Ahmedabad: The Gujarat government bore the wrath of the High Court on Friday as it slammed the administration for "obstructing" the CBI probe into the Ishrat Jahan fake encounter case. CBI sources had said that the Gujarat government was opposed to one of its officers, Satish Verma, carrying out the investigations.
The HC bench tore into the government asking whether its duty was to cooperate with the agency or create hurdles in its probe. "What is the role of the state? To cooperate or create obstacles in investigation? The state is duty-bound to cooperate with the investigating agency," Justice Patel said. The judge added that the court was "unable to understand the state government's objection" to Verma.
Justice Patel further asked the CBI to focus on whether the 2004 encounter was staged.
The court's reactions came after the CBI submitted a report on the case before it on Thursday. The investigative body is yet to file charges in the case although it has questioned senior and former officials of the Gujarat Police as well as the Intelligence Bureau or IB....
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05:30 PM, Jun 14, 2013
New Delhi: The Gujarat High court, hearing Ishrat Jahan fake encounter case, has on Friday told the Central Bureau of Investigation that the focus should be on ensuring proper investigation. "For the CBI, the focus should be on ensuring proper investigation. Your investigation should not focus on whether the Intelligence Bureau data was genuine or false," said Justice Jayant Patel. The CBI wanted IPS officer Satish Verma to continue assisting...
02:45 PM, Jun 14, 2013
Kolkata: The Calcutta High Court has directed the state government to file an affidavit on the progress made in investigations in the Barasat gangrape and murder case. Seven people have been arrested so far. The court gave the order while hearing a PIL seeking an SIT probe. Last Friday, a 20-year-old college student was allegedly gangraped and murdered at Barasat in North 24 Parganas. The incident took place when the...
01:41 PM, Jun 12, 2013
Mumbai: The Bombay High Court on Tuesday said it would appoint a Special Investigation Team (SIT) to probe the alleged Rs 6,000 crore scam into the purchases of materials related to various tribal development schemes in Maharashtra. A division bench of Justices VM Kanade and RP Sondurbaldota was hearing a petition filed by Bahiram Motiram, a tribal from Nashik district, demanding the CBI probe into alleged irregularities. According to the...
05:50 PM, Jun 11, 2013
Mumbai: The Bombay High Court on Monday asked private lender Yes Bank to advance its board meeting and hold it before June 27 while asking plaintiff Madhu Kapur, wife of the bank's deceased co-founder Ashok Kapur, to name her nominee for a board position. Justice SJ Kathawala on Monday directed Madhu Kapur to make a formal representation to the bank, nominating her daughter Shagun Gogia as nominee-director, so that the...
08:30 PM, Jun 10, 2013
New Delhi: All of 19, a teenaged girl was abandoned by her family after being raped by a neighbour last year. Weak and helpless in the ninth month of her pregnancy, she wants the state to take care of her child. "I've no money or means to support the child. My family has left me. The state should provide for this child," says the rape survivor. After a lower court...
07:29 AM, Jun 08, 2013
Allahabad: The Allahabad High Court has put a stay on the Akhilesh Yadav government's decision to withdraw cases against terror accused. The Lucknow bench has referred the case to a larger bench. This came after the UP government announced that it wants to withdraw cases against 16 terror accused in the 2007 serial blasts in Lucknow, Varanasi and Faizabad. The High Court had earlier questioned the legality of this decision...
11:53 AM, Jun 07, 2013
Ravi Shankaran got a breather in the naval war room leak case as he won't be immediately extradited. His plea will be taken up in the UK High Court now after the Court of Appeal admitted his plea against extradition on Monday. ...
09:41 PM, Jun 03, 2013
London: A Sikh man in Ireland has lost his appeal in a court to be allowed to wear the turban while on duty in a volunteer group for that country's police force. High court Judge Kevin Feeney in Ireland Thursday dismissed the appeal by Ravinder Singh Oberoi to be allowed to wear the turban while on duty for the Garda Reserve, a volunteer group formed to assist the Garda Siochana,...
05:39 PM, May 31, 2013
New Delhi: A Delhi High Court judge on Friday recused himself from hearing a plea of senior Congress leader Jagdish Tytler challenging a lower court order by which the CBI was asked to further investigate his role in a 1984 anti-Sikh riots case. "In any case, I am not going to hear it. Put this matter on July 3 before another bench," Justice Kailash Gambhir said, without assigning any reasons...
