Avinash, a senior correspondent, reports on crime, railways, defence and social sector, with specialisation in police, home department and other investigation agencies.
Articles by Avinash Kumar
Patna: 5 killed as train hits Bolero in Nawada
At least four passengers and the driver of a Bolero jeep were killed, while seven others sustained serious injuries when the Howrah-Gaya Express train rammed into it at an unmanned railway crossing at Safiganj locality, about 150 km south-east of Patna on Tuesday morning.
Updated on Dec 16, 2014 03:35 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Avinash Kumar, Patna
Ghorasahan thieves go national, make off with luxury watches, cellphones
Ghorasahan in East Champaran (Motihari) district of Bihar is fast becoming a village of thieves.
Updated on Oct 07, 2014 12:15 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Avinash Kumar, Patna
Patna stampede: Top admin officials transferred
Under pressure to fix responsibility for the stampede at Gandhi maidan in Patna on Friday that left 33 dead and scores injured, chief minister Jitan Ram Manjhi has axed the entire team of officials comprising the Patna administration.
Updated on Oct 06, 2014 12:45 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Avinash Kumar, Patna
Bihar teen arrested in case preceding his birth
In a case of mistaken identity, an 18-year-old man in north Bihar was arrested by the police in connection with an incident of arson that took place a year before he was born. The man, identified by a single name, Rajkumar, was arrested earlier this week at Makhnupur village in north Bihar.
Updated on Sep 18, 2014 07:19 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Avinash Kumar, Patna
NSG commando held for alleged molestation attempt
A commando attached with the National Security Guards (NSG) has been arrested for allegedly trying to molest a woman co-passenger while travelling in the Kolkata-New Delhi Rajdhani Express.
Updated on Aug 25, 2014 10:07 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Avinash Kumar, Patna
Bihar braces for Kosi fury after Nepal landslide, flood alert in 8 districts; evacuation on
The Bihar government Saturday sounded a flood alert in eight districts and launched a massive evacuation in anticipation of the Kosi breaching its banks, hours after a landslide in Nepal blocked the course of the river.
Updated on Aug 03, 2014 09:07 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Avinash Kumar, Aloke Chatterjee, Utpal Parashar and Aloke Tikku, Patna/kathmandu/new Delhi
Driver alerted, Maoists fail to blow up Rajdhani
Passengers of the Bhubaneswar-New Delhi Rajdhani, which was 10 minutes behind, had an escape when the driver of the derailed pilot engine spread information that saved immense casualties.
Updated on Jul 24, 2014 01:01 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Anil Kumar Ojha & Avinash Kumar, Gaya
Bihar: SSB informer sells mobile, killed
A rickshawpuller-turned informer of the Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB), which guards the Indo-Nepal border at Kanhauli, was beaten to death by a jawan after it was found that the informer had sold off the mobile phone given to him by the force for food.
Updated on Jul 23, 2014 12:05 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Avinash Kumar, Patna
Drunk jawans held for harassing woman on train
Khagaria government railway police (GRP) on Tuesday arrested three army personnel who sexually harassed a girl on the New Delhi-Sikkim Mahananada express train on Monday night.
Updated on Jul 23, 2014 01:02 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Avinash Kumar, Patna
3 drunk army jawans held for molesting on train
Three drunk army personnel were arrested by Government Railway Police (GRP) from the New Delhi-Sikkim Mahananda Express on Monday night for allegedly sexually assaulting a co-passenger, a 25-year-old student from Darjeeling.
Updated on Jul 22, 2014 06:02 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Avinash Kumar, Patna
Woman 'molested', cops didn't record statement
A 22-year-old woman was allegedly sexually abused in a moving car in Patna on Friday, but police did not record her statement and let her go after a short interrogation.
Updated on Jun 27, 2014 07:09 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Avinash Kumar, Patna
4 killed as Rajdhani derails in Bihar, CM rules out sabotage angle
At least 4 people were killed and more than a dozen were injured after the New Delhi-Dibrugarh Rajdhani Express derailed in Bihar's Saran district on Wednesday. Read: Too early to blame Maoists: Rajnath
Updated on Jun 25, 2014 07:52 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Rai Atul Krishna and Avinash Kumar, Chhapra (bihar)
Bihar SHO, 7 others get death for 2002 fake encounter
A Bihar police officer was sentenced to death on Tuesday for killing three teenaged students in a fake encounter 12 years ago in Patna’s posh Ashiana Nagar locality.
Updated on Jun 25, 2014 12:50 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Avinash Kumar, Patna
15 Bihar workers in Iraq seek help from Gopalganj administration
Fifteen Indians working for a private company in the strife-torn Iraqi town of Basra have sent an SOS to the district magistrate (DM) of Gopalganj to ensure their safe return to India. | Tension prevails in Lucknow amid stone pelting incidents
Updated on Jun 20, 2014 06:25 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Avinash Kumar, Patna
Reds threaten voters in Chirag’s Jamui
The shadow of Maoists got a bit longer on Sunday, when they held a ‘jan adalat’ (people’s court) to enforce the poll boycott call in their areas of influence.
Updated on Apr 08, 2014 12:13 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Avinash Kumar, Patna
Two CRPF men killed in Aurangabad Maoist blast
Two jawans of the CRPF were killed Monday afternoon, when they were trying to diffuse a landmine planted by the Maoists in Aurangabad Lok Sabha constituency to disturb the first phase of elections on April 10.
