Faizabad: One of the advocates defending four UP serial blasts accused, including Khalid Mujahid, was on Tuesday beaten up by a group of around 50 lawyers allegedly owing allegiance to right-wing groups in court premises in Faizabad. The lawyers beat up Mohammad Saleem and also ransacked the chambers of three other advocates representing the blasts accused this afternoon, SSP, Faizabad, Dharmendra Singh said.
Saleem was admitted to hospital where his condition was stated to be serious, he said. High alert has been sounded and prohibitory orders have been issued in the district, he said.
Heavy deployment of forces has been done and anti-riot police pickets have been posted in sensitive localities of the district, he said. Mujahid, an accused in serial blasts that had rocked Lucknow and Faizabad courts in November 2007, died on Saturday after he fell sick and fainted near Barabanki border while being escorted to Lucknow jail after a court hearing.
42 persons, including several police officials, have been booked for criminal conspiracy in connection with the death. Giving details of today's incident, Singh said around 50 lawyers reached the chambers of advocates Jamal Ahmad, Mohammad Nadeem, Sahkilur Rahman and Mohammad Saleem raising communal slogans....
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11:53 PM, May 21, 2013
New Delhi: Delhi Police on Tuesday refuted the allegations of the four accused in the December 16 gangrape case in a special court that the victim was not assaulted by iron rods and she died before being taken to Singapore. "It is wrong to suggest that I had not taken the opinion of the doctors during the lifetime of the victim, despite various opportunities, as the said weapons were allegedly...
10:14 PM, May 21, 2013
New Delhi: The Tihar jail authorities on Thursday told a special court here that one of the accused in the December 16 gangrape case is being given proper medical care in the hospital where he is admitted and the doctors there are not on strike. "It has been confirmed from the guard, who is escorting guarding the accused Vinay Sharma at LNJP Hospital that the doctors of the hospital are...
09:52 PM, May 16, 2013
New Delhi: An accused in December 16 gangrape case has been vomiting blood as his "food was being poisoned" over several weeks in Tihar Jail, his lawyer told a fast-track court on Wednesday, adding that he was critically ill. Additional Sessions Judge directed Tihar Jail authorities to ensure that proper medical care is given to him. The accused, Vinay Sharma, was admitted to Deen Dayal Upadhyay Hospital, where he was...
12:46 AM, May 16, 2013
Mumbai: The sessions court in Mumbai on Friday directed the Gujarat police to produce a recently arrested accused of 2002 Best Bakery case. Vadodara police's Crime Branch has moved an application before the sessions judge UB Hejib saying that a warrant was pending against Jayanti Gohil, an accused, who did not face trial in the case after a re-trial was ordered. "Gohil had faced the trial in Gujarat but he...
03:24 AM, May 11, 2013
Bilaspur: A man has been sentenced to death by a local court in Bilaspur for abducting and killing three minor siblings in February 2011 in Ratnapur town of the district. First Additional District and Sessions Judge Neeta Yadav on Saturday sentenced - Manoj Suryawanshi - to death for abducting and killing the children from his neighbourhood. According to police, Suryawanshi had kidnapped his neighbour Shivlal Dhivar's children - Vijay (8),...
02:31 PM, May 05, 2013
Islamabad: A special Pakistani anti-terrorism court in Islamabad on Saturday extended the judicial remand of former military ruler Pervez Musharraf by 14 days, in connection with his decision to place judges under house arrest during the 2007 emergency. "Pervez Musharraf's remand is extended for judicial lock-up for 14 days, he should be presented before the court on May 18," Judge Kausar Abbas Zaidi ordered. Musharraf's lawyers filed a bail application...
08:46 PM, May 04, 2013
Lakhisarai (Bihar): "I have committed a big mistake." This was how Pradeep Kumar, the second person arrested in connection with the rape of a five-year-old girl, responded when asked how he felt about the crime. Pradeep, a 19-year-old "illiterate" who works as a mason in Delhi, was arrested from his maternal uncle's house in Bihar in the wee hours on Monday. According to his friend Manoj, who was arrested two...
