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TopicDelhi Police commissioner

Topic: Delhi Police commissioner

Senior IPS officer Satish Golcha takes charge as Delhi’s new Police Commissioner

In Golcha's first interaction with senior officials after assuming charge, he directed the force to remain vigilant & ensured better coordination across units to maintain peace & security.

CM Sai’s serendipitous encounter with Left leaders & Rajeev Shukla to wait longer to become BCCI chief

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Why Delhi court pulled up cops for ‘casual attitude’ in probing case against minister Kapil Mishra

Mishra was accused of promoting communal enmity. The court said it had no option but to bring this “state of affairs” to the Delhi Police commissioner’s notice.

Monitoring interstate gangs & criminals, specially from Bangladesh — security measures for 77th I-Day

Officers at a high-level meeting in Delhi also talked about intelligence sharing on recently stolen vehicles, arms dealers and couriers delivered to unspecified addresses, it is learnt.

After magistrate summons cop ‘300+ times’, Delhi court sets aside order — ‘must stop this practice’

Order by district & sessions judge came on a revision petition filed by a station house officer called to assist the court. His lawyer says it disrupted his daily policing duties.

Former ITBP DG, part of task force against Veerappan — Sanjay Arora is Delhi’s new police chief

Arora, of the 1988 IPS batch, was appointed chief of the national capital’s police force by the Ministry of Home Affairs Sunday. He took charge Monday.

HC seeks Modi govt, Asthana’s stand on plea against his appointment as Delhi Police chief

Opposing the PIL, Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, appearing for the Central govt, said the petition before the Delhi HC seemed to be a copy-paste of the one pending in the apex court.

SC asks HC to decide on plea against Rakesh Asthana’s appointment as Delhi Police chief

The top court gave Delhi High Court two weeks to decide on plea challenging Gujarat-cadre IPS officer Asthana's appointment on 27 July that came four days before his superannuation.

HC informed about plea filed in SC against Asthana’s appointment as Delhi Police chief

Advocate Prashant Bhushan made the submission in response to the high court's 18 August query on whether any other plea over Asthana's appointment is pending before any court.

NGO moves SC against Rakesh Asthana’s appointment as Delhi Police chief

The petition, moved by advocate Prashant Bhushan, also urged the apex court to set aside the Centre’s order to extend Gujarat-cadre IPS officer Rakesh Asthana’s service period.

On Camera

On Arundhati Roy, mother-daughter conflicts, and the burden of being a ‘good mother’

When reading the book, one can see Roy’s mother as a 'fascist government' unto herself, the centre of her own cult. In Arundhati’s words, Mary Roy was ‘mother guru’.

A Rs 33,000 cr ‘banking fraud’: ED’s case against Arvind Dham, Amtek’s web of ‘500 shell companies’

ED has accused Amtek promoter Arvind Dham of controlling web of nearly 500 shell companies operating as a layered structure, with up to 15 levels of indirect ownership, to divert funds.

‘Loyal wingman’ to full ICBM triad & air defence, China’s show of power at Victory Day parade

China flaunted military might & modernisation as it displayed stealth drones, anti-satellite system & cyber warfare contingent during parade to mark victory over Japan in WWII.

For Indian Mercedes, Asim Munir’s dumper truck in mirror is closer than it appears

From Munir’s point of view, a few bumps here and there is par for the course. He isn’t going to drive his dumper truck to its doom. He wants to use it as a weapon.