New Delhi: The judicial custody of seven accused, including three doctors, arrested for their alleged role in the recent leak of post graduate medical entrance exam papers of All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), was on Wednesday extended till February 14 by a Delhi court. All the accused were produced before Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (ACMM) Amit Bansal after expiry of their judicial custody remand. The Crime Branch of...
06:51 PM, Jan 31, 2012
Jodhpur: Ahead of filing its final chargesheet in the Bhanwari Devi murder case, the CBI on Monday interrogated Kusum Bishnoi, considered to be close to accused Congress MLA Malkhan Singh Bishnoi. Kusum, pradhan of Bilara constituency to which Bhanwari belonged and a relative of Malkhan, was taken to the agency's office here late this evening. CBI spokesperson Dharini Mishra said there was no fresh arrest in the case and efforts...
11:58 PM, Jan 30, 2012
New Delhi: A Mumbai court on Monday extended the judicial custody of the accused in journalist Jyotirmoy Deys murder case till February 14. Journalist Jigna Vora was among those who appeared in the court on Monday. J Dey, a senior crime journalist with MiD Day, was shot dead on June 11 last year near his residence in Powai, central Mumbai by motorcycle-borne assailants. Vora stands accused of providing information about...
07:15 PM, Jan 30, 2012
Jodhpur: The judicial custody of Congress MLA Malkhan Singh Bishnoi and four others, arrested in the Bhanwari Devi case, ends on Monday. The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) is expected to file its final report in the case later this week. The CBI has jointly questioned six of the accused, including Bhanwari Devi's husband Amarchand, in Jodhpur Central Jail, to cross-check their statements on the conspiracy of abduction and elimination...
11:38 AM, Jan 30, 2012
Pune: Santosh Maruti Mane, the state transport driver who went on a rampage mowing down eight persons and injuring 27 others here, was on Thursday remanded in police custody till February 3 by a local court with lawyers refusing to appear for him. There was no sign of remorse on 30-year-old Mane, who was produced in the court of Judicial Magistrate VB Borha, has been charged under sections 302 (murder),...
09:32 PM, Jan 26, 2012
New Delhi and Oslo seem to have finally agreed on a solution - that of handing over the children to their grandparents in India. ...
09:44 PM, Jan 24, 2012
New Delhi: Union Home Secretary RK Singh on Tuesday admitted that there were coordination problems between Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) and Delhi Police, saying that one of the two arrested in the 13/7 Mumbai blasts case is a police informer. Congratulating Maharashtra ATS for cracking the case, Singh said that Naqee Ahmed Sheikh, who is one of the arrested in the blast case, was being used by the IB and...
03:25 PM, Jan 24, 2012
After Minister of External Affairs SM Krishna talked to the Norwegian authorities on the NRI kids custody issue, their grandfather Monotosh Chakrobarty sees a ray of hope. ...
09:47 PM, Jan 23, 2012
Mumbai: A family member of Naqi Ahmed, who had allegedly helped three terror suspects rent an apartment in Mumbai and was later arrested in a forgery case, said he was being tortured in police custody. The charge, however, was rubbished by the Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) which effected the arrest. "My nephew (Naqi Ahmed) is innocent. He did not know anyone called Bhatkal (Indian Mujahideen suspected member Yasin Bhatkal). We...
08:26 PM, Jan 20, 2012
Hyderabad: A city court on Wednesday sent Bharath Mohanlal Rateswar alias Bharath Bhai, an accused in the 2007 Mecca Masjid blast case, to judicial custody till Feb 3. The National Investigation Agency (NIA) presented Rateswar before a magistrate at a Nampally criminal court. He was later shifted to Chanchalguda Central Jail. The NIA has brought Rateswar on transit warrant from Rajasthan, where he was lodged in jail in the Ajmer...
