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Judge killed, colleague injured as car collides with tractor-trolley in Madhya Pradesh
•Rishi Tiwari and Ashish Mathoria, both posted as Judicial Magistrate First Class (JMFC) in Bada Malhera, were travelling to Chhatarpur when their car collided with a stationary tractor-trolley near Para Chowki, said police
Gadchiroli Files: Maharashtra police start comic strip to counter Naxal propaganda
Fp Staff •The brainchild of Gadchiroli superintendent of police (SP) Ankit Goyal, the comic series focuses on different issues of youth, women, farmers, students, and the people of the area
Top leader Milind Teltumbde among 26 Maoists killed in Gadchiroli encounter
•The C-60 police commando team recovered bodies of 26 Naxals after the encounter and Teltumbde, one of the wanted accused in the Elgar Parishad-Maoist links case, was suspected to be among the dead
Tiger Shroff, Disha Patani booked for violating pandemic norms by roaming at public place
Fp Staff •Tiger Shroff was found roaming near the Bandra bandstand in the evening, hours after the 2 PM deadline for restrictions on the movement of people outside their houses without a valid reason, police officials said
Bhima Koregaon arrests: Letters can't be evidence of conspiracy till probe proves activist-CPI (Maoist) collusion
Greeshma Kuthar •While the letters seized during the Bhima Koregaon raids, the veracity of which have to be proved in a trial, suggest alleged organisational affiliation of some of the arrested individuals, how these letters attribute organisational role of the CPI (Maoist) party in Elgar Parishad by way of which they directly provoked the violence in Bhima Koregaon as stated by the Maharshtra Police is unclear.
Bhima Koregaon violence: Dalit intellectuals dismiss Maharashtra Police's claims of instigation by radical Left
Greeshma Kuthar •The base of all the press statements made by the Maharashtra Police is that these ‘Maoists and Maoist-sympathisers’ instigated Dalits to riot at Bhima Koregaon, through their anti-State songs at Elgar Parishad, a programme organised by individuals and organisations in Pune on 31 December, 2017, a day before commemoration of Shourya Divas at Bhima Koregaon.
Plea alleging Sambhaji Bhide's direct involvement in Bhima Koregaon riots still pending hearing; petitioner moves Bombay HC
Greeshma Kuthar •The complainant in the Bhima-Koregaon riots, Anita Ravindra Sawale, whose FIR landed accused Milind Ekbote in prison, has moved the division bench of the Bombay High Court seeking arrest of accused No.1 in the FIR — Sambhaji Bhide.
Ex-Mumbai CP Param Bir Singh accuses home minister Anil Deshmukh of 'malpractices' in letter to Thackeray
Fp Staff •Deshmukh, however, has denied the allegations and accused the former Mumbai Police commissioner of trying to "save himself" as investigations on Waze are leading to him as well
Mumbai police commissioner Param Bir Singh transferred to Home Guard; Hemant Nagrale to take charge
•Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh made the announcement on Twitter amid speculation in the media over Singh's handling of the Sachin Waze episode
Maharashtra: Police raids hookah parlour in Thane, arrests 18 for violating COVID-19 protocol
•Police said that the accused have been booked under Sections of the Epidemic Diseases Act and for 'negligent conduct with respect to fire or combustible matter'