New York: The New York Police Department targeted Muslim mosques with tactics normally reserved for criminal organisations, according to newly obtained police documents that showed police collecting the license plates of worshippers, monitoring them on surveillance cameras and cataloging sermons through a network of informants. The documents, obtained by The Associated Press, have come to light as the NYPD fends off criticism of its monitoring of Muslim student groups and...
10:51 PM, Feb 24, 2012
New Delhi: The Supreme Court is expected to hear a petition challenging the death penalty given to militant Devender Pal Singh Bhullar. His mercy plea was rejected last year after he was given death penalty in a 1993 car bombing case. The Khalistani militant had been sentenced to death for triggering the 1993 Delhi car bomb attack that killed 12 people. He had filed a mercy petition before President Pratibha...
07:41 AM, Feb 22, 2012
New Delhi: The Supreme Court stayed the TADA proceedings in two cases against alleged gangster Abu Salem in the 1993 Mumbai blasts case in view of Portugal court's order terminating his extradition to India. The court has issued notices to the Central government and the Ministry of External Affairs and wants a response in three weeks. Abu Salem in his application has said that trial, which can lead to death...
12:53 PM, Feb 17, 2012
New Delhi: The CBI on Tuesday said that they don't accept Portugal Supreme Court's verdict which recently confirmed the decision to terminate the extradition of underworld don Abu Salem to face trial in various cases in India. The CBI on Tuesday filed its reply in the special TADA court in Mumbai. This reply has been filed after Salem moved the court stating since his extradition had been revoked, no trial...
12:45 PM, Jan 31, 2012
New Delhi: Upholding a Lisbon High Court order, the Portuguese Supreme Court has ruled against the extradition of the notorious gangster Abu Salem. The SC ruled that India has violated the extradition conditions. The Portuguese apex court was hearing a petition filed by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) challenging Lisbon High Court order terminating Salem's extradition. The gangster and an accused in the 1993 Mumbai blasts was brought to...
08:37 PM, Jan 17, 2012
New Delhi: In a setback for India, gangster and 1993 Mumbai serial blasts accused Abu Salem may have to go back to Portugal. The Portugal Supreme Court has rejected India's appeal against a Lisbon lower court order cancelling his extradition to India. Salem has moved TADA court seeking closure of the trial against him in 1993 Mumbai blasts, says continuing trial will be illegal. TADA court in Mumbai will hear...
01:44 PM, Jan 17, 2012
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday granted interim bail till August 7 to former Union Minister Sukh Ram and two others in the 1993 telecom scam case. The court has also asked the CBI if they were challenging Sukh Ram's acquittal under Section 120 B of the IPC for charges of conspiracy. The bench had on January 9 granted interim bail to Sukh Ram, who had surrendered before a...
11:18 AM, Jan 16, 2012
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday granted interim bail till January 16 to former Union minister Sukh Ram, former bureaucrat Runu Ghosh and Hyderabad-based businessman P Rama Rao, convicted in the 1993 telecom scam. Sukh Ram, who surrendered in court on Saturday, was sent to jail for a three-year term in the case. All the three were convicted by the Supreme Court on January 5. Sukh Ram initially evaded...
01:14 PM, Jan 09, 2012
New Delhi: The Supreme Court will on Monday hear the bail plea of former Union minister Sukh Ram, who surrendered and was sent to jail for a three-year term in the 1993 telecom scam case. A bench headed by Justice P Sathasivam, would also hear the bail plea of veteran politician's co-accused former bureaucrat Runu Ghosh and Hyderabad-based businessman P Rama Rao. All the three were convicted by the Supreme...
09:01 AM, Jan 09, 2012
New Delhi: The bail pleas of former Union minister Sukh Ram, who surrendered and was sent to jail to undergo a three-year term in the 1993 telecom scam, will be taken up on Monday in the Supreme Court. A bench headed by Justice P Sathasivam, would also hear the bail plea of veteran politician's co-accused former bureaucrat Runu Ghosh and Hyderabad-based businessman P Rama Rao. The bench had earlier on...
11:51 AM, Jan 08, 2012
New Delhi: Former minister Sukh Ram surrendered in court on Saturday in the 1993 telecom scam. He has been arrested and sent to judicial custody. Sukh Ram came to court in an ambulance. Earlier his counsel had argued that he could not appear in the court because he was in coma. "He has gone into coma, he cannot move from hospital," his counsel told Special CBI Judge Dharmesh Sharma on...
12:40 PM, Jan 07, 2012
New Delhi: A Delhi court has asked former minister Sukh Ram to surrender before the trial court by Saturday evening over the 1993 telecom scam. Earlier his counsel had argued that he could not appear in the court because he was in coma. "He has gone into coma, he cannot move from hospital," his counsel told Special CBI Judge Dharmesh Sharma on Thursday. The Supreme Court had asked the former...
11:48 AM, Jan 07, 2012
Mumbai: Released in 2007, Ehtesham Shaikh escaped from a Thane session court after an arrest order in an attempt to murder case was passed. Ten years of imprisonment has not been able to reverse the criminal tendencies of 1993 bomb blasts convict Mohmmad Ehtesham Shaikh. After being released in 2007 after finishing his sentence as an undertrial, Shaikh has been booked in at least four cases in Mumbai and Thane,...
01:35 PM, Dec 16, 2011
London: British prosecutors on Tuesday dropped charges against underworld don Dawood Ibrahim's close aide Iqbal Mirchi in connection with a case in which he was accused of threatening to kill a man, citing lack of evidence. Britain's Crown Prosecution Service said on Tuesday that it has decided to discontinue the charges against Muhammed Iqbal Memon, also known as Iqbal Mirchi, who is wanted in India in connection with the 1993...
10:36 PM, Nov 15, 2011
New Delhi: The trial of underworld don Dawood Ibrahim's aide Iqbal Mirchi is set to begin in a British court on Thursday. Mirchi has been charged with threatening to kill 41-year-old Nadeem Kader. Last month, a lower court, granted him conditional bail. India's efforts to extradite him have been in vain. The government attempted Mirchi's extradition in 1995 but was unsuccessful. CBI sources told CNN-IBN, "We have to see if...
08:26 AM, Nov 10, 2011
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