11:58 AM, Jan 19, 2012
Mumbai: The judicial custody of all the eleven accused in the Jyotirmoy Dey murder case is set to end on Monday. A special MCOCA court will decide on extending their custody. J Dey, a crime and ivestigation journalist with MiD Day, was shot dead outside his house at Powai in Mumbai on June 11, 2011. Apparently, underworld don Chhota Rajan had ordered his killing. The eleven accused include woman journalist...
08:41 AM, Jan 16, 2012
New Delhi: A court on Thursday extended till Jan 19 the judicial custody of six accused in the 2010 Jama Masjid firing and blast in which two foreigners were injured. Police told the court that they were awaiting the forensic report of bullet shells found at the site of September 2010 incident. Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Vinod Yadav asked police about the forensic report of the articles recovered from the place...
01:09 AM, Jan 06, 2012
New Delhi: The judicial custody of the 6 directors of Kolkata's AMRI hospital will end on Thursday. The directors were arrested after a massive fire in the hospital's basement led to the death of 93 people, mostly patients. The Kolkata police on Tuesday announced compensation for families of the 29 of those dead. The rest would be given compensation after due verification of documents, it said. Meanwhile, industry body FICCI...
08:10 AM, Jan 05, 2012
Jodhpur: A CBI court on Saturday extended the judicial custody of Mahipal Maderna and Parasram, arrested for their alleged involvement in Bhanwari Devi abduction case, till January 6. They were produced before the court of Jagdish Jyani, which extended their custody. Former Rajasthan Water Resource Minister Maderna, who represents Osian Assembly constituency, was sacked from the state cabinet on October 16 by Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot after reports of his...
11:57 PM, Dec 24, 2011
Mumbai: A special court on Tuesday extended till January 3 the judicial custody of all the eleven accused, including woman journalist Jigna Vora, arrested in connection with the murder of the senior crime reporter Jyotirmoy Dey. Vora, who had, on December 13 filed an application in the special Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA) court, seeking an in-camera trial in the case and restraining media from running stories on...
04:17 AM, Dec 21, 2011
Jodhpur: A Jodhpur court on Wednesday extended CBI custody of Amarchand, husband of missing ANM Bhanwari Devi till December 20. Amarchand's five-day CBI custody expired on Wednesday after which he was produced in the agency's court. The agency sought extension of Amarchand's custody for a week citing his non-cooperation during the investigation. He was arrested by the CBI on December 8 and was produced before the court next day, where...
08:46 PM, Dec 14, 2011
New Delhi: A Delhi court on Monday remanded six suspected Indian Mujahideen operatives allegedly involved in various blasts across India in police custody for 10 days. Officials of the special cell of the Delhi Police on November 30 arrested the six alleged terrorists from Delhi, Bihar and Chennai and recovered two AK-47 rifles, a 9 mm pistol, 5 kgs of explosives and 64 cartridges from the accused. Going by the...
05:04 PM, Dec 05, 2011
London: Iqbal Mirchi, the right hand man of underworld don Dawood Ibrahim and an accused in the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts, was on Thursday remanded to judicial custody by a British court after he was charged with threatening to kill a man, police sources said. 61-year-old Mirchi, who was arrested from Romford in Essex on Tuesday, was produced at Red Bridge Magistrate Court here today and remanded to judicial custody,...
10:48 PM, Oct 13, 2011
New Delhi: A Delhi court will hear the bail pleas of BJP leader LK Advani's former aide Sudheendra Kulkarni and former BJP MPs Mahavir Singh Bhagora and Faggan Singh Kulaste in the cash-for-votes scam case on Thursday. All three were arrested for their alleged role in the 2008 cash-for-votes scam. The court on October 3 decided to watch the footage of the sting operation conducted in the run up to...
08:44 AM, Oct 13, 2011
New Delhi: The judicial custody of the two accused arrested in the September 7 Delhi High Court blast case will end on Friday. Abid Hussain and Amir Abbas, arrested by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) from Jammu and Kashmir, will be produced in the court on Friday. They were arrested from Kishtwar in Jammu and Kashmir for allegedly sending a terror e-mail from a cyber cafe hours after the blast....
10:12 AM, Oct 07, 2011
