BJP leader shot dead in Uttarakhand police station

October 15th, 2009 KANPUR - A law student here was shot dead early Thursday following a brawl at a wedding, prompting angry students of his college to block the busy Lucknow-Kanpur highway. Abhinav Singh, a second year law student of the Brahmanand Degree College, was killed about half an hour after midnight after an argument with some youths.

October 14th, 2009 PATNA - A businessman and a private security guard were Wednesday shot dead by unidentified assailants in broad daylight in two incidents in this Bihar capital, police said. Sibu Alam, a businessman in his early 30s, was shot dead in a colony under Phulwarisharief police station here.

October 12th, 2009 NEW DELHI - A 48-year-old Delhi Police head constable allegedly shot himself inside the police station where he was posted, an official said Monday. Rohtash shot himself in the head with his service revolver inside the Barakhamba police station around 11.10 p.m.

October 11th, 2009 BHOPAL - A leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) was shot dead outside his house in Madhya Pradesh's Indore city, police said Sunday. Ghanshyam Patidar was shot at from point blank range late Saturday while taking a stroll in Srinagar colony, Indore Additional Superintendent of Police Akash Jindal told IANS.

September 17th, 2009 NEW DELHI - A 23-year-old man was shot dead by motorcycle borne assailants in the capital Thursday, police said. "Vikas Kumar was shot at by motorcycle borne assailants in Kapashera area in west Delhi," a police officer said.

August 21st, 2009 LUCKNOW - A man wanted for over two dozen crimes, including murder and kidnapping, was killed in an by the police in Uttar Pradesh Friday. Anil alias Punjabi, who had escaped from police custody a month ago and carried a reward of Rs.10,000 on his head, was shot dead in Bulandshahr district.

July 30th, 2009 RAMPUR - A love affair has triggered communal tension in this Uttar Pradesh town that also saw violence after an angry mob attacked a police station and damaged public property. A boy and a girl, who were in love for sometime, had gone missing, prompting allegations that the girl has been kidnapped, police said Thursday.

July 8th, 2009 DEHRADUN - Uttarakhand Chief Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Wednesday conceded the demand for a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe into the alleged killing of a Ghaziabad management graduate by police here last week, official sources said. Ranvir Singh, 24, was shot dead after he and his two friends had a scuffle in a crowded locality with policemen who said they had demanded documents of their motor-bike that bore a Haryana registration number.

July 4th, 2009 GHAZIABAD - The family of Ranvir Singh, the Ghaziabad youth who was shot dead by police in Dehradun, Saturday said he was innocent and denied he had any criminal background. "My son was totally innocent.

July 4th, 2009 DEHRADUN - Parents of an MBA student who was allegedly shot dead by police in an encounter, are crying foul. Twenty-two year-old Ranbir Singh's parents said on Saturday that there son had no criminal background and his killing was a clear case of mistaken identity.

June 12th, 2009 GHAZIABAD - A man wanted for over a dozen crimes was shot dead by the police in a firefight when the accused was trying to escape on a stolen motorcycle, officials said Friday. The incident occurred Thursday night in the Indirapuram police station area, police said.

May 28th, 2009 BHOPAL - Santosh Dubey, a Congress leader, was Thursday shot dead in Madhya Pradesh's commercial capital of Indore, police said, adding that a hunt was on to nab the assailants. Dubey, 45, who headed the state Congress cultural cell, was coming out of a gymnasium in Chandan Nagar locality around 9.30 a.m.

May 5th, 2009 RAIPUR - Three unidentified assailants shot dead a senior leader of Chhattisgarh's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Tuesday, police said. The assailants pumped three bullets into Darbar Singh Mandawi, 40, in a remote area of Rajnandgaon district, some 130 km west of capital Raipur.

March 25th, 2009 DEHRADUN - The Uttarakhand Director General of Police Subash Joshi has asked police chiefs of all the districts to intensify the security ahead of the Lok Sabha elections in the state. Joshi communicated with police chiefs through a video conference and directed them to follow model code of conduct.

March 21st, 2009 RANCHI - A local Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader was shot dead by unidentified criminals in Khuti district of Jharkhand Friday, police said. Mahendra Mahto, president of the BJP youth wing in Khuti, 80 km from Ranchi, was shot by three men on two motorcycles when he was going to drop his son to school.