2 Tribals Killed In Orissa Police Firing

BHUBANESWAR: At least two tribals were killed on Friday when police opened fire at a mob that attacked a police station in Orissa’s Koraput

More than 300 people allegedly attacked the police station at Narayanpatna, some 500 km from here, to protest frequent police patrolling in their area, considered a hotbed of Maoist activities.

The protesters were activists of the Chasi Mulia Adivasi Sangha, a local tribal group. The police opened fire when the mob tried to loot weapons, Deputy Inspector General of Police Sanjeeb Panda told IANS.

“A mob of about 300 people attacked the police station and tried to loot weapons. Two people were killed in the police firing,” he said.

Force has been deployed in the police station to prevent further attacks. The area is tense but the situation is under control, Panda said.

Police claimed the Chasi Mulia Adivasi Sangha is a Maoist-backed outfit, which has forcibly occupied hundreds of acres of farmland belonging to non-tribals in the district.

While the outfit has denied links with Maoists, they say they are fighting for the rights of tribals in the region.

Jessica Lall Murder Convict Manu Sharma Back In Jail

NEW DELHI: Manu Sharma, convicted in the murder case of Jessica Lall, returned to Tihar jail before the expiration of his probation after assembly

criticism that he violated the rules of probation. This has prompted the Delhi government to ask the police to investigate the allegations.

Santiago, 32, whose two-month probation was to expire on November 22, reported at the prison around 11.45 am, a jail official said above.

Sharma, who was released from prison on Sept. 22 in the floor of the illness of his mother, was seen at a nightclub in a hotel here on Saturday night. Her mother was seen addressing a press conference in Chandigarh last week.

The actor Arjun Rampal, who co-owns a bar in a hotel in the city, confirmed that Manu was seen there.

The reports sparked a major controversy among legal experts and opposition BJP alleging that he was granted parole under “political pressure” by the New Delhi government, a charge strongly denied by Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit, who said which was within the scope of the law.

After criticism, the Delhi government asked the city police to investigate whether Santiago violated the rules of probation out of Chandigarh and pay a visit here.

Santiago should not have been present in Delhi and was given probation on condition he would visit Chandigarh to meet his “sick” mother, a senior Delhi government.

“We have sought a detailed report from Delhi Police on whether Sharma, visited the city,” he said.

Gunmen Attack Police Offices In Pakistan

Lahore: Gunmen attacked the offices of the Pakistani police in the eastern city of Lahore on Thursday, a provincial government official.

“Apparently, four men attacked the building of the FIA and the initial reports that two of them have been killed,” Punjab province home (interior) Secretary Nadeem Hassan Asif told reporters, referring to the Federal Investigation Agency.

A television station said two people were taken hostage and no unconfirmed reports of gunfire in the second of the city police station.

Gunmen also attacked a police station two of the city, an official said.

A suicide car bombing the building of the same attackd FIA in Lahore in March last year killed 21 people.

Shortly before the attack in Lahore, a suicide car bomber set off his explosives outside a police station in the northwestern town of Kohat on Thursday, killing 10 people, police and military officials.

“Some school children were among the dead,” a policeman at the scene.

Earlier, a U.S. drone aircraft suspect fired two missiles at a house in North Waziristan region on the Afghan border Thursday, killing four militants, Pakistani intelligence officials.

The violence came as the Pakistani army is preparing an offensive against Taliban militants in neighboring Pakistan’s South Waziristan.

The government says most of the attacks in the country – including four major since 5 October that killed more than 100 people – are plotted in South Waziristan on the Afghan border.

The drone fired at a house of 3 km (2 miles) north of Miranshah, the main town in North Waziristan, and at least three members of the Afghan Taliban were among four killed, officials said.

“The homeowner is a member of the Haqqani network,” said one intelligence officials, referring to veteran Afghan militant commander Jalaluddin Haqqani, whose men attacking foreign forces in most of eastern Afghanistan.

The United States, struggling with the insurgency escalates in Afghanistan, frustrated over the failure of Pakistan to eliminate Taliban sanctuaries on its side of the border, strengthen the attacks of his aircraft in September last year.

42 drone strikes have launced this year compared with 32 last year, according to a Reuters count of reports of Pakistani security and district government officials and residents.

Hundreds of people, mostly militants but including some civilians, have died.

Pakistani Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud was killed by a U.S. drone aircraft in August.

Pakistan officially opposes drone strikes, saying they violate its sovereignty. Also concerned the attacks could undermine efforts to tackle militancy and civilian casualties inflame public anger.

