Wanted Criminal Escapes

A boss from one of Italy's most violent mafias who escaped from a maximum security prison last year has been captured in France, authorities in both countries said on Friday.

Two personnel from Dabolim airport police station in Goa were placed under suspension after an accused wanted by Punjab police in an Arms Act case escaped from their custody, an official said on Saturday.

A BJP leader in Uttar Pradesh's Kanpur town faces a police case for allegedly helping a wanted criminal escape after his arrest.

Eight people allegedly surrounded a police jeep and forcibly took away a wanted history-sheeter while he was being taken to a police station in Uttar Pradesh's Kanpur district on Wednesday, an official said.

Four wanted criminals, including the kingpin of their gang, were killed in an encounter in south Delhi's Chhatarpur area, police said. Eight Delhi police personnel were also injured in the gunfight that followed at a farmhouse where they were hiding.

In a scene that wouldn't be out of place in the 'Dhoom' series, a criminal escaped the police on a bike where the license plate bore the legend 'XFELON'.

Police on Sunday came close to nabbing William Sangma, a hardcore criminal wanted in Assam and Meghalaya for kidnappings and extortions but he managed to escape, an official said.

Shots rang out early this morning near a metro station in south Delhi as the police chased a wanted criminal with a Rs 25,000 reward on him. The man, Akbar, was arrested after the encounter.

Notorious criminal and serial rapist Jaishankar was today remanded in 10-day police custody by a city court after police said they wanted to question him at length about his dramatic escape from the Bangalore central prison.

In an unprecedented development, underworld don and India's most wanted criminal Dawood Ibrahim's younger brother Mustakim has in all likelihood escaped from Karachi and fled to Dubai in the United Arab Emirates, say Mumbai police sources.

A boss from one of Italy's most violent mafias who escaped from a maximum security prison last year has been captured in France, authorities in both countries said on Friday.

Two personnel from Dabolim airport police station in Goa were placed under suspension after an accused wanted by Punjab police in an Arms Act case escaped from their custody, an official said on Saturday.

A BJP leader in Uttar Pradesh's Kanpur town faces a police case for allegedly helping a wanted criminal escape after his arrest.

Eight people allegedly surrounded a police jeep and forcibly took away a wanted history-sheeter while he was being taken to a police station in Uttar Pradesh's Kanpur district on Wednesday, an official said.

Four wanted criminals, including the kingpin of their gang, were killed in an encounter in south Delhi's Chhatarpur area, police said. Eight Delhi police personnel were also injured in the gunfight that followed at a farmhouse where they were hiding.

In a scene that wouldn't be out of place in the 'Dhoom' series, a criminal escaped the police on a bike where the license plate bore the legend 'XFELON'.

Police on Sunday came close to nabbing William Sangma, a hardcore criminal wanted in Assam and Meghalaya for kidnappings and extortions but he managed to escape, an official said.

Shots rang out early this morning near a metro station in south Delhi as the police chased a wanted criminal with a Rs 25,000 reward on him. The man, Akbar, was arrested after the encounter.

Notorious criminal and serial rapist Jaishankar was today remanded in 10-day police custody by a city court after police said they wanted to question him at length about his dramatic escape from the Bangalore central prison.

In an unprecedented development, underworld don and India's most wanted criminal Dawood Ibrahim's younger brother Mustakim has in all likelihood escaped from Karachi and fled to Dubai in the United Arab Emirates, say Mumbai police sources.