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  • Why CISF Constable Kulwinder Kaur Slapped Mandi BJP MP Kangana Ranaut? |

    New Delhi: The recent incident at Chandigarh airport in which actor-turned-politician Kangana Ranaut was allegedly slapped by the CISF official named LCT Kulwinder Kaur. Kangana won from Mandi Lok Sabha seats and at the time of the incident she was flying to Delhi to attend NDA’s meeting. 

    Following the incident, a complaint has been filed to Punjab police against the CISF women constable and DSP Airport Kuljinder Singh and DSP Harsimran Singh are investigating the case.

    Reportedly, the women constable was upset with the BJP leader for saying against the farmer’s protest.

    In a video gone viral on social media, Kulwinder Kaur can be heard saying, “She (Kangana Ranaut) gave a statement… that farmers are sitting there for ₹ 100. Will she go and sit there? My mother was sitting there and protesting when she gave this statement…”

    Meanwhile, Kangana has arrived at Delhi airport ahead of the meeting of the NDA scheduled tomorrow in Parliament’s central hall. She defeated Congress leader Vikramaditya Singh from Himachal Pradesh’s Mandi constituency with a margin of 74,755 votes. Kangana received 5,37,022 votes while Singh got 4,62,267 votes, as per the ECI data. 

  • Bomb threat on flight from Moscow, passengers, crew evacuated 

    By PTI

    NEW DELHI: A bomb threat on a flight arriving from Moscow was received by the CISF at the international airport here in the early hours of Friday, police said.

    According to the police, the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) received an e-mail warning of a bomb on the flight.

    The flight landed at the Delhi airport between 3 and 4 am, and its 386 passengers and 14 crew members were immediately evacuated, a senior police official said.

    The flight was checked and nothing has been found so far, the official said, adding that the aircraft has been isolated.

    NEW DELHI: A bomb threat on a flight arriving from Moscow was received by the CISF at the international airport here in the early hours of Friday, police said.

    According to the police, the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) received an e-mail warning of a bomb on the flight.

    The flight landed at the Delhi airport between 3 and 4 am, and its 386 passengers and 14 crew members were immediately evacuated, a senior police official said.

    The flight was checked and nothing has been found so far, the official said, adding that the aircraft has been isolated.

  • 1 dead, another injured as CISF jawan fires at colleagues at Kolkata museum

    By Express News Service

    KOLKATA: A CISF constable, part of the central force deployed to guard the premises of Indian Museum in Kolkata, opened fire indiscriminately from his service rifle killing one officer of the force on Saturday evening. Another officer was also injured in the firing. Police had to struggle for one-and-a-half-hours to bring the gun-toting constable under control.

    One of the bullets fired by the constable pierced through the windshield of a vehicle of Kolkata Police.

    The deceased, identified as Ranjit Kumar Saraogi, was an officer of assistant sub-inspector rank and the injured, identified as Sudip Ghosh, is an assistant commandant

    Commissioner of Kolkata police Vineet Goyal rushed to the museum wearing bullet-proof jacket along with senior police officials.

    “We came to know about the firing around 6.30 pm inside the premises of the museum. A large contingent of police force rushed and tried to take control of the situation. They successfully convinced the constable and disarmed him. We arrested the accused constable. Preliminarily it appears the constable fired around 15 rounds of bullets from his service rifle,” said Goyal.   

    A team of commandos of Kolkata police, comprising 30 personnel, arrived the museum premises. The power connection of the area where the constable was hiding was disconnected and tear gas shells were lobbed.

    Goyal said the reason behind the incident is yet-to-be ascertained.

    KOLKATA: A CISF constable, part of the central force deployed to guard the premises of Indian Museum in Kolkata, opened fire indiscriminately from his service rifle killing one officer of the force on Saturday evening. Another officer was also injured in the firing. Police had to struggle for one-and-a-half-hours to bring the gun-toting constable under control.

    One of the bullets fired by the constable pierced through the windshield of a vehicle of Kolkata Police.

    The deceased, identified as Ranjit Kumar Saraogi, was an officer of assistant sub-inspector rank and the injured, identified as Sudip Ghosh, is an assistant commandant

    Commissioner of Kolkata police Vineet Goyal rushed to the museum wearing bullet-proof jacket along with senior police officials.

