Mumbai: Alistair Pereira, whose bail was cancelled in the 2006 hit-and-run case in Mumbai surrendered before a court in Sewri on Monday. On January 12, the Supreme Court upheld the conviction and three years jail term awarded to the Mumbai-based businessman for mowing down seven persons by his speeding car in an inebriated condition, but said the punishment for the "despicable aggravated offence" was "too meagre". The apex court, which...
01:33 PM, Jan 16, 2012
Mumbai: Two days after the Supreme Court verdict in the 2006 hit-and-run case, Alistair Pereira, whose bail was cancelled, is yet to surrender before the authorities in Mumbai. On January 12, the Supreme Court upheld the conviction and three years jail term awarded to the Mumbai-based businessman for mowing down seven persons by his speeding car in an inebriated condition, but said the punishment for the "despicable aggravated offence" was...
12:59 PM, Jan 14, 2012
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Thursday upheld conviction of Alistair Anthony Pereira in the hit-and-run case that left seven people dead six years ago in Mumbai. The apex court has also cancelled Pereira's bail and directed him to undergo three-year jail term awarded by the Bombay High Court. A bench headed by RM Lodha cancelled his bail and directed him to undergo his remaining jail term. The court passed...
11:25 AM, Jan 12, 2012
Mumbai: Five years after they were accused in the 2006 Malegaon blasts case, seven of the nine accused finally got bail and walked out of jail in Mumbai on Wednesday amidst emotional scenes. The bail order came after the NIA told the court that it does not have enough evidence against the accused. The accused claim they have been wrongly targeted. Families of the seven accused in the 2006 Malegaon...
05:34 PM, Nov 16, 2011
Mumbai: A police constable attached to Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) had sent Rs 3,000 by money order in 2008 to an approver-turned-hostile accused, currently lodged in a city jail for his alleged role in the 2006 Malegaon bomb blasts, an RTI query has revealed. In response to an RTI query filed by Gulzaar Azmi, general secretary (legal cell) of a socio-cultural organisation, , Jamiat Ulama-E-Maharashtra, it was found that Sadashiv...
11:46 AM, Nov 15, 2011
New Delhi: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Saturday did not oppose bail petitions of nine accused who were arrested in the 2006 Malegaon blast case. Nine accused had applied for the bail in October. NIA has told Mumbai court that it would not oppose the bail applications of the accused. The bail applications were filed in the Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA) court, which is hearing the...
01:12 PM, Nov 05, 2011
Mumbai: Nine persons arrested for the bomb blasts in Maharashtra's Malegaon town in 2006 moved a special court seeking bail on Saturday. In the bail application filed before the Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA) Court, the accused said the case is now being handled by National Investigation Agency (NIA), which has concluded brain mapping and polygraph tests on them, but did not find anything incriminating. "There is a...
02:07 PM, Oct 01, 2011
Mumbai: The National Investigating Agency (NIA) is unlikely to oppose the bail pleas of the nine accused arrested by the Maharashtra ATS in the 2006 Malegaon bomb blast case when they come up for hearing this week. Sources privy to the investigations into the case said on Tuesday the NIA may not oppose the bail pleas of the nine accused hinting they may not have played any role. The bail...
07:03 PM, Sep 13, 2011
Lucknow: Former Union Minister Mani Shankar Aiyar on Monday rubbished WikiLeaks expose that he was replaced by Murli Deora as Petroleum Minister in 2006 under US pressure. He, however noted that the US was happy that he was removed. It is rubbish that petroleum portfolio was taken from me as the US was unhappy," Aiyar told reporters here in a reply to a question on WikiLeaks reports. He said that...
12:58 PM, Mar 28, 2011
Mumbai: The CBI, in its reply before a MCOCA court on Friday, opposed the bail plea of the nine accused in the 2006 Malegaon blast case. In its reply to Special Judge YD Shinde, the agency said, "In view of Swami Aseemanand's statement, CBI is conducting further investigation after obtaining formal permission of this honourable court. That the accused have not put forward any valid ground for consideration of their...
12:13 PM, Jan 28, 2011
Malegaon: After Swami Aseemanand's confession, there was clamour in Malegaon for the release of the nine local youth arrested in the 2006 Malegaon blast case. The family members of the youth say even if they are released, the scars of being targetted as the accused for years can never be erased. Noorul Huda is one of the accused in Malegaon blast case and was arrested from Malegaon in the 2006....
02:21 PM, Jan 13, 2011
London: Britain has scrapped a controversial identity card scheme whose introduction by the previous Labour government as part of anti-terrorism plans had outraged civil rights activists. The scrapping of the scheme has been approved after the the David Cameron government's first Home Office bill, the Identity Documents Bill, received royal assent. The Identity Cards Act 2006 provided for a personal identification document and European Union travel document, linked to a...
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