cherian | Bihar IAS body’s silence on release of ‘murderer’ MP irks some babus
1 year, 11 months ago

Dilip Cherian | Bihar IAS body’s silence on release of ‘murderer’ MP irks some babus

Deccan Chronicle  

Many IAS officers are upset with the Bihar IAS Officers’ Association’s silence at the state government’s proposal to release former MP Anand Mohan from jail. But a former IPS officer Amitabh Kumar Das has strongly criticised the state IAS association for keeping mum on this sensitive matter and even called for it to be dissolved if it does not take …

Dilip Cherian | Kerala babu finds himself caught in crossfire between gov, Vijayan
2 years, 1 month ago

Dilip Cherian | Kerala babu finds himself caught in crossfire between gov, Vijayan

Deccan Chronicle  

The ongoing power tussle between Kerala chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan and governor Arif Mohammed Khan is inevitably affecting the babus. Babu observers have informed DKB that this is surely the first time that the list of officers whose names have not been approved for empanelment has been made public. # Meghalaya seeks separate cadre for IAS, IPS officers Recent incidents …

Man poses as Indian Army officer, rapes CISF constable on pretext of marriage, siphons Rs 28 lakh
2 years, 4 months ago

Man poses as Indian Army officer, rapes CISF constable on pretext of marriage, siphons Rs 28 lakh

Firstpost  

The woman CISF constable said in her complaint that she came in contact with the accused Deepak Kumar through a matrimonial website, where he faked to be a serving Major in the Indian Army New Delhi: A 28-year-old man allegedly raped a paramilitary woman constable on the pretext of marriage after posing as an Indian Army officer and also siphoned …

Dilip Cherian | To fight image problem, UP babus told to scan local news
2 years, 4 months ago

Dilip Cherian | To fight image problem, UP babus told to scan local news

Deccan Chronicle  

Additional chief secretary of Uttar Pradesh Navneet Sehgal has recently written to districts/block/tehsil information officers to monitor the news that is published at the micro-level. Recently, the man in charge of transforming the road transportation sector, said that babus should only say “yes, sir” to whatever the mantris say since the government runs on the diktat of the minister. IPS …

IPS Sanjay Arora takes charge as Delhi Police Commissioner
2 years, 5 months ago

IPS Sanjay Arora takes charge as Delhi Police Commissioner

Live Mint  

Senior IPS officer Sanjay Arora on Monday took charge as Delhi Police Commissioner, said officials as quoted by news agency PTI. Previously, IPS Sanjay Arora served as the Superintendent of Police of the Tamil Nadu Police Special Task Force, where he was awarded the chief minister's gallantry medal for bravery during the process of hunting down forest brigand Veerappan. In …

BREAKING| 'Local Influential Person Involved': Calcutta High Court Directs IPS Officer Parul Kush Jain To Oversee Probe Into Pingla Rape Case Of WB
2 years, 8 months ago

BREAKING| 'Local Influential Person Involved': Calcutta High Court Directs IPS Officer Parul Kush Jain To Oversee Probe Into Pingla Rape Case Of WB

Live Law  

The Calcutta High Court on Friday directed IPS officer Parul Kush Jain to oversee the probe in the Pingla rape case wherein an alleged attempt to rape was made on a differently-abled woman by a local panchayat member said to have affiliation to the Trinamool Congress at Pingla in West Midnapore district on April 11.The IPS officer is currently posted …

Amid row over PM's security breach, IPS officer V K Bhawra made Punjab's DGP
3 years ago

Amid row over PM's security breach, IPS officer V K Bhawra made Punjab's DGP

India TV News  

Highlights Senior IPS officer Viresh Kumar Bhawra has been appointed as new director-general of Punjab police. Senior IPS officer Viresh Kumar Bhawra has been appointed as the new director-general of Punjab police, an official order said on Saturday. A few days back, the UPSC had sent a panel of three IPS officers -- Dinkar Gupta, V K Bhawra and Prabodh …

12 IPS officers transferred in Uttar Pradesh
3 years, 2 months ago

12 IPS officers transferred in Uttar Pradesh

India TV News  

The Yogi Adityanath government in Uttar Pradesh has transferred around 12 Indian Police Service officers. According to the official release, Mohit Agarwal, Inspector General of Police, Kanpur, has been sent to Lucknow as Inspector General of Police Technical Services. Nachiketa Jha has been posted as IG Agra, while Naveen Arora, Inspector General of Police, Agra, has been sent to Lucknow. …

Man arrested in Kolkata for posing as IPS officer with NIA
3 years, 5 months ago

Man arrested in Kolkata for posing as IPS officer with NIA

India Today  

A man was arrested for posing as an IPS officer with the National Investigation Agency in Kolkata. Based on a complaint filed at Park Street police station, the anti-rowdy squad of Kolkata Police's detective department arrested the fake accused and two of his associates, including a security guard, from the city's Belghoria area on Monday night. A case U/S 170 …

Delhi: Man poses as army officer to attract women on social media; arrested
3 years, 6 months ago

Delhi: Man poses as army officer to attract women on social media; arrested

India TV News  

A 40-year-old man was arrested by the Delhi police for impersonating himself as an army officer on Friday near Archana Red Light Greater Kailash-1. The police recovered one fake/forged Army ID Card in the name of Dilip Kumar Rank PPO and a mobile phone from the accused. "On examination of the mobile, it was revealed that the accused had done …

