Actor Sanjay Dutt, who had surrendered in a TADA court in Mumbai on May 16 in the 1993 Bombay blasts case, was shifted to Pune's Yerwada Jail on Wednesday. ...
11:36 PM, May 23, 2013
BJP MP Kirti Azad has targeted the party's senior leader Arun Jaitley over the IPL spot-fixing scandal. Questioning the BCCI disciplinary committee headed by Jaitley, Azad said, "Hand over the spot-fixing probe to the NIA. What is the disciplinary committee doing?" ...
03:44 PM, May 23, 2013
New Delhi: The BJP on Wednesday targeted the UPA government over appointment of Shashi Kant Sharma as the new Comptroller and Auditor General of India, and said there was "institutional conflict of interest" as he will be auditing defence deals which were finalised during his term as defence secretary. Bharatiya Janata Party leader Arun Jaitley said he was not making remark about the individual but it was an "institutional conflict...
05:08 AM, May 23, 2013
Pune: The new identity for Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt from Wednesday is prisoner number 16656 at Yerwada Central Jail in Pune where he was shifted from Mumbai's Arthur Road Prison following his surrender before a TADA court. Dutt, whose conviction in 1993 Mumbai serial blasts case was upheld by the Supreme Court in March 2013, was brought to Yerwada Jail at the crack of dawn on Wednesday. He is lodged...
11:01 PM, May 22, 2013
New Delhi: As the UPA II completes four years and is set to release its report card at its celebration dinner on Wednesday evening, the Bharatiya Janata Party has questioned as to what is the celebration for. Attacking the UPA government over a range of issues, the BJP said the UPA government has failed on all fronts. BJP leader Sushma Swaraj began by attacking the UPA over the lack of...
12:06 PM, May 22, 2013
Mumbai: Actor Sanjay Dutt, who had surrendered in a TADA court in Mumbai on May 16 in the 1993 Bombay blasts case, was shifted to Pune's Yerwada Jail on Wednesday. The 53-year-old Bollywood star was lodged in the 'anda' cell in the Arthur Road jail after Dutt surrendered before the expiry of the Supreme Court-set deadline to serve his remaining sentence in the 1993 Bombay serial blasts case. Dutt had...
08:05 AM, May 22, 2013
Lucknow: BJP president Rajnath Singh will lead the party's 'jail bharo' agitation in Lucknow on June 2, 2013 against corruption under the UPA rule. BJP state unit president, Laxmi Kant Bajpai, who reviewed the preparation for the week-long agitation starting May 27, said that besides the national president, newly appointed in-charge of the state affairs, Amit Shah will also be present in Rampur during the agitation on May 29. Claiming...
01:38 AM, May 22, 2013
New Delhi: Delhi Police on Tuesday refuted the allegations of the four accused in the December 16 gangrape case in a special court that the victim was not assaulted by iron rods and she died before being taken to Singapore. "It is wrong to suggest that I had not taken the opinion of the doctors during the lifetime of the victim, despite various opportunities, as the said weapons were allegedly...
10:14 PM, May 21, 2013
New Delhi: Police on Tuesday made recoveries from Rajasthan Royals player Sreesanth's friend's house in Jaipur, sources said. Sreesanth, who has been accused of spot-fixing at least three matches of Indian Premier League's sixth edition, took the police team to Jaipur and led them to the recoveries, they added. Police recovered clothes worth Rs 1.95, bought from a Diesel showroom in Mumbai, from his friend's house, according to the sources....
06:00 PM, May 21, 2013
Jaipur: In a shocking case of alleged sexual assault and harassment, 10 more differently-abled girls have revealed they were victim to the abuse. Five people were arrested on Saturday for sexually assaulting the orphaned girls at a residential therapy centre in Jaipur. Earlier, the therapy centre's warden, accountant and his wife, a security guard and an administrator were arrested in connection with the case. The therapy centre Awaaz Foundation was...
