Dehradun (Uttarakhand) [India], September 14 (ANI): The number of passengers on Char Dham Yatra and Hemkund Sahib Yatra has already crossed 35 lakhs, with a month to go before the journey ends, informed the Uttarakhand DGP.

Kochi (Kerala) [India], July 3 (ANI): Swapna Suresh, the prime accused in the Kerala gold smuggling case on Sunday said that she has been receiving threat calls for taking the names of Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, his wife, and his daughter in the case pertaining to the seizure of 30 kilograms of 24-carat gold worth Rs 14.82 crores by the Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs at Thiruvananthapuram Airport on 5 July 2020.

New Delhi Feb 25 PTI The Supreme Court Friday said it would hear on March 11 the CBIs plea against the Kerala High Court order granting anticipatory bail to four persons including a former Director-General of Police DGP in a case about the alleged framing of scientist Nambi Narayanan in the 1994 ISRO espionage caseThe high court had on August 13 last year granted anticipatory bail to former Gujarat DGP R B Sreekumar two former police officers of Kerala -- S Vijayan and Thampi S Durga and a retired intelligence official P S Jayaprakash -- in connection with the caseSreekumar was then the Deputy Director of the Intelligence BureauSolicitor General Tushar Mehta told a bench of Justices A M Khanwilkar and C T Ravikumar that he needed some time as the Additional Solicitor General ASG S V Raju assisting the court in the matter is in some personal difficulty and some documents are still awaitedI need some time Mr Raju ASG is assisting your lordships There is some personal difficulty on his part and otherwise also some documents are awaited Mehta told the benchHe requested the apex court to post the matter after two weeksThe bench said the matter would be heard on March 11The CBI had earlier told the apex court that a grant of anticipatory bail might derail the investigation in the caseThe CBI had said that it has found in its probe that some scientists were tortured and framed in the matter due to which development of the cryogenic engine was hit and this led to Indias space programme going back by almost one or two decadesThe investigating agency had earlier alleged that there was a clear indication that the accused were part of a team which had ulterior motives to torpedo the attempts of the ISRO for manufacturing the cryogenic engineWhile granting anticipatory bail to these accused persons the high court had said There is not even a scintilla of evidence regarding the petitioners being influenced by any foreign power so as to induce them to hatch a conspiracy to falsely implicate the scientists of the ISRO with the intention to stall the activities of the ISRO with regard to the development of the cryogenic engine It had said unless there are specific materials regarding their involvement prima facie it cannot be said that they were acting against the interests of the country The CBI has registered a case against 18 persons for various alleged offences including criminal conspiracy in connection with the arrest and detention of former ISRO scientist Nambi Narayanan in the espionage caseThe case which had hit the headlines in 1994 pertained to allegations of transfer of certain confidential documents on Indias space programme to foreign countries by two scientists and four others including two Maldivian womenNarayanan who was given a clean chit by the CBI had earlier said that the Kerala police had fabricated the case and the technology he was accused to have stolen and sold in the 1994 case did not even exist at that time The CBI in its probe had said that the then top police officials in Kerala were responsible for Narayanans illegal arrestThe apex court had on September 14 2018 appointed a three-member committee while directing the Kerala government to cough up Rs 50 lakh compensation for compelling Narayanan to undergo immense humiliationTerming the police action against the ex-scientist of the Indian Space Research Organisation ISRO as a psycho-pathological treatment the apex court had in September 2018 said that his liberty and dignity basic to his human rights were jeopardised as he was taken into custody and eventually despite all the glory of the past was compelled to face cynical abhorrence PTI ABA ABA RKS RKS

Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], January 1 (ANI): Soumen Mitra, retired former Commissioner of Police, Kolkata, has been appointed as Officer on Special Duty (OSD) and Director, Training on the rank of Director General of Police (DGP) for a period of two years with effect from Saturday.

Chandigarh (Punjab) [India], November 8 (ANI): Slamming Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi-led state government over the progress in the Kotkapura police firing incident, state Congress chief Navjot Singh Sidhu on Monday alleged that it has been six months since the third Special Investigation Team (SIT) was formed to probe the incident but no chargesheet has been filed so far in the case.

Srinagar (Jammu and Kashmir) [India], October 27 (ANI): Union Minister of State for External Affairs and Culture Meenakshi Lekhi who was on a visit to Jammu and Kashmir as part of an outreach programme of the Government of India on Wednesday interacted with Director-General of Police (DGP) and others police officers of the union territory at Srinagar's Humhama, the official statement issued by police media centre said.

Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], September 10 (ANI): West Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar appointed ADG Soumen Mitra to the rank of Director General of Police (DGP) on promotion and posted him as Police Commissioner of Kolkata, informed the state government.

New Delhi [India], August 23 (ANI): The Delhi High Court on Monday granted more time to the Election Commission of India (ECI) to file a reply on a petition seeking action against political leaders and officers who violated COVID-19 norms during assembly election rallies in five states and campaigning held there earlier this year.