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
Bihar top cop booked for extortion
A senior Bihar police officer has been booked for allegedly demanding Rs. 10 crore from a liquor merchant. Saran deputy inspector general of police Alok Kumar has been accused of extortion. Avinash Kumar reports.
Updated on Jan 20, 2013 11:40 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Avinash Kumar, Patna
Net romance lands Bihar man in jail
An Internet romance with a Filipino woman has landed a Bihari man in jail. Avinash Kumar reports.
Updated on Jan 20, 2013 12:19 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Avinash Kumar, Patna
Mongrel scampers off with Rs. 4 lakh, town in pursuit
Every dog, they say, has its day. And what a day, a street dog enjoyed on Thursday, when it entered a house in Line Bazaar locality at Mirganj in north Bihar’s Gopalganj district and actually ran away with Rs. 4 lakh. Avinash Kumar reports.
Updated on Jan 18, 2013 01:06 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Avinash Kumar, Gopalganj
Tough Bihar women ready for action
The first woman battalion of the Bihar Military Police is undergoing the drills before their scheduled induction into the police force on January 17 after the passing out parade at Gandhi Maidan before chief minister Nitish Kumar, reports Avinash Kumar.
Updated on Jan 12, 2013 02:03 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Avinash Kumar, Patna
Patna DM among 72 IAS officers shuffled
In a major administrative reshuffle, the state government on Friday transferred 72 Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officers--from principal secretary rank to district magistrates level, including Patna DM Sanjay Kumar Singh, reports Avinash Kumar.
Updated on Jan 12, 2013 01:45 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Avinash Kumar, Patna
Over 1,000 rape cases pending in Bihar courts
Over 1,000 cases of rape and sexual assault are pending in different courts of Bihar.
Updated on Dec 26, 2012 03:34 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Avinash Kumar, Patna
Fake drug racket flourishing in state
Poor people seek a major discount on costly drugs. They are easily trapped by retailers who oblige them by giving fake medicines
Updated on Nov 07, 2012 03:56 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Avinash Kumar, Patna
Nitish reviews preparations at Gandhi Maidan
Chief minister Nitish Kumar on Thursday reviewed the preparations for the 'Adhikar Rally' scheduled for November 4 at Patna Gandhi Maidan, but had a shock to find a dais made for MLAs and MPs crumbling right before his eyes. Avinash Kumar reports.
Updated on Nov 02, 2012 01:44 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Avinash Kumar, Patna
Two weeks, 7 killed in City
Bizmen, locals allege miscreants have no fear of the law in the area and they are ready to kill even over small provocation
Updated on Nov 01, 2012 01:20 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Avinash Kumar, Patna
Cheated youth runs job racket, held with six
He was conned by a fake placement agency, but instead of alerting others he took to the same method for making money.
Updated on Oct 31, 2012 03:09 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Avinash Kumar, Patna
Cooker bombs, explosives found in Maoist hideouts in Biihar
After the killing of six Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel in Gaya, security forces on Friday launched joint search operations in Chakarbandha forest area under Dumaria police station of the district and seized nine pressure cooker bombs and six improvised explosive devices (IEDs). Avinash Kumar reports.
Updated on Jan 27, 2013 03:31 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Avinash Kumar, Patna
6 CRPF men killed as Maoists blow up vehicle
Six Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) jawans were killed and eight injured when an IED (improvised explosive device) blast, triggered by CPI (Maoists), blew up their anti-landmine vehicle in the forest areas of Barha locality under Dumaria police station in Gaya district on Thursday. HR Ahmad and Avinash Kumar report.
Updated on Oct 19, 2012 06:23 PM IST
Hindustan Times | HR Ahmad and Avinash Kumar, Gaya/patna
Madhubani mayhem: Police lodge 33 FIRs
The Madhubani police on Wednesday registered as many as 33 FIRs with nine police stations against 150 named persons and thousands of unnamed ones in connection with the unprecedented violence and arson, which claimed two lives and caused extensive damage to the collectorate, SDO and block offices besides several police stations. Avinash Kumar reports.
Updated on Oct 18, 2012 07:40 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Avinash Kumar, Patna
Curfew-like situation as Madhubani burns
Madhubani district magistrate (DM) Adesh Titermare and superintendent of police (SP) Sourav Kumar were removed after two persons were killed and many injured when police opened fire to quell an irate mob of students, which went on the rampage here on Friday.
Updated on Oct 13, 2012 01:28 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Bishnu K Jha/Avinash Kumar, Madhubani/patna
Ex-IMA chief gets himself admitted as probe begins
Dr Ramesh Prasad Singh, senior surgeon and former IMA state president, on Wednesday got himself admitted in a local cardiac support facility claiming a heart condition, even as the police started investigations into the case involving a woman, who has claimed she had been confined by him and sexually abused by him and his associates.