10:46 PM, Apr 22, 2013
New Delhi: Mukesh, an accused in the December 16, 2012 gangrape, on Saturday changed his counsel ML Sharma who failed to appear in a fast track court in New Delhi for the fourth successive hearing. Advocate Sharma has been replaced by advocate Rajeev Jain, appointed as an amicus curiae to assist the court April 18, after the accused moved an application. Mukesh asked Additional Sessions Judge Yogesh Khanna he wanted...
06:48 PM, Apr 20, 2013
New Delhi: A lawyer representing one of the accused in the December 16 gangrape case was on Tuesday warned for his repeated failure to appear in the proceedings by a special court which said had it not been this case an "adverse order" would have been passed against him. "I am not passing an adverse order. Had it been other case then I would have done it," Additional Sessions Judge...
07:18 PM, Apr 16, 2013
New Delhi: A fast-track court on Monday sought Delhi Police's reply on the plea of one of the accused in the December 16 gangrape case for 15 days interim bail on the ground he has see his ailing mother in a hospital. Additional Sessions Judge Yogesh Khanna asked the police to file its reply by Tuesday on accused Akshay Singh's plea to visit his mother, who he says is in...
07:34 PM, Apr 15, 2013
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05:26 PM, Apr 13, 2013
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08:05 AM, Apr 02, 2013
New Delhi: The bail plea of one of the accused in the Delhi gangrape case Vinay Sharma is expected to be heard on Monday. The accused has sought his bail to prepare for entrance exams for the Indian Air Force. Special Public Prosecutor Dayan Krishnan, opposing the bail plea, had said Sharma may jump the bail and tamper with the evidence. In its reply filed before Additional Sessions Judge Yogesh...
09:20 AM, Apr 01, 2013
Kerala: A Kerala district court on Wednesday sent a notice to Deputy Chairman of Rajya Sabha PJ Kurien and five others in connection with the Suryanelli gangrape case, after the survivor filed a fresh petition demanding Kurien be made an accused. A similar attempt by the survivor early in 2013 was shot down by another district court. The district court will now review the case on the May 29. Kurien...
02:15 PM, Mar 27, 2013
Two of the main accused in the December 16 gangrape, Mukesh Singh and Vinay Sharma have sought bail from a fast-track court. The two of the five adult accused who had allegedly gangraped the girl, have moved their bail applications in the court of Additional Sessions Judge Yogesh Khanna who is conducting the proceedings behind closed doors, their counsel told the media persons outside the court room. ...
07:52 AM, Mar 22, 2013
Two of the accused involved in the December 16 gangrape of a 23-year-old girl in a moving bus in New Delhi sought bail from a fast-track court. Accused Mukesh and Vinay Sharma, two of the five adult accused who had allegedly gangraped the girl, have moved their bail applications in the court of Additional Sessions Judge Yogesh Khanna who is conducting the proceedings behind closed doors, their counsel told the...
07:39 PM, Mar 21, 2013
The partner of the 39-year-old Swiss woman tourist, gangraped in Datia district last week, on Tuesday recognised his belongings looted by the six accused arrested in connection with the crime. "The victim's partner arrived alone in Datia this evening and was asked to recognise only his belongings and not the accused in the presence of Basai Tehsildar Deepak Kumar Shukla", Deputy Inspector General of Police (Chambal Range), DK Arya said....
11:09 PM, Mar 19, 2013
Two police constables were suspended after a person held in a pick-pocketing case allegedly committed suicide at a police lock-up at Chembur. ...
12:59 PM, Mar 18, 2013
Chief Justice of India Altamas Kabir on Saturday said public sentiments akin to "baying for blood" of the juvenile accused in the Delhi gangrape-cum-murder case before the conclusion of trial is unfortunate. Referring to December 16 gangrape-cum-murder case as a "ghastly" incident, Justice Kabir also said the kneejerk reaction of general public against the juvenile was wrong. ...
10:04 PM, Mar 16, 2013