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17 Policemen Kills Naxals In Gadchiroli

Nagpur: At least 17 policemen were killed in Gadchiroli on Thursday when two hundred Naxals swooped down on a police post in the Lahiri area of Bhamragadh taluka in the district. The dead include one sub-inspector and sixteen constables of the C-60 anti-Naxal force raised by Maharashtra.

The ambush that occurred in at around 1 pm went on for over three hours in the heavily forested area of Lahiri as the policemen went about checking election preparations. At least three security personnel are reported injured.

Rescue mission was launched as soon as report of the attack came with the government sending four helicopters to the spot and a massive manhunt has been launched to to weed out the attackers.. The area has been sealed so that the Naxals don’t escape the area.

Maharashtra DGP SS Virk told a TV channel that the slain policemen’s bodies had not been retrieved yet.

The attack occurred barely hours after Maoists set ablaze a gram panchyat office in the area. The extremists torched the office at Ramgarh under Purada police station and fled from the scene, they said, quoting initial reports.

The incident comes two days after the beheading of Jharkhand police officer Francis Induwar. Home Minister P Chidambaram had yesterday said the security forces will engage the Maoists till they abjure violence and the air force will take steps to protect itself from any Naxal attacks.

Flash Floods Hit Indonesia: Police

JAKARTA: Flash floods inundated hundreds of houses in the Indonesian province of Central Sulawesi on Thursday but there were no reports of casualties, said police.

Powerful water broke after the river overflowed and crashed Tuwele through nearly 500 houses in Tolitolwwi, Asnan Mokodompis police told AFP.

“Our rescue teams continue to check on flood victims,” he said, adding that about 1,500 people had been forced to flee their homes.

Floods and landslides are common in Indonesia, which is densely populated and prone to frequent heavy rains.

Activists have warned that logging and lack of reforestation of the bare dirt of the world’s fourth most populous country are often to blame.

Kills At Least 10 In Kohat Suicide Blast: Police

PESHAWAR: A suicide car bomb killed at least 10 people after breaking through stores and vehicles in a market in Kohat on Friday, police said.

“A suicide bomber detonated explosives-packed car in the market. Ten people were killed and many wounded,” said Ali Hasan, a local police officer in the city where the attack occurred Ustazai.

“We have recovered 14 bodies. Many people were injured. The suicide bomber was sitting in a car,” said police spokesman Naeem Fazal in the nearby garrison town of Kohat.

Bollywood Star Shiney Ahuja All Set To Undergo DNA Test: Police

Mumbai: Bollywood Star Shiney Ahuja now under police costudy for Sex With his housmaid. Finally he is all set to undergo A DNA test which may provide more information to solve the problem. Its confirmed by Mumbai police that maid’s age according to her school certificate her real age 20 years old said police.

6 Mln Euros’ Jewels Stolen From Paris: Police

PARIS: Jewellery worth some six million euros (8.4 million dollars) was stolen in a hold-up Saturday at the elite Chopard store in Paris’s Place Vendome, police said.

The theft happened at around 3 pm (1300 GMT) at the premises near the Ritz Hotel, an official at the Paris police headquarters said, giving no details.

Chopard makes watches and jewels for the stars and has branches in most of the world’s capitals.

In December thieves staged a record 100-million-dollar jewel heist at the Harry Winston boutique in the posh Avenue Montaigne of the Champs-Elysees.

Suspicion fell on the international gang known as the Pink Panthers.

Police to Return bribe with 9% Intrest

SONEPAT: Eleven years ago, when SHO Gulshan Rai and assistant sub-inspector Rao Ramkumar winked at murder accused Mukesh Kumar, asking the terrified man to shell out Rs 30,000 to escape torture at the police station, they hardly knew they would one day have to actually return to the victim not just the principal amount but add interest of a healthy 9%.

In a spectacular ruling, perhaps the first of its kind, a Sonepat court has ordered both the cops to return the bribe, along with the interest, to a relieved Mukesh.

On February 16, 1998, the city police arrested Mukesh after a murder victim’s kin accused him of involvement in the crime. It was during his three-day remand that Mukesh agreed to pay Rs 30,000 to Rai and Rao, his interrogators, so that he wouldn’t be tortured.

But tortured he was. “Though I did as told, they still inflicted third degree on me,” Mukesh said in his suit filed before a civil court soon after his discharge in the case on March 23, 1998.

Handing out the judgment, the court of civil judge (senior division) R P Goyal directed Rai and Rao to return the hush money to Mukesh. The court issued simultaneous directions for continuation of criminal proceedings against them. It’s a different matter, though, that while Rao is already dead, Rai has retired from service.