AIG SSOC SAS Nagar Ashwani Kapur said "They have received intel-based inputs that some members of Lawrence Bishnoi gang are making threatening calls to extort businessmen and influential persons of Punjab and adjoining states, and are also planning to execute target killing in the area."
All the arrested persons are involved in at least five murder cases including Makhan murder cases, which took place in Nawanshahr in March 2022, besides, five cases of other heinous crimes including attempt to murder, Arms Act, carjacking and extortion.
According to Pranab Jyoti Goswami, CPRO of Assam police, the arrested police officers have been identified as Shiddhartha Buragohain, IPS, the then Superintendent of Police of Bajali district and Pushkal Gogoi, APS, the then Deputy Superintendent of Police (HQ).
The accused has been identified as Sandeep, a resident of Haryana's Sonipat, who is allegedly involved in more than a dozen cases, including that for an attempt to murder, robbery and extortion, as per the police.
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has carried out search operations at 17 locations in Chandigarh, Panchkula, Zirakpur and SAS Nagar Mohali belonging to Anil Bhalla and others, in an investigation relating to involvement of unscrupulous persons involved in illicit drug dealings, possessing il
Chief Minister Manik Saha on Tuesday chaired a review meeting on 'Law and Order' with the top officials of the police department, directing them to make the state 'mafia-free'.
The booked police officers allegedly demanded a bribe of Rs 10 lakhs from two youths from Kerala to avoid arrest in a case registered against them in Bengaluru, Karnataka.
DCP Dwarka M Harsha Vardhan said that on July 18, an incident regarding a demand of Rs 40 lakhs was reported at Bindapur police station wherein the complainant stated that he received a Whatsapp call on his number from a mobile number. During the call, the extortionist threatened to kill the