Rathore Stabbed outside Chandigarh Court

Former Haryana police chief S.P.S. Rathore was injured in the face when he was stabbed outside the district court complex here Monday. He was coming out of court after appearing in the Ruchika Girhotra molestation case, for which he has been convicted.(IANS)

Cyber crime on the rise

CHANDIGARH: Punjab Police will have to take a lesson or two in handling virtual crime sooner than it thinks it should. The IT-propelled e-revolution in Punjab has brought along with it cyber criminals with specializations ranging from online frauds to hacking.
Data provided by Punjab Police makes it amply clear that cyber-thugs are here to stay [...]

Haryana police booked six most wanted gangsters

Haryana police booked six most wanted gangsters
CHANDIGARH:Haryana Police has arrested six most wanted accused of an Inter-State Gang while they were planning to commit a dacoity in district Yamunanagar and recovered three 12 bore guns, five alive cartages, one khukri and a without number Indica Car from their possession.
While giving the details here on Thursday, [...]

High alert in Haryana and Punjab after blast

High alert in Haryana and Punjab after blast
CHANDIGARH: Haryana and Punjab have been put on high alert after an attack on Dera Sacha Sauda chief Baba Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh`s cavalcade in Karnal district last evening.
The police said that though Baba Rahim escaped unhurt, eight people, including six security men, were injured in the attack.
The [...]

Murder accused gets 3-day police remand

Panchkula: Snehlata, wife of Padam who was found murdered at a farm house near here last week, was remanded in three-day police custody by additional chief judicial magistrate Ritu Garg at the local court here today. She was arrested on charges of murdering her husband yesterday.
According to police, Snehlata had strained relations with her husband [...]

Cops hone skills to deal with cyber crime

Chandigarh: Various techniques, concepts and measures pertaining to cyber crime, computer forensics, handwriting’s significance in forgery, counterfeit currency were among the lessons taught to the officials of the Chandigarh Police. The workshop was held at the Central Forensic Sciences Laboratory, Sector 36, during a day-long session on “White Collar and Cyber Crime”.
The session was organised [...]

Cashier looted of Rs 5 lakh at gunpoint

Panchkula: Criminals looted more than Rs 5 lakh from the cashier of Berkely Automobiles, a dealer in Maruti cars, here today. The cashier, accompanied by the driver, was robbed when he was going to deposit the money in a bank in Sector 11 market.
The robbers, in their thirties, threw a stone on the car, damaging [...]

Dimpy murder: Police zero in on former friend

Chandigarh: After 17 months of investigation in the murder of Punjab-based gangster Prabhjinder Singh Dimpy, UT Police have zeroed in on a Bathinda resident considered to be Dimpy’s confidant-turned-enemy. Rocky, however, is still at large.
Till a few years ago, Rocky was working with Dimpy when the former was affiliated with UP-based gangster Mukhtar Ansari’s group, [...]

Couple assaulted; accused at large

Chandigarh: The police booked a group of persons of Sector 25 on the charges of rioting and causing hurt for allegedly assaulting their neighbours this morning.
The police said Kala of Sector 25 colony reported, alleging that Rinku, Saroj and Ravi along with others, hurled a brick at him last night and assaulted him. He let [...]

House in Sector 38-C burgled

Chandigarh: Thieves decamped with Rs 1.50 lakh and jewellery after breaking into a house in Sector 38-C.
Vijay of Sector 38-C has reported to the police that Rs 1.50 lakh and four tolas of gold were stolen from his house during the intervening night of January 8 and 9.
He told the police that the thieves gained [...]