    “We came to know about the firing around 6.30 pm inside the premises of the museum. A large contingent of police force rushed and tried to take control of the situation. They successfully convinced the constable and disarmed him. We arrested the accused constable. Preliminarily it appears the constable fired around 15 rounds of bullets from his service rifle,” said Goyal.   

    A team of commandos of Kolkata police, comprising 30 personnel, arrived the museum premises. The power connection of the area where the constable was hiding was disconnected and tear gas shells were lobbed.

    Goyal said the reason behind the incident is yet-to-be ascertained.

  • Five held in Uttar Pradesh for using unfair means in CISF exam

    By PTI

    SONBHADRA: Five people were arrested for using unfair means in a written exam for recruitment of personnel in the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF), police said on Sunday.

    Superintendent of Police Amrendra Prasad Singh said that three of the accused forged documents to appear in the physical exam while two of them hired solvers to sit in the written exam in their place.

    The exam was conducted on Saturday.

    The CISF officials have lodged a case regarding the matter at Shaktinagar police station.

    The arrested accused were identified as Bharat Kumar Yadav, Adarsh Kumar Yadav, Durgesh Chauhan, Vikas Kumar and Rakesh Kumar Yadav.

    The accused, booked under relevant sections of IPC, were arrested with joint efforts of district police, vigilance department and CISF officials.

  • Maharashtra independent MP Navneet Rana, ISRO chairman S Somanath get CISF cover

    By ANI

    NEW DELHI: Maharashtra Member of Parliament, Navneet Rana, and Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) chairman S Somanath were accorded armed VIP security cover by the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF), sources said.

    Rana was provided ‘Y’ category all India security cover on April 14 while Somnath was accorded ‘Y+’ category all India security cover on April 18. Both Rana and Somnath were provided Central security cover after a threat analysis by the Ministry of Home Affairs in its recent VIP security meet.

    Rana, a former Indian actress who mainly acted in Telugu cinema, is an elected Member of Parliament from Amravati in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections as an independent candidate.

    Eminent aerospace engineer and rocket scientist Somanath, who also holds charge of secretary of the Department of Space for a joint tenure of three years, recently succeeded Kailasavadivoo Sivan as the new ISRO chairman.

    Somanath is an expert in a host of disciplines including launch vehicle design. He has specialised in Launch Vehicle Systems engineering, structural design, structural dynamics, integration designs and procedures, mechanism design, and pyrotechnics.

  • Over 2000 cops in Maharashtra, Delhi contract COVID; more than 9000 CISF personnel take booster jabs

    By PTI

    MUMBAI/DELHI: At least 370 police personnel tested positive for coronavirus infection in Maharashtra in the last 24 hours, an official said on Wednesday evening.

    Those infected included 60 officers and 310 constables, he said.

    At present, a total of 504 officers and 1,678 constables are undergoing treatment for coronavirus infection across the state.

    Since the start of the pandemic, a total of 48,611 staff of Maharashtra Police (6,204 officers and 42,407 constables) have caught the viral infection.

    As many as 46 officers and 458 constables died due to COVID-19.

    Maharashtra recorded 46,723 fresh coronavirus cases on Wednesday, up more than 27 per cent from a day ago.

    A whopping 1,700 Delhi Police personnel have tested positive for the coronavirus infection since January 1, officials said on Wednesday, adding that a special camp has been organised to administer booster doses to staffers of the police headquarters.

    The Delhi Police force comprises over 80,000 personnel, police said.

    “A total of 1,700 personnel of the force have tested positive for the infection from January 1 to January 12. All of them are doing fine and are under quarantine. They will be joining duty after recovery,” a senior police officer said.

    A special camp was organised for administering booster shots to frontline workers of the Delhi Police, the staffers working at its headquarters on Jai Singh Marg, they said.

    “Special arrangements for administering precaution dose (booster) of Covid vaccine was organised from 11:30 am onwards at officers’ lounge on the ground floor of the PHQ.

    This initiative was taken so that staffers like guards among others deployed at our headquarters do not have to go outside during their duty hours to get booster shots.

    “But only those eligible police personnel, who have completed nine months after taking their second dose of vaccine, would be eligible for the booster shots,” Special Commissioner of Police (Welfare) Shalini Singh said.

