In his reporting career of over 20 years, Sanjeev K Jha has covered bureaucracy, politics, ISI activities in border areas, music and Bollywood. Presently, he covers crime in the national Capital.
Articles by Sanjeev K Jha
Delhi Police brass seeks details of expenses by district units
The officers said that more than ₹350 crore were released to different districts last fiscal, and added that if any discrepancy is found, errant officials will have to face vigilance enquiries
Updated on Apr 20, 2023 11:52 PM IST
Delhi LG gives appointment letters to nearly 1,500 new govt officials
Those who were handed over their letters of appointment on Wednesday include 324 principals, recruited through Union Public Service Commission (UPSC), in various government schools
Updated on Apr 19, 2023 11:58 PM IST
Delhi LG makes integrity pact mandatory for all govt works, procurement
Officials said the state government or agency will appoint independent external monitors (IEMs) who will monitor the execution of the contract
Updated on Apr 12, 2023 12:26 AM IST
Gokalpuri murders: Delhi woman killed elderly in-laws to continue affair
According to police, the in-laws of Moika, the prime accused, had decided to shift to Dwarka which would have meant that she would be unable to stay in contact with her boyfriend
Updated on Apr 12, 2023 12:21 AM IST
Elderly couple murdered at home, daughter-in-law held
The elderly couple lived on the ground floor of the house, while Rattan, Monika and their son lived on the first floor. Verma had retired as the vice-principal of a Delhi government school, and the family had been living in this house for around 38 years
Updated on Apr 11, 2023 12:19 AM IST
Delhi LG slams Kejriwal over comments on PM Modi’s degrees
Delhi LG VK Saxena said that one can accumulate bookish knowledge from degrees, but it is education that paves the way to wisdom.
Updated on Apr 10, 2023 12:46 AM IST
LG slams Delhi government for making false statements in high court
An officer in the LG’s office aware of the matter said the Delhi government misled the high court on “two occasions” — on November 18 last year and February 17.
Updated on Apr 08, 2023 12:14 AM IST
Delhi Police probing Deepak Boxer’s role in Sidhu Moosewala case
Moosewala was killed on May 29 last year in Jawaharke village in Punjab’s Mansa district.
Updated on Apr 07, 2023 02:52 AM IST
Feared gangster Deepak ‘Boxer’ brought to India from Mexico
Boxer switched to crime after a failed career in pugilism and eventually ran the criminal group operated by gangster Jitender Gogi after his 2021 murder.
Updated on Apr 06, 2023 12:31 AM IST
Delhi LG nod to vigilance panels at PDS shops
The move will help weed out corruption and leakages at ration stores, apart from ensuring access for the intended beneficiaries
Updated on Apr 05, 2023 02:33 AM IST
Sanjeev K Jha, New Delhi
Delhi police to scrutinise footage of protest at India mission in UK
A senior Delhi Police officer said that they are reviewing photographs and video footage of the protest
Published on Mar 27, 2023 10:52 PM IST
A pair of white sneakers give snatchers away in Delhi
On scanning the CCTV videos, we realised the snatchers changed their clothes on the roadside after committing the crime, officers said, but not their shoes.
Updated on Mar 25, 2023 01:08 AM IST
‘Not interested in assurances’: India messages UK after FIR over London protest
External affairs ministry spokesperson Arindam Bagchi said New Delhi expects host governments to take action to identify and prosecute all those involved and take all necessary measures to prevent the recurrence of such incidents
Updated on Mar 24, 2023 08:51 PM IST
Delhi Police file FIR over London protest that targeted Indian high commission
Delhi Police have registered a case under multiple penal provisions, including India’s anti-terror law, against Indian nationals allegedly involved in a violent protest outside the Indian mission in London on March 19, when pro-Khalistan activists pulled down the national flag
Updated on Mar 24, 2023 10:20 PM IST
Delhi LG takes up cleaning of Najafgarh Lake after directions from NGT
Officials told the LG that a major portion of the wetland fell in the jurisdiction of Haryana while the wetland in Delhi was largely scattered and accordingly, it was planned to revive the lake as a cluster of small water bodies instead of one big wetland, officials said.