Updated on Apr 07, 2014 06:34 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Avinash Kumar, Patna
27 IEDs recovered ahead of Nitish's visit to Gaya
At least 27 IEDs, suspected to have been planted by Maoists to target polling staff and security forces during the Lok Sabha polls, were recovered in Imamganj police station of Gaya area on Friday evening. The forces also recovered more than 50 pipes and can-bombs during the search operations.
Updated on Apr 04, 2014 09:59 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Avinash Kumar, Gaya
Cylinder bombs planted at railway tracks recovered
Maoists bid to target Rajdhani Express and other important long distance trains was foiled early on Thursday after Bihar police detected cylinder bombs planted near the railway tracks at Deo halt between Gaya and Mughalsarai rail section.
Updated on Mar 28, 2014 01:59 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Avinash Kumar, Patna
Bihar: Huge haul of explosives in Munger
In the run up to election, security forces on Monday recovered a large quantity of explosives and wireless sets from a place in the Maoist-affected Munger district.
Updated on Mar 24, 2014 05:40 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Avinash Kumar/Avijit Biswas/HTC, Patna/munger
Maoists abduct 6, set petrol pump on fire in Bihar
Officials said armed Maoists abducted six persons engaged in lifting sand from Kiul river bed, between Jamui and Chanan in south eastern Bihar and set afire two sand drilling machines, late on Thursday.
Updated on Mar 15, 2014 01:13 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Avinash Kumar, Avijit Biswas and Ajay Kumar, Patna/bhagalpur/muzaffarpur
After Patna bomb blasts, Modi's Bihar rally on March 3 gives jitters to security agencies
Slated for March 3, the rally will be Modi's first public engagement in Bihar since serial bomb blasts rocked Patna's Gandhi Maidan minutes before he addressed his debut election rally in the state on October 27 last year. Six people died in the blasts.
Updated on Feb 16, 2014 07:01 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Avinash Kumar, Patna
Family of man who gave life for Anna stir struggles to survive in Bihar
Fortune has favoured Arvind Kejriwal and some others who were part of the Anna Hazare-led anti corruption movement, but the family of a Bihar man who sacrificed his life to the cause is struggling to survive.
Updated on Jan 12, 2014 05:02 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Avinash Kumar, Paliganj (patna)
Bihar minor gang raped in Rajasthan fights for survival
While there has been a furore over the gangrape and murder of a Bihari girl in Kolkata, the plight of another 12-year-old gangrape victim from the state in Rajasthan has been forgotten.
Updated on Jan 09, 2014 01:58 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Avinash Kumar, Patna
Gaya deputy mayor, 7 others arrested for gang-rape
The police arrested seven persons including the deputy mayor of Gaya and two ward councillors on charges of illegal confinement and gang-rape of two minor girls at a premier hotel on Frazer Road in the state capital on Tuesday.
Updated on Jan 07, 2014 09:15 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Avinash Kumar, Patna
Lawyer disowns son, moves court to sue him for Rs 1 cr over inter-caste marriage
Sidhnath Sharma had asserted that his son, who works for the central government as a senior tax assistant in Gujarat’s Palampur town, could no longer use his name and would have to pay Rs. 10,000 as copyright fees every time he used it.
Updated on Jan 08, 2014 01:49 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Avinash Kumar, Danapur
Nitish orders probe after Rs. 25 crore ransom claim
Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar has ordered an inquiry into a case involving the kidnapping of a Surat-based businessman who was released in Patna after his father "paid" Rs. 25-crore as ransom (probably the biggest ever to date) allegedly at the residence of a Bihar politician.
Updated on Dec 19, 2013 09:51 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Avinash Kumar, Patna
Maoists kill 7 cops in Bihar's Aurangabad district
Maoists massacred seven police officials in a landmine explosion in Bihar on Tuesday even as the state cabinet approved a new surrender-cum-rehabilitation policy for left-wing extremists.
Updated on Dec 04, 2013 02:54 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Prasun K Mishra and Avinash Kumar, Patna/aurangabad
Rocked by train attack, forces launch massive ops in Bihar
Security forces kick-started a massive combing operation in Bihar's Munger district on Sunday - a day after Maoists killed three Government Railway Police (GRP) jawans in an attack on Sahibganj-Danapur Intercity Express.
Updated on Dec 01, 2013 10:18 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Avinash Kumar, Patna
Maoists stop train in Bihar, kill 3 rly troops, abduct 1
In another major attack, Maoists attacked the Sahebganj- Danapur Inter city express (13235) between Bhagalpur and Jamalpur on Saturday evening, killing three government railway policemen and injuring three others seriously, including a woman.
Updated on Dec 01, 2013 12:35 AM IST
Hindustantimes.com | Avinash Kumar and Avijit Biswas, New Delhi
Bihar: Maoists gun down 3 in Amkola village in Gaya
Suspected Maoists shot dead three people and injured two others at a village in Bihar's Gaya district on Monday. The killings occurred between midnight and 1am at Amkola village, about 60km from the district headquarters.
Updated on Nov 11, 2013 07:12 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Avinash Kumar, Gaya