03:07 PM, May 31, 2013
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court dismissed a plea challenging the appointment of Delhi Police Commissioner Neeraj Kumar on the grounds of alleged abuse of power and rights violation on Friday. A division bench of Chief Justice D Murugesan and Justice Jayant Nath accepted the recommendations of the lieutenant governor that Neeraj Kumar's ACR (annual confidential reports) records in his entire career were outstanding. The bench also accepted the home...
12:13 PM, May 31, 2013
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court will decide on a plea filed by Congress leader Jagdish Tytler challenging the trial court's decision to order the re-opening of a 1984 anti-Sikh riots case against him. Tytler had moved the High Court on Wednesday challenging the trial court's order which had set aside a clean chit given to him by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in a 29-year-old anti-Sikh riots case...
09:25 AM, May 31, 2013
New Delhi: Over one lakh cases are pending with the Delhi High Court, a biennial report for 2010-12 said. The report, which was released by Chief Justice D Murugesan on Thursday morning, showed that there is decline in the pendency of cases with the disposal figure of 1,22,141 cases between April 1, 2011 and March 31, 2012. According to the report, as on March 31, 2012 the total pendency figure...
04:13 AM, May 31, 2013
Kanpur: A woman in Kanpur, who had been granted bail 19 years ago, was finally released from jail this week after her son - born in a jail - grew up to earn enough money for her bond money. Vijay Kumari is home after 19 years and all thanks to her son Kanhaiya who fought relentlessly against the system to have her back. Kumari had been languishing in jail since...
07:40 AM, May 30, 2013
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Wednesday asked the city police and co-accused Aruna Chadha to file written submissions on the plea of latter seeking quashing of fresh charges, including abetment of rape, against her in the former air hostess Geetika Sharma suicide case. "Brief synopsis be filed, indicating the evidence relied upon by both the parties with the respective page numbers, within four weeks. Re-notify on July 3,"...
09:59 PM, May 29, 2013
Chennai: The Madras High Court on Wednesday adjourned till Thursday the hearing on the anticipatory bail application and an interim anticipatory bail plea filed by city-based hotelier Vikram Aggarwal, summoned by Mumbai Police in connection with the IPL betting case. When the matter came up for hearing on Wednesday, Justice CT Selvam adjourned hearing on both the applications till Thursday. Aggarwal had filed an antipatory bail application, saying though he...
06:33 PM, May 29, 2013
Raipur: Chhattisgarh High Court's Justice Prashant Mishra will probe the Maoist attack on Congress leaders in Chhattisgarh last weekend. The judicial commission headed by Justice Mishra has been constituted to probe the Naxal attack in Jiram valley of Darbha region of Bastar district and it will submit its report within three months, an official here said on Tuesday night. Chief Minister Raman Singh had on Saturday ordered the judicial probe...
11:55 PM, May 28, 2013
Madurai: A PIL seeking to reinvestigate the the assassination case of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi has been filed in the Madras High Court bench in Madurai on Tuesday. The petitioner V Santhakumaresan, an advocate, said in his PIL that "the reinvestigation, in the interest of justice, may bring out buried truths". The important grounds under which the petitioner sought reinvestigation included the reported statement of CBI investigating officer Ragothaman...
03:27 PM, May 28, 2013
Kochi: Kerala High Court on Tuesday stayed for a week the order of a lower court directing Bitti Mohanty, accused in the 2006 German tourist rape case in Rajasthan, to undergo DNA test. The interim order in this regard was issued by justice K Harilal on a petition filed by Bitti, son of former Odisha DGP, BB Mohanty, challenging the order of sessions court, Thalassery granting permission to conduct a...
03:18 PM, May 28, 2013
Lahore: A Pakistani court has adjourned for nearly four months the hearing of a petition filed by Lashkar-e-Taiba founder Hafiz Mohammad Saeed seeking legal aid from the government to defend himself in a US lawsuit over the 2008 Mumbai attacks. A Deputy Attorney General told Lahore High Court Chief Justice Umar Ata Bandial on Monday that the US State and Justice Departments had challenged the American court's jurisdiction for issuing...
11:15 AM, May 28, 2013
