A bus driver ran amok in Pune on Wednesday morning, killing nine people and injuring 27. ...
10:30 PM, Jan 25, 2012
New Delhi: With the Supreme Court issuing yet another direction to Narendra Modi-run Gujarat on Wednesday, the Congress said the Chief Minister should have resigned by now in the wake of several strictures, observations and inquiries against his government on diverse matters. "It is not going to happen given the fact that "obduracy and insensitivity is the norm of the Chief Minister (Modi) ....who is thick-skinned and greedy for power"...
07:38 PM, Jan 25, 2012
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Wednesday referred all cases of alleged fake encounters that took place in Gujarat between 2003-2006 to Justice (retired) MB Shah. The apex court directed the one-man committee of Justice Shah to decide whether the cases of fake encounters require independent investigation or not. Justice Shah will give his report to the Supreme Court in three months. Noted lyricist Javed Akhtar and journalist BG Verghese...
01:45 PM, Jan 25, 2012
New Delhi: The succession war for the Army Chief's post is getting murky with allegations of a fake encounter re-surfacing against Eastern Army Commander Lieutenant General Bikram Singh, tipped to succeed General VK Singh. The J&K High Court has served a notice to the Defence Ministry and the Omar Abdullah government after an NGO, Anhaad, filed a petition seeking details of the encounter that took place in 2001. The petitioner...
10:37 AM, Jan 11, 2012
New Delhi: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) team constituted to probe Ishrat Jahan fake encounter case is set to take control of the investigation from Thursday. The case was transferred to the crime branch after SIT had lodged a complaint declaring that the encounter was fake. The CBI so far has registered a case against 20 Gujarat police officers on grounds of murder and destruction of evidence. The CBI...
06:48 AM, Jan 05, 2012
New Delhi: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has registered an FIR in the Ishrat Jahan encounter case with the CBI's Mumbai Special Crime Unit on Saturday. Three days ago, the CBI had received the official complaint from the Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing the case. Those accused are in the report are 20 Gujarat police officers ranging from constables to then commissioner of Ahmedabad city. The CBI has registered...
11:18 AM, Dec 17, 2011
New Delhi: The Supreme Court pulled up the Narendra Modi government on Thursday for not handing over the CD's to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in the Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter case. The apex court had directed the Gujarat government to submit the CDs with call details of senior state police officials allegedly involved in the fake encounter case. Rapping the state government, the Supreme Court has given the...
01:55 PM, Dec 01, 2011
Maoist sympathiser Varavara Rao says the maoists are seeing unforeseen violence from the state's side. ...
11:35 AM, Dec 01, 2011
Maoist sympathiser Varavara Rao says the maoists are seeing unforeseen violence from the state's side. ...
11:35 AM, Dec 01, 2011
Ahmedabad: The Gujarat High Court is likely to come to a decision on Thursday on which agency must continue to investigate the Ishrat Jahan fake encounter case. At present, the SIT, the CBI and the NIA are investigating the case. The victim's family favours an SIT probe. An FIR may also be filed in the case. Meanwhile, IPS officer GL Singhal, prime suspect in the Ishrat Jahan fake encounter case,...
08:53 AM, Dec 01, 2011
New Delhi: Home Minister P Chidambaram on Wednesday backed West Bengal government's claim the Maoist leader Kishenji was killed in a gunfight and not in a fake encounter. Chidambaram, while addressing a press conference in New Delhi, said that the November 24 police encounter in which Kishenji was killed was not fake. The Home Minsiter said that the Center has never encouraged fake encounters or killing of persons after they...
05:04 PM, Nov 30, 2011
Kolkata: The postmortem report has ruled out possibility of fake encounter in the killing of top Maoist leader Mallojula Koteswara Rao alias Kishenji. According to the report, six bullets and two splinters from grenades found in the body and all the bullets were fired from a distance. However, the West Bengal government has already ordered a CID probe, and two days after he was killed, the state CID has begun...
05:33 PM, Nov 26, 2011
Kolkata: There is a time gap of almost 17 months between the violent deaths of top Maoist leaders Cherukuri Rajkumar alias Azad and M Koteshwar Rao alias Kishenji. Yet there are distinct similarities between the two incidents. Both Azad and Kishenji hailed from Andhra Pradesh and were members of the outlawed Communist Party of India-Maoist politburo, the banned outfit's top policy-making body. While Azad was the party's national spokesman, Kishenji...
01:01 PM, Nov 26, 2011
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11:35 PM, Nov 22, 2011
New Delhi: A day after the Special Investigation Team (SIT) told the Gujarat High Court that the Ishrat Jahan encounter was not genuine, former Home Secretary GK Pillai on Tuesday has defended the Gujarat government's claim that the Intelligence Bureau had given inputs against Ishrat. But the revelation has now rekindled a critical debate, is the murder of a terror suspect less unlawful than that of an innocent 19-year-old college...
10:28 PM, Nov 22, 2011
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