Dehradun encounter victim may have been tortured: Post-mortem report

August 29th, 2009 AHMEDABAD - Ahmedabad police recovered the bodies of two persons who died after allegedly consuming illicit liquor on Friday. Three other persons are undergoing treatment at the hospital.

August 5th, 2009 DEHRADUN - In its initial findings, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has claimed that the encounter in which a 24-year-old MBA student Ranbir Singh was killed by Dehradun police was a fake. The CBI-SIT team reportedly visited the site and recovered over 10 cartridges that were lying underground.

July 27th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Jamia Nagar-based Coordination Committee of Indian Muslims (CCIM) on Monday rejected the National Human Rights Commission's (NHRC) report on the Batla House encounter that gave a clean chit to the Delhi Police. Releasing a 11-point statement on the issue, the CCIM accused the NHRC of committing a grave injustice.

July 8th, 2009 DEHRADUN - Uttarakhand Chief Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal, on Wednesday recommended a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe into the alleged police encounter that claimed the life of MBA student Ranbir Singh. State Chief Secretary I.

July 7th, 2009 DEHRADUN - A case has been registered against six policemen involved in the alleged fake encounter that resulted in the killing of Ranbir Singh, a 24-year-old MBA student. An FIR under Section 302 (murder) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) was registered against them.

July 7th, 2009 DEHRADUN - The Uttarakhand Police on Tuesday registered a murder case against all policemen allegedly involved in the recent encounter death of Ranbir Singh, a 24-year-old management student in the state capital. Singh was killed in the encounter that took place in Dehradun, the provincial capital of Uttrakhand state on Friday.

July 5th, 2009 DEHRADUN - Anger built up in the village of the management graduate who was allegedly killed by police in a staged shootout in the Uttarakhand capital, and farmers Sunday planned to take to the streets to air their protest against the state police. The family of the youth, Ranvir Singh, who had come to Dehradun to take up an assignment with a financial firm, has alleged that he was gunned down by Dehradun police Friday in a staged shootout.

July 5th, 2009 DEHRADUN - Uttarakhand Chief Minister Ramesh Pokhariyal Nishank has ordered a high-level inquiry into the killing of a MBA student in an encounter by the Dehradun Police. "We are considering a high-level inquiry.

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.

July 4th, 2009 DEHRADUN - The death of a youth from Ghaziabad at the hands of police here led to demonstrations on the streets of Dehradun Saturday, with his family alleging he was killed in a staged shootout. Stating that Ranvir Singh was a management graduate who had come to the Uttarakhand capital to reportedly take up an assignment with a financial firm, his family members accused the Dehradun police of gunning him down in a "fake encounter" Friday.

May 21st, 2009 NAGPUR - Police Commissioner Pravin Dixit Thursday ruled out any foul play in the death of a seven-year-old girl whose body was found in the family vehicle of state Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Nitin Gadkari here the previous day. 'We have already received the medical and post-mortem reports of the victim Yogita Thakre which does not mention any sexual assault on the victim,' he told IANS.

April 24th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Akkriti Bhatia, a Class 12 student of Modern School Vasant Vihar in the national capital, died of asphyxiation stemming from an asthma attack, according to the post mortem examination report, police said Friday. 'The post mortem examination report hints Akkriti died of asphyxia.

March 17th, 2009 DEHRADUN - Thousands of Sikh devotees are thronging the Ram Rai Gurudwara in Dehradun for the annual 'Jhanda Mela' or the flag fair. The two-day festival takes place after 'Holi'.

March 16th, 2009 IMPHAL - Two militants of the People's United Liberation Front (PULF) have been shot down in an encounter with the police in the Imphal East district in Manipur. The local police informed on Monday that the commandos, who were patrolling the Keirao area in the district on Sunday, were been attacked by militants.

January 13th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Delhi High Court Wednesday slapped a fine of Rs.100,000 on a Blueline bus owner and ordered contempt proceedings against him for forging the post mortem report of a man killed in a road accident and for wrongly filing a case against the police. A division bench headed by Chief Justice Ajit Prakash Shah and Justice S.