Updated on Mar 23, 2023 04:04 AM IST
Need to substantiate Rahul Gandhi’s claims: Delhi Police
Hours later, Gandhi hit back at the timing of the visit — 45 days after he made the speech — and alleged that the real motive of the police visit was linked to his attacks on the government over the recent Adani controversy
Updated on Mar 19, 2023 11:57 PM IST
5,000 police cameras to be up in Delhi by May 31
The Safe City Project, which aims to create a safe, secure and empowering environment for women in public places, was announced in 2020. The implementation of the project in the Capital will cost ₹600 crore, authorities said
Updated on Mar 16, 2023 04:05 PM IST
South Delhi halt: Chirag Delhi flyover to be shut for 50 days from today
Once repairs on the Nehru Place-IIT Delhi carriageway are complete, the other carriageway will be shut for traffic for the next 25 days, said officials.
Updated on Mar 12, 2023 04:53 AM IST
NH-48 on Delhi-Gurugram e-way to be shut for 3 months; check alternate routes
According to officials from the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI), one of the underpasses will connect the Dwarka expressway with Nelson Mandela Marg, while the other will connect the Dwarka link road with NH-48.
Updated on Mar 11, 2023 08:44 AM IST
Sanjeev K Jha and Abhishek Behl
3-storey building, abandoned by its owner, collapses in Delhi’s Bhajanpura
According to police and fire officials, nobody was injured in the incident. However, a portion of another building in the same lane and power lines were damaged due to the collapse
Published on Mar 09, 2023 11:51 PM IST
Former Delhi minister Manish Sisodia kept in Tihar wing with meditation cell
Sisodia had requested the court that he be kept in the meditation or vipassana cell inside the prison
Published on Mar 07, 2023 12:41 AM IST
All hospitality licences now at a unified portal in Delhi
The entire process of granting and renewing licences is now online and faceless and will have to be completed within 49 days from the receipt of the application, Saxena said
Updated on Mar 01, 2023 12:32 AM IST
Sisodia pre-arrest roadshow, barricades lead to traffic snarls in Delhi
Areas reporting congestion included Lodhi Colony, Dayal Singh College Road, Prithviraj Road, Chirag Dilli, Lajpat Nagar, ITO and Rajghat and on flyovers such as Barapulla and Moolchand
Published on Feb 27, 2023 02:18 AM IST
Hundreds of AAP workers detained on road, at home
Police, however, said most AAP supporters were detained only for a few hours to “maintain the law and order scenario” for defying an order prohibiting gatherings
Updated on Feb 27, 2023 01:48 AM IST
Sahil’s plan was to show Nikki’s murder as an accident, say cops
The disclosure comes amid admissions of those arrested that the murder was premeditated, did not actively involve Gehlot alone, and that some of his family members were part of the conspiracy
Published on Feb 21, 2023 02:04 AM IST
Cop under lens for hatching conspiracy with Sahil Gehlot to murder Nikki Yadav
The latest disclosures mean Sahil Gehlot did not act alone as had been thought previously. An official who asked not to be named said that at least four members met the main accused while he was taking Nikki Yadav’s body to stow away in a closed family restaurant.
Updated on Feb 19, 2023 05:21 AM IST
HT Exclusive | Nikki, Sahil were married; his family knew, helped in crime: Cops
In a a startling revelation in the murder of the 24-year-old woman, Delhi Police said that Sahil Gehlot and Nikki Yadav got married in a secret ceremony at an Arya Samaj Mandir in Noida in October 2020.
Updated on Feb 18, 2023 04:31 AM IST
Centre planning radical changes to IPC, CrPC, Evidence Act: Shah
The minister also praised the Delhi Police, which will provide security for G20-related meetings scheduled in the Capital from March, and said the force will bring laurels to the country.
Updated on Feb 17, 2023 04:23 AM IST
Panel to pick jammer for Tihar’s phone menace
According to a senior Delhi Police officer, at least 10 mobile phones are smuggled every day to inmates in Tihar jail alone
Published on Feb 16, 2023 01:21 PM IST
Alok KN Mishra and Sanjeev K Jha
Delhi to induct 5 forensic vans, 10 more by Feb-end
Delhi will be the first state to have such vans, and the move comes four months after the MHA directed that a forensic investigation is mandatory in all cases where punishment provided is over six years
Updated on Feb 15, 2023 02:49 AM IST