07:11 PM, May 20, 2013
Mumbai: Actor Sanjay Dutt will remain in the 'anda' (egg-shaped) cell in the high-security block at the Arthur Road jail in Mumbai for some time, a top police officer said on Monday, as authorities in Maharashtra debate whether to shift him out of Mumbai. "We will take some more time to take a call on whether to shift Dutt or not. He will not be shifted anywhere in the near...
05:16 PM, May 20, 2013
Guwahati: BJP will launch a week-long 'Jail Bharo' campaign protesting against alleged corrupt practices of the UPA government. The campaign would start on May 27 and continue till June 2 in all states, BJP vice president SS Ahluwalia told reporters in Guwahati on Sunday. The UPA government at the Centre had over the years been rocked by various scams losing the moral right to continue in office, he said. Various...
03:53 AM, May 20, 2013
Hyderabad: Three Congress MPs from Telangana region on Saturday said they would not hesitate to quit if the party leadership does not take a decision on statehood issue by May 30. The MPs -- M Jagannath, G Vivek and S Rajaiah -- met in Hyderabad and discussed the issue. Talking to reporters, Jagannath said they would not hesitate to quit the party if no favourable decision came by May 30....
05:15 PM, May 19, 2013
BCCI on Sunday will hold an emergency meet in Chennai to discuss the spot-fixing scandal in IPL 6. Three players of Rajasthan Royals - Sreesanth, Ankeet Chavan and Ajit Chandila were arrested on Wednesday after Delhi Police broke out Spot-fixing scandaL. The Special Commissioner, Special cell, SN Srivastava has told CNN-IBN that BCCI is in touch with the Delhi police. ...
10:20 AM, May 19, 2013
Jaipur: Jaipur police will share with their Delhi counterparts the call details of mobile phones seized during raids to assist with the ongoing IPL spot-fixing probe. "Over 250 mobile phones, some laptops and other items were seized during 16 raids in the city during the IPL season this year and call details of the mobile phones will be shared with Delhi police to assist them in the ongoing probe in...
02:50 PM, May 18, 2013
Jaipur: In a shocking case of alleged sexual assault on hearing and speech impaired girls in Jaipur, five people have been arrested. The alleged incident took place at a residential therapy centre in Jaipur. The minor girls used to often stay at the centre for their therapy sessions. The therapy centre's warden, accountant and his wife, a security guard and an administrator have been arrested in connection with the case....
12:41 PM, May 18, 2013
New Delhi/Chitrakoot: A Delhi Police assistant sub-inspector was shot dead by an unknown attacker in the outskirts of Chitrakoot in Uttar Pradesh, police said on Friday. The officer had gone to Chitrakoot for a raid to nab a criminal. Additional Commissioner of Police Sanjay Kumar said that Jai Bhagwan, who was to retire in August 2013, had gone to Chitrakoot to nab an accused in a theft case in Delhi....
04:59 AM, May 18, 2013
Mumbai: Bollywood filmmaker Mahesh Bhatt, who stood by Sanjay Dutt during his trying times, is confident the actor will make a fresh start after completing his jail term. Sanjay surrendered at the TADA Court Thursday to serve his remaining three-and-a-half year jail term in the 1993 Mumbai serial bomb blast case. The actor will be moved to Pune's Yerwada jail. "Sanjay has decided that he will face his jail sentence...
05:56 PM, May 17, 2013
Mumbai: Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt spent his first night after returning to prison reading spiritual books even as Maharashtra Government authorities are yet to decide on keeping him at Arthur Road Central Jail in Mumbai or shifting him elsewhere. The 53-year-old filmstar surrendered before TADA Court on Thursday and was later shifted to the high-security jail in central Mumbai. He has to serve 42 more months in jail after his...
05:33 PM, May 17, 2013
Mumbai: Lodged in an egg-shaped high-security 'Anda' cell, Sanjay Dutt is feeling "suffocated" in its confines, which are generally used to house terror suspects and hardcore criminals, and the actor pleaded a TADA court on Friday to shift him to another cell as he is not a terrorist. Rizwan Merchant, counsel for Dutt, made an oral plea before the court here to shift the filmstar from 'Anda' cell in Arthur...
05:18 PM, May 17, 2013