Updated on Oct 11, 2012 01:58 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Avinash Kumar, Patna
LPG bomb ticking over Patna
The LPG cylinder in your kitchen might be a time bomb waiting to explode! Surprised? Well, take a closer look at your cylinder to identify its make. It might not be an original.
Updated on Oct 11, 2012 01:49 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Avinash Kumar, Patna
IMA ex-chief accused of raping college student
More than a day after a B.Com student accused a doctor of rape and illegal confinement for 13 days, the senior surgeon and former president of the Bihar unit of the Indian Medical Association continued to roam free on Wednesday. Avinash Kumar reports.
Updated on Oct 11, 2012 12:29 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Avinash Kumar, Patna
Absconder in Papiya murder case booked
After six years of the sensational murder of noted academician prof Papiya Ghosh and her maid Malti Devi, the Patna police team led by city SP has finally arrested Sanjog Rai, the seventh and last accused in the double murder case, from Ludhiana in Punjab.
Updated on Sep 22, 2012 04:58 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Avinash Kumar, Patna
Harassed Danapur school girls complain of rowdies
Several girls of Baldeva Inter School have sought the help of principal director of defence estates (PDDE) central command, Lucknow, to save them from eve teasing and indecent behaviour by rowdy elements hanging around their institution situated in the heart of the town.
Updated on Sep 20, 2012 04:27 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Avinash Kumar, Danapur
Murder accused former Station House Officer freed
RB Paswan, former station house officer (SHO) of Maner police station, arrested for allegedly beating to death a middle aged man Salman Khan at the police station, was released on bail after police failed to file a charge sheet within the prescribed time limit of 90 days.
Updated on Sep 20, 2012 04:17 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Avinash Kumar, Patna
Cop had sought bribe for arrest of rape accused, speedy probe
Displaying insensitivity to the core, a police officer in Bihar demanded bribe from a traumatised rape victim for no service other than to ensure the arrest of the accused and to take the investigation into the case in the right direction.
Updated on Sep 15, 2012 05:59 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Avinash Kumar, Patna
Bihar cop demands bribe to arrest rape accused, caught
A police officer in Bihar has been arrested for demanding bribe from a traumatised rape victim to ensure the arrest of the accused and to take the investigation in the right direction.
Updated on Sep 14, 2012 04:43 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Avinash Kumar, Patna
Cop pins youth under foot, grips him by hair
An unconscious man in his 20s was dragged by his hair to a cycle rickshaw and held there under a policeman's boot while being taken to a hospital after he was thrashed by a mob of police and locals.
Updated on Sep 14, 2012 12:59 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Avinash Kumar, Patna
One held for SBI official’s murder
Patna police claimed to have solved the murder of cashincharge of the State Bank of India (SBI), Patliputra branch, James Michael Sextus, 57, with the arrest of Manoj Pathak alias Akshay Kumar Singh from a Sasaram guesthouse.
Updated on Sep 13, 2012 12:21 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Avinash Kumar, Patna
DGP’s video recording strategy is not so ‘catchy’
Police's ways are being questioned considering their inaction when Patna was being held ransom on June 2 by the supporters of slain Barmeshwar Singh.
Updated on Sep 12, 2012 12:50 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Avinash Kumar, Patna
Police HQ gears up for massive recruitment
The state government proposes to recruit about 43,000 policemen in the next five years to improve the policepublic ratio and bring it at par with that at the national level.
Updated on Sep 04, 2012 12:33 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Avinash Kumar, Patna
Munger arms dealers have links with N-E rebels
Munger arms peddlers, notorious for manufacturing illegal arms, have now graduated to making big supplies of sophisticated arms, including Glock pistols, to Maoists in the state.
Updated on Sep 04, 2012 12:34 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Avinash Kumar, Patna
Police wireless gasping for breath in state
Police wireless is by far the quickest, safest and most reliable mode of communication. But in Bihar, the department of wireless communication has been left to die a natural death, or so it seems.
Updated on Aug 30, 2012 04:44 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Avinash Kumar, Patna
Arms recovered, three held in state capital
Patna police seized an AK-56 rifle, one Czechoslovakia made pistol and two Indian made pistols in an undercover operation in Kankarbagh locality, late on Monday evening.
Updated on Aug 29, 2012 05:05 PM IST
None | Avinash Kumar, Patna
CCTV footage sought for leads in mall accident
The police have requisitioned the footage of the close circuit cameras installed at the entrance and exit points of the P&M Mall to verify the circumstances in which a Scorpio crushed a visitor and seriously injured his teenage daughter in the parking slot of the commercial complex on Monday.
Updated on Aug 25, 2012 03:41 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Avinash Kumar, Patna