    According to police, total 396 personnel were given the booster dose, including a number of senior officers.

    The special camp will continue on Thursday as well.

    Similarly, vaccination camps will be organised at all the Delhi Police Wellness Centres and Covid Care Centres across Delhi to ensure full coverage of all eligible Delhi Police personnel at the earliest, police added.

    In a meeting held on Tuesday with senior officers of districts and other units, the officers were strictly instructed to brief their personnel to take care of themselves and follow the Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) to prevent coronavirus amid rising cases among the force, police said.

    “We have issued detailed SOPs in this regard and have listed the preventive measures to be taken. In Tuesday’s meeting, all the officers were asked to take care of themselves and the force to conduct briefings of staffers regularly and instruct them to follow the issued SOP strictly.”

    “Being frontline workers, they are bound to perform their duties so they should do it with full precautions,” Singh asserted.

    She further stressed that officers have been instructed to strictly convey to their personnel the importance of following social distancing, wearing masks and maintaining hand hygiene while on duty.

    “We have also told the personnel that social distancing should be maintained while they are in their respective barracks and mess. They have been asked to sanitise their keys after their shift while they handover vehicles to the next shift incharge,” the officer said.

    In another welfare initiative and to provide assistance to the Delhi Police personnel and their families, all personnel were informed about Delhi Police Wellness Centres functioning in places like Hauz Khas, Dwarka, Model Town, Shalimar Bagh, Kondli and Security Section in Vinay Marg, police said.

    All the personnel were also directed to contact the respective in-charge of their unit for uploading the date of second dose of vaccination as mentioned in Covid vaccine certificate, they said.

    “All police personnel are also informed about the counsellors available for providing Covid-related counselling and for uplifting mental health of the personnel and their families. They have been provided with names and contact details of the counsellors who would be available for them,” Singh said.

    Additional Commissioner of Police (Crime) Chinmoy Biswal, who is also the spokesperson of the force, tested positive for the infection.

    He is currently doing fine and under quarantine.

    Delhi Police Commissioner Rakesh Asthana had on January 5 issued the SOPs for the force to follow to tackle the pandemic.

    According to this order, all police personnel and their eligible family members who have not been vaccinated, may be motivated to complete the vaccination process.

    “Those who have not been vaccinated due to medical reasons may be encouraged to seek medical opinion again for vaccination,” the order had said.

    All police personnel may be motivated to take the precaution dose of the Covid vaccine and install and use the Aarogya Setu mobile app mandatorily, it saod.

    Self-monitoring to be adopted by police personnel and any kind of illness may be reported without fail, to daily health monitoring officer, the order added.

    The Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) that guards the country’s major civil airports and other vital installations has provided the precautionary or booster Covid vaccine jabs to more than 9,000 personnel since these doses were launched countrywide on January 10, a senior officer said on Wednesday.

    Out of these, 2,500 personnel belong to the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) security wing, its largest unit in the country in terms of number of personnel deployed.

    The about 1.62 lakh personnel strength central force that functions under the Union home ministry has deployed more than 12,000 male and female personnel in the DMRC unit.

    The force, according to official data recorded till Tuesday, has the highest number of active coronavirus cases, at 1,550, among the Central Armed Police Forces (CAPFs) that includes the CRPF, BSF, ITBP and SSB apart from the NSG and the NDRF.

    The total active cases in these forces are 4,539 with the CRPF having 1,198 infections, BSF 729, SSB 555, ITBP 311, NDRF 157 and NSG 39.

    “The CISF has already vaccinated over 9,000 of its personnel with the booster dose across the country to enhance protection against coronavirus infection.”

    “The vaccination drive is running across all the 353 CISF units including 64 airports and we will ensure that 100 per cent of our eligible personnel are inoculated at the earliest with the precautionary dose,” an official spokesperson said.

    He said that “CISF warriors have being dealing with the COVID-19 menace, particularly at the Delhi Metro and airports, as front liners and have highest vulnerability due to exposure and contacts with the passengers”.

    “More than 12,000 personnel are deployed in the DMRC unit of CISF to ensure safety of passengers and property of Delhi Metro that connects the national capital to neighbouring districts of Uttar Pradesh and Haryana and provides mass rapid transit to more than 35 lakh passengers daily,” he added.

