The National Investigation Agency (NIA) is questioning a senior Kerala IPS officer for his alleged association with certain people having terror links whom he had met during his Qatar visit earlier this year. The NIA, which is expected to file its report by the end of this month, has also recorded the statement of the Indian ambassador to Qatar, Deepa Gopalan Wadhwa. Sources said that a team of the probe agency is also likely to visit Qatar for recording statements of officials at the Indian Mission there.
The Centre had ordered through investigations after it received a report from its Qatar mission about the alleged misconduct of Thachankary. The 1987 batch IPS officer had allegedly met some persons in Qatar who are said to have terror links.
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India to get Agni-5 in 2011: DRDO
Rajib Chowdhuri
Kolkata
India will get the Agni-5 missile in 2011. Defence Research & Development Organisation (DRDO) chief and scientific adviser to the defence minister V.K. Saraswat announced on Sunday.
“We are now working on the development of Agni-5 missile, an intermediate range ballistic missile. It is getting ready and will be available for testing next year,” Mr Saraswat said on the sidelines of a programme at the Indian Statistical Institute.
Apart from the Agni-5 missile, introduction of a series of other defence armaments are also on the anvil, he informed, pointing out that the “self-reliance” in the missile technology and its capacity has gone up drastically.
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Wanted criminal kills cop
Age Correspondent
Thiruvananthapuram
A culprit wanted in a marriage fraud case on Sunday shot dead a sub-inspector who tried to arrest him from his house at Chokkad in Malappuram.
The sub-inspector, Mr Vijayakrishnan, 53, and three constables had reached the house of Mujeeb Rahman, after getting information that he was holed up there.
The police was acting on the complaint of a woman that Mujeeb had cheated her after marrying her. The family court had issued a warrant against him but he did not heed the summons issued by the police.
On seeing the cops, Mujeeb whipped out a country pistol and threatened them. But the sub-inspector moved forward and the fraudster shot him twice, on the chest and on the neck. Then he disappeared into the nearby forests with his wife and kids.
Though fellow cops rushed the bleeding sub-inspector to the Nilambur Taluk Hospital, he was declared dead on arrival.