Uttarakhand Police have arrested three persons, including Uttarakhand Jal Sansthan suspended engineer, for alleged negligence which led to the electrocution mishap at the sewage treatment plant under Namami Gange project on the banks of Alakananda River at Gopeshwar on Wednesday which caused
Partha Sarathi Mahanta, DIG of STF told ANI that, based on secret information the Kamrup district police late Saturday night launched an operation and recovered 700 grams of heroin from a vehicle and arrested three drug peddlers.
A gang leader and two of his associates were arrested after an exchange of fire with Mathura police and Special Operation Group on Saturday here under Kosikalan police station area, said police.
According to the Director General of Police (DGP) Gaurav Yadav, the police arrested the three accused including Gurmej Singh, the driver of the car carrying the four assailants who shot dead gangster Jarnail Singh at his native Sathiala village in Baba Bakala sub-division of Amritsar distric
"Based on the intelligence input Odisha STF apprehended three accused persons from Nayagarh and Jajpur District and they have been identified as Pathanisamant Lenka, (35) works as ITI Teacher, Saroj Kumar Nayak, (26) and Soumya Pattanaik, (19)" STF said.
The police said, "The deceased allegedly demanded sexual favours from the wife of one of the accused identified as Kavendar by offering Rs 500 in return, due to which there was a conflict between them which led to the murder."
The arrested accused have been identified as Chandra Dev Pandey(23), a resident of Delhi's Shashtri Nagar, Vivek Kumar (28), and Vipin Yadav (24) - both natives of Amroha, Uttar Pradesh, police said.
According to the police, a team of Special Cell busted the interstate firearms syndicate to cut the supply line of illegal firearms being brought to Delhi NCR, Punjab and adjoining states by Madhya Pradesh.
According to the officials, the youth had gone to a nearby village where people caught him and started assaulting him on the basis of some theft suspicion.