    It is expected, the officer said, that all eligible personnel of DMRC unit will get their booster vaccine by January, 20.

    India began administering the precaution dose of COVID-19 vaccine to healthcare workers, frontline workers including personnel deployed for election duty and those aged 60 and above with co-morbidities from January 10 as a spike in coronavirus infections fuelled by the Omicron variant of the virus is being witnessed.

  • CISF sub-inspector held with pangolin scales in Chhattisgarh

    By PTI

    RAIPUR: A sub-inspector of the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) was arrested for allegedly smuggling pangolin scales in Raipur, forest officials said on Thursday.

    Acting on a specific tip-off, a joint team of the Wildlife Crime Control Bureau and Chhattisgarh’s forest department caught the accused, Jitendra Koch, in Jaistambh Chowk area here on Wednesday night when he was looking for customers to sell the pangolin scales.

    The wildlife and forest officials seized pangolin scales weighing about 3.5 kg from the accused, a native of Madhya Pradesh, who was deployed at the Swami Vivekananda Airport in Raipur, the officials said.

    The pangolin, also known as scaly ant-eater, is protected under Schedule 1 of the Wildlife (Protection) Act.

    According to forest officials, the animal’s scales and other body parts are in huge demand in countries like China, Myanmar, Thailand, Malaysia and other places for medicinal use.

    Meanwhile, a case was registered against the accused under provisions of the Wildlife (Protection) Act 1972 and an investigation was on to ascertain from where he procured the pangolin scales, the officials said.

  • Not advisable and feasible to have national level security force for judges: Centre to SC

    By PTI

    NEW DELHI: The Centre Tuesday told the Supreme Court that it may not be “feasible” and “advisable” to have a national level security force like CISF to guard judges across the country.

    Irked over non-filing of responses by various states, the top court said the reply affidavits can be filed within 10 days subject to deposit of fine of Rs one lakh each with the Supreme Court Bar Association Welfare Fund and failing which the chief secretaries will have to appear before it.

    “Counsel appearing for Kerala prays for and is granted 10 days’ time from today to file counter affidavit, subject to the condition that the said State shall pay costs of Rs 1,00,000/­ to be deposited with the Supreme Court Bar Association Advocates’ Welfare Fund.

    “The remaining States which have not filed their counter affidavits so far shall also file the same within a period of 10 days from today, subject to deposit of costs of Rs 1,00,000/­ with the SCBA Welfare Fund, failing which we would be compelled to seek the presence of the Chief Secretaries of the concerned States,” a bench headed by Chief Justice N V Ramana said in the order.

    The bench, also comprising Justices Surya Kant and Aniruddha Bose, was hearing a suo motu case relating to safety and security of judges and lawyers across the country in the wake of mowing down of a judicial officer at Dhanbad and has sought the information from states on steps taken to ensure the safety.

    The top court also permitted the apex bar body, the Bar Council of India, to be a party to the matter and also file its response and listed it for hearing after 10 days.

    At the outset, Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, appearing for the Centre, said the issue concerning safety of judges is a “serious matter”.

    Referring to the reply of the Centre, he said a mechanism has been there and the Union Ministry of Home Affairs, in 2007, had issued the guidelines saying that there should be special units for looking after the security of judges.

    Terming the issue as an administrative one, the bench asked whether the Centre was willing to raise a force like CISF or Railways Protection Force for judges and judicial officers in the country.

    “We have said it may not be advisable or feasible to have a national level security force like CISF (Central Industrial Security Force) for judges,” the law officer said.

    “We have issued guidelines and they are placed on record. Instead of creating a specialised or dedicated police force there is need to ensure fuller implementation of the guidelines of the MHA by states and union territories (UTs),” he said.

    The bench asked the law officer to call a meeting of all the states and take a decision to solve the problem.

    The Solicitor General said that the meeting of either home secretaries or state police chiefs may be called on the issue.

    “You (Centre) are the best person to get this done. States are now saying they do not have funds for CCTVs. These issues you have to resolve between you and the states. We don’t want to call these excuses,” the bench said.

    Earlier, noting “gravity” of the matter, the apex court had asked the Jharkhand High Court Chief Justice to monitor weekly the CBI probe into the alleged mowing down of District and Sessions Judge-8 of Dhanbad court, Uttam Anand by a vehicle on July 28.

