Controversies follow Mallika Sherawat like rains after gathering clouds. To no one's surprise Mallika has fuelled a storm of protests while playing Bhanwari Devi, the slain Rajasthani nurse in KC Bokadia's 'Dirty Politics'. ...
04:20 PM, Feb 17, 2013
It was quite a change from the usual to see Mallika in an orange and golden sari on the sets of 'Dirty Politics' which is based on the story of nurse Bhanwari Devi. ...
10:52 AM, Feb 15, 2013
Actress Mallika Sherawat has chosen promotion of her upcoming movie 'Dirty Politics' over attending a party in US where President Barack Obama was also invited as it is the "most important film in my life". She said she skipped the dinner at the party that was to be attended by Obama. ...
10:58 AM, Jan 29, 2013
Actress Mallika Sherawat and director K C Bokadia claimed they have received "threatening calls" for being part of an upcoming film inspired by Bhanwari Devi, a Rajasthan-based nurse who was allegedly murdered. ...
10:56 AM, Jan 29, 2013
After the medical report of Malkhan Singh Bishnoi, a key accused in the Bhanwari Devi murder case was submitted in a local court on January 21, another accused Mahipal Maderna's report was also submitted in the court on Wednesday. ...
08:54 AM, Jan 24, 2013
Social activist and actress Nandita Das believes that death sentence cannot act as a deterrence against a crime like rape. ...
11:24 AM, Jan 09, 2013
Jodhpur: A court on Thursday framed charges against former Rajasthan minister Mahipal Maderna and MLA Malkhan Singh Bishnoi for kidnapping, murder and conspiracy among other offences in the Bhanwari Devi case, paving the way for trial. Charges were framed against 16 accused by the Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate (SC/ST Cases) court which retained all the sections against 13 of them that were mentioned in the CBI chargesheet including kidnapping and...
12:33 AM, Oct 05, 2012
Jodhpur: Hearing in Bhanwari Devi abduction and murder case was on Saturday adjourned till July 25 as the magistrate had not assumed charge of the ACJM court (SC/ST cases). The postponement of the trail has again put the Jodhpur Central Jail administration in a fix over re-shifting Mahipal Maderna, former minister and one of the main accused of the case, to Jaipur jail. Maderna, who is a prisoner of Jaipur...
10:49 PM, Jul 21, 2012
New Delhi: The elder sister of Bhanwari Devi on Monday moved the Supreme Court seeking the transfer of the murder case out of Rajasthan, claiming that the witnesses were being threatened. Though she did not name anyone, but alleged that the case will not get a fair hearing in Rajasthan. After hearing the petition, the apex court issued notice to the CBI and the Rajasthan government. Earlier, accused Kailash Jakhar,...
01:33 PM, Jul 02, 2012
Jodhpur: Bhanwari Devi abduction and murder case accused Kailash Jakhar, who had escaped from the High Court premises in Jodhpur after armed assailants opened fire to help him flee, was on Monday arrested. On a tip off, police arrested Jakhar from a small hamlet surrounded by sand dunes near Sujangarh in Churu district at about 3 am, Jodhpur Police Commissioner Bhupendra Kumar Dak said. "He is currently under the custody...
11:33 AM, Jul 02, 2012
Jaipur: Rajasthan DGP Harish Meena on Thursday announced a cash reward of Rs 50,000 for information leading to the arrest of Kailash Jakhar, an accused in Bhanwari Devi abduction and murder case. Jakhar had on June 14 escaped from police custody from a Jodhpur court premises where he was taken from jail for trial in some other case. Several Police teams had raided many places in search of him but...
10:01 PM, Jun 21, 2012
New Delhi: Making some headway in the Bhanwari Devi murder case, the CBI has been told by the FBI that the bones recovered from a canal in Rajasthan were of the auxiliary nurse. Official sources said the American agency has conveyed to the CBI that the bones, which included the teeth and parts of skull, that were found from a canal in Jodhpur earlier this year, were that of 36-year-old...
11:46 PM, Jun 20, 2012
Jodhpur: A key accused in the Bhanwari Devi abduction and murder case, Kailash Jakhar, on Thursday managed to escape from police custody in the court premises with the help of some accomplices. The accomplices of Kailash Jakhar, who is accused in several other cases also, opened fire to create panic in the court premises and took him away in a car. Jakhar and Bishana Ram Bishnoi, who were under Judicial...
02:45 PM, Jun 14, 2012
Mumbai: Two producers have engaged themselves in a war of words. Both are doing a film on Bhanwari Devi, a victim of sexual assault and murder from Rajasthan, Nikhil Tonk and Ranjeet Sharma are now in a race to be credited as the original maker. Sadhika Randhawa has already started shooting for the film while Mallika Sherawat is under consideration. Tonk, who has registered the title for his film says,...
03:05 PM, May 24, 2012
Mumbai: A fortnight ago, we reported on a new film being made by producer Nikhil Tonk on Bhanwari Devi, a victim of sexual molestation from Rajasthan who made national headlines. We now hear that another producer Ranjeet Sharma is also making a film on Bhanwari with director Rakesh Saini. While Tonk was looking for an A-list actress to play the pivotal role, Sharma has roped in a relatively unknown actress...
12:54 PM, May 15, 2012
Jodhpur: The trial of former Rajasthan minister Mahipal Maderna, Congress legislator Malkhan Singh Bishnoi and 14 others - accused in the case of nurse Bhanwari Devi's kidnap and murder in September last year - commenced in a court on Monday, a lawyer said. The trial began in the additional chief judicial magistrate's court for the Scheduled Tribes and the Scheduled Castes cases. The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in its...
11:27 AM, May 15, 2012
Jodhpur: The trial of the sensational Bhanwari Devi abduction and murder case had to be deferred on Saturday to May 14 due to the absence of the magistrate hearing the case. Due to the absence of Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate ACJM (SC/ST Cases), who is holding the trial of the murder of nurse Bhanwari Devi, all the 16 accused, including former Rajasthan minister Mahipal Maderna and Congress MLA Malkhan Singh,...
09:21 PM, May 05, 2012
Mumbai: Over a decade since late filmmaker Jagmohan Mundhra's Bawandar, another film on Bhanwari Devi is being made, this time by a team of people who were earlier associated with Ekta Kapoor's TV production house. Sexually assulted by a group of men in 1992, the woman from Rajasthan recently made news again when a CD was released showing the involvement of a local politico. The makers are considering five actresses...
01:45 PM, Apr 30, 2012
New Delhi: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Saturday filed the third chargesheet against four people in connection with the murder of Bhanwari Devi, a Jodhpur nurse and folk singer who was abducted and murdered in September 2011. The agency filed the chargesheet in a CBI court in Jodhpur against the four -- Pukhraj Bishnoi, Dinesh Bishnoi, Reshmaram Bishnoi and Indra Bishnoi. A CBI official informed that Pukhraj, Dinesh...
08:26 PM, Apr 21, 2012
Jodhpur: The Rajasthan High Court on Thursday issued show-cause notices to Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) director and other agency officers on allegations of harassment by a local politician during investigation into the case of missing nurse Bhanwari Devi, a lawyer said. The notices were issued to CBI director, a deputy inspector general of police (DIG), a superintendent of police (SP) and an inspector-rank officer, the lawyer added. Shabhu Singh...
01:05 AM, Apr 20, 2012
