Srinagar: The Supreme Court on Tuesday in its verdict in the Pathribal fake encounter case of Kashmir said that prior permission of the central government is needed to prosecute Army officers. The apex court said that the Army will decide in eight weeks whether the officer accused of fake encounter will be court martialled or face criminal trial. If it is decided that they will be court martialled, then proceedings...
11:06 AM, May 01, 2012
Ahmedabad: A Gujarat High Court judge on Wednesday recused himself form hearing the bail plea of suspended IPS officer Abhay Chudasama who is currently behind bars on the charge of being the key conspirator in the 2005 Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter case. When the matter came up for hearing before Justice MD Shah, he recused himself from the case, saying "not before me". He did not give any reason for...
06:23 PM, Apr 18, 2012
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday issued a notice to the Centre and state governments to frame guidelines to probe fake encounters. The order came after the Gujarat government protested an earlier order by the apex court to probe alleged fake encounters in the state between 2003 and 2007. The Gujarat government said in a petition that all states must be asked to look into fake encounters since these...
01:36 PM, Apr 13, 2012
New Delhi: The BJP on Saturday cited the observations of a Rajasthan High Court judge that the CBI should be shut down to insist that the Congress governments at the Centre and in Rajasthan were "misusing" the agency to target its leader Rajendra Rathore in an encounter case. The BJP has stood firm behind party's Chief Whip in Rajasthan Assembly Rathore, who has been arrested after the CBI named him...
07:59 PM, Apr 07, 2012
Jaipur: The Rajasthan High Court on Friday came down heavily on CBI for giving 'differential' treatment to the accused in Dara Singh fake encounter case in which a DIG and a BJP MLA were among those arrested, saying the agency's objectives have been compromised and it was high time it was 'shut down'. "It appears that accused in the same case are being given differential treatment by CBI. You people...
07:44 AM, Apr 07, 2012
Jaipur: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has arrested former Rajasthan minister Rajendra Rathore in the Dara Singh fake encounter case. Rathore is believed to be close to former Rajasthan chief minister Vasundhara Raje. Liquor smuggler Dara Singh was killed in an alleged fake encounter in 2006. ...
12:40 PM, Apr 05, 2012
Lucknow: A CBI court in Ghaziabad on Thursday sentenced 16 policemen to life imprisonment and one to seven years in jail in the fake encounter of alleged terrorist Jaivinder Singh alias Jasana of Amritsar in the jungles of Kashiwala in Bijnore district in 1992. Pronouncing the judgement the court also slapped a fine of Rs 5000 on each of the convicts, Home department sources said in Lucknow. Though the accomplice...
03:02 AM, Mar 30, 2012
Srinagar: It's been 12 years since the alleged horrific fake encounters in Pathribal in Kashmir. But the wait for justice is still not over. Five men were picked up in March, 2000 by army men and were later found dead. CNN-IBN met with the family of one of the victims who are still waiting for justice. Roshan Jan has been in mourning for the last 12 years. But tears and...
08:50 AM, Mar 25, 2012
Ahmedabad: Former Supreme Court judge MB Shah, who had been entrusted with the task to look into the alleged fake encounters between 2002 to 2006 in Gujarat, has informed the apex court that he cannot head the inquiry as he is already "overburdened" with other probes. In a letter written to the apex court, Justice Shah has conveyed his inability to head the inquiry in the alleged fake encounters between...
10:54 PM, Feb 18, 2012
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
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