    The apex court also referred to the “alarming situation” in the country where judicial officers and lawyers are being pressurized and intimidated, and had said there was an institutional need to create an environment where judicial officers feel safe and secure.

    CCTV footage showed that the judge was jogging on one side of a fairly wide road at Randhir Verma Chowk in Dhanbad early on July 28 when a heavy auto-rickshaw veered towards him, hit him from behind and fled the scene.

    He was declared dead by the hospital.

    The Jharkhand government has transferred the probe to the CBI.

    The bench had also said: “Apart from the specific incident in question, this Court had also taken up this matter to take note of attempt(s) to resolve the alarming situation in the country where judicial officers and lawyers are being pressurized and intimidated by threats of, and/or actual violence.”

    “There is, therefore, an institutional need to create an environment where judicial officers feel safe and secure”.

    On August 6, the CJI-led bench had expressed concern over the incidents of judges getting threats and abusive messages and had said that Intelligence Bureau (IB) and the CBI are “not helping” the judiciary at all and there is no freedom to a judicial officer to even make such complaints.

    It said there are several criminal cases involving gangsters and high-profile persons and at some places, judges of the trial courts as well as high courts are being threatened not only physically but also mentally through abusive messages on Whatsapp or Facebook.

    Prior to this, the top court had on July 30 taken suo motu cognizance of the unfortunate sad demise of the judge in a gruesome incident and had sought a status report within a week from Jharkhand’s Chief Secretary and the DGP on probe.

    The Jharkhand High Court had also ordered an SIT probe into the death of Anand, under the leadership of Additional Director General of Police Sanjay Latkar.

    The Jharkhand police had arrested two persons, auto driver Lakhan Verma and his helper Rahul Verma, in connection with the case.

  • Four CISF men get gallantry medal for blocking trucks carrying terrorists to Kashmir valley

    By PTI

    NEW DELHI: Four personnel of the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) have been awarded the police medal for gallantry for intercepting and killing three terrorists who were trying to sneak into the Kashmir valley by hiding inside a truck.

    Constables Rahul Kumar, Muttamala Ravi, Mutum Bikramjit Singh and Anil Lakra displayed courage and engaged the terrorists in a gun battle on January 31 last year at the Ban Toll plaza in Nagrota, Jammu.

    A truck plying from Jammu to Srinagar was stopped at the plaza at around 5:30 am where a joint team of Jammu and Kashmir Police and the CISF were deployed for security checks.

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    As the police asked the driver to open the goods carriage, a terrorist hiding inside the cavity was exposed and he opened fire, the CISF said.

    Constables Rahul Kumar and M Ravi, present on the check-post, immediately latched the truck door and a gun battle ensued.

    Constables M Bikramjit Singh and Anil Lakra also reached the spot as part of a shift rotation protocol and they also engaged the terrorists by quickly taking positions at the plaza.

    While one terrorist was hit and he succumbed about 20 feet from the toll plaza, two others were killed in an encounter with reinforcement troops of the J&K Police, CRPF and Army’s special forces.

    “The terrorists were carrying huge quantity of arms and ammunition which might have been used for targeting security forces and innocent people if they could have managed to surpass the naka,” the CISF said in a statement.

    The “timely and valiant” response by the four CISF personnel was commendable, it said.

    The about 1.62 lakh personnel strong CISF is designated as the national civil aviation security force apart from being tasked to guard critical installations in the nuclear and aerospace domain and some other duties in the internal security domain.

  • CISF personnel seize 15 bullets from passenger at Bhopal airport

    By PTI

    BHOPAL: The Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) seized 15 bullets from a 55-year-old passenger at the Raja Bhoj Airport in Madhya Pradesh’s capital Bhopal on Wednesday, police said.

    During the security check at the airport in the morning, the CISF personnel found 15 bullets in a bag belonging to one Ajay Khandelwal, a passenger on the Indigo Airlines flight to Ahmedabad, said Arun Sharma, in-charge of Gandhi Nagar police station.

    Khandelwal, a resident of Jabalpur, was travelling to Ahmedabad, Gujarat for medical treatment, the official said.

    During interrogation, the passenger informed the police that the bullets were for his licensed pistol, but no weapon was found in his luggage, the official said, adding that further probe is underway in the matter.