Delhi man arrested for impersonating Army officer, was in contact with foreign nationals
3 years, 6 months ago

Delhi man arrested for impersonating Army officer, was in contact with foreign nationals

India Today  

The Delhi Police on Friday arrested a man for impersonating an Army officer. The matter came to light on Friday afternoon when Sub Inspector Dheeraj received information regarding a person impersonating an Army officer near Archana red light in GK-1. Accused Dilip Kumar, dressed in an Army uniform, was apprehended and a fake ID card and mobile phone were recovered …

Mamata Banerjee promotes one IPS officer posted on central deputation
4 years ago

Mamata Banerjee promotes one IPS officer posted on central deputation

Op India  

Notwithstanding central government’s directive of putting 3 IPS officers on Central deputation following the mob attack on the motorcade of the BJP’s national president JP Nadda earlier this month, the Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool government, which has been at odds with the Centre, arbitrarily promoted one of them and transferred another on Monday. Instead of releasing the 3 IPS officers on …

Man Arrested in Jammu for Posing as NIA Officer, Duping Pulwama Resident
4 years, 1 month ago

Man Arrested in Jammu for Posing as NIA Officer, Duping Pulwama Resident

News 18  

A man was arrested on Sunday for allegedly duping a person after posing as a National Investigation Agency officer here, police said. Mainder Pal, a resident of Chattogram village of Tral in south Kashmir’s Pulwama district, was arrested following a written complaint lodged by Pritam Lal of Amb Gharota, a police spokesperson said. Subsequently, Singh convinced the complainant that one …

Dilli Ka Babu | Cops slug it out to the beat of Bihar poll drum
4 years, 4 months ago

Dilli Ka Babu | Cops slug it out to the beat of Bihar poll drum

Deccan Chronicle  

This looks like a nightmarish end to federalism as we know it. Many experts are of the view that sending a team of Bihar Police personnel to Mumbai after Rajput’s father filed a FIR demanding a probe into the “crime” was out of step. However, some observers believe that Kumar’s unexpected exit from Niti Aayog will cast a cloud over …

The man on top must be firm: Julio Ribeiro on policing
4 years, 5 months ago

The man on top must be firm: Julio Ribeiro on policing

The Hindu  

Having tackled the underworld in Mumbai and Khalistani terror in Punjab, you’d think retired IPS officer Julio Ribeiro would have seen it all. Yet, the Vikas Dubey ‘encounter’ killing in Uttar Pradesh and the custodial deaths of a father and son in Tamil Nadu so shook the 91-year-old “supercop” that he wrote an open letter to his IPS colleagues, calling …

Hyderabad: 2 in race for Sudeep Lakhtakia’s NSG post
5 years, 5 months ago

Hyderabad: 2 in race for Sudeep Lakhtakia’s NSG post

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: With the tenure of Director General of the elite National Security Guards Sudeep Lakhtakia, a Telangana state cadre IPS officer, coming to an end on July 31, the ministry of home affairs under Union home minister Amit Shah has begun the exercise to finalise the name of the new chief for the counter terrorism unit. Ganapathy, an Uttarakhand cadre …

Man arrested for posing as police officer
5 years, 6 months ago

Man arrested for posing as police officer

India TV News  

A 31-year-old man was arrested here for posing as an IPS officer, police said Thursday. He posed as a 2012-batch IPS officer posted as DCP at NIA in Delhi," SHO of Akbarpur police station Rishikant Shukla said. Apart from a Khaki uniform, a fake ID card and a car with police logo and blue-beacon on its roof, and an IPS …

Man posing as IPS officer dupes woman of ₹1 lakh, held
5 years, 9 months ago

Man posing as IPS officer dupes woman of ₹1 lakh, held

Hindustan Times  

The Delhi Police on Friday arrested a man for allegedly posing as an Indian Police Service officer and duping a woman by promising her a job with the Delhi Police. Raj Malhotra, 29, a resident of Kirari, was arrested on the woman’s complaint, the police said. “He also concocted a false story around his family saying that his mother was …

Senior IPS officer Dinkar Gupta appointed new DGP of Punjab
5 years, 11 months ago

Senior IPS officer Dinkar Gupta appointed new DGP of Punjab

India TV News  

Senior IPS officer Dinkar Gupta was on Thursday appointed as the Punjab director general of police. Gupta, a 1987-batch IPS officer, is the senior-most of three officers, all of the same batch, to be empanelled for appointment to the top post by the Union Public Service Commission earlier this week. In his previous stint, Gupta was posted as Director General …

Accused policemen in Ishrat Jahan, Sohrabuddin Shaikh fake encounter cases among six IPS officers promoted by Gujarat government
6 years ago

Accused policemen in Ishrat Jahan, Sohrabuddin Shaikh fake encounter cases among six IPS officers promoted by Gujarat government

Firstpost  

G L Singhal, one of the seven police officers chargesheeted by the Central Bureau of Investigation in Ishrat Jahan case, has been promoted to the rank of inspector general from deputy inspector general of the Commando Training Centre in Gandhinagar Ahmedabad: An accused in the Ishrat Jahan fake encounter case and another who was recently discharged in the Sohrabuddin Shaikh …

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