Articles about Rishi Kumar Shukla

CBI Director Rishi Kumar Shukla has convened a review meeting of all branches of the agency today, a first after taking over charge earlier this month.

Newly-appointed CBI chief Rishi Kumar Shukla took charge of the probe agency this morning, CBI spokesperson Nitin Wakankar said.

The crisis in Central Bureau of Investigation came to an end on Saturday as Prime Minister Narendra Modi led panel appointed Rishi Kumar Shukla as the new director of the federal agency.

Days after facing flak for marking chests of newly-recruited police constables with their caste, the MP government has triggered another controversy.

The police department and administration of Madhya Pradesh was thrown into commotion after photos of newly-recruited police constable with markings of SC, ST and OBC on their chests surfaced on social media.

Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan attended the wedding of late Bhopal jail employee Ramashankar Yadav's daughter.

The Madhya Pradesh government would announce a cash reward for the villagers who reportedly helped police track down the SIMI men who escaped from Bhopal Central Jail.

A Bhopal Court slammed the state government for a nine-day delay in formally appraising the judiciary about the SIMI-encounter.

Mohammed Khalil, a former inmate of Bhopal Central Jail said the jail was designed to prevent inmates, even in possession of a key, from unlocking the cells from inside.

Due to the rising clamor over how the SIMI encounter has been handled, MP government has announced five different inquiries into the incident so far.

Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has ordered a judicial inquiry into the encounter that killed 8 convicts who escaped from Bhopal's central jail.

Investigators said that evidence collected so far indicates that all 29 SIMI operatives lodged in Bhopal Central Jail may have planned to escape together.

The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has issued a notice to the MP government over the encounter which led to the killing of 8 escapees from Bhopal Central Jail.

Two video clips, purportedly depicting the encounter when police killed the SIMI terrorists who escaped from Bhopal Central Jail have raised questions on the authenticity of the encounter.

Sources have stated that all the 8 inmates who broke out of Bhopal Central Prison have been killed in an encounter with police in Eintkhedi village near Bhopal.