New Delhi: Sadhvi Pragya Thakur, the chief accused in the 2008 Malegaon blasts case has been admitted to hospital after she suffered a paralytic attack.
Earlier this year, the NIA had opposed granting Thakur bail for health reasons.
Sadhvi Pragya is an accused in the September 2008 blast that killed six people and injured several in Malegaon. Earlier in September 2011, the Supreme Court had rejected her bail plea. She has been in custody of the ATS since October 2008, and is facing charges under MCOCA.
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06:40 PM, Apr 10, 2013
Authorities on Tuesday told the special MCOCA court that they are contemplating shifting the suspected LeT operative and key plotter of 26/11 terror strikes Abu Jundal from Arthur Road jail to a facility at Taloja in Navi Mumbai. ...
09:03 PM, Apr 02, 2013
Suspected LeT operative and key plotter of 26/11 terror strikes Abu Jundal has threatened to go on hunger strike if not taken out of solitary confinement. He said this in a letter submitted today by authorities of Arthur Road jail, where he has been lodged, to the special Maharashtra Control of Organised Crimes Act (MCOCOA) court which is trying him in connection with the 2006 Aurangabad arms haul case. ...
10:04 PM, Apr 01, 2013
A special MCOCA court on Saturday allowed the accused in July 2006 suburban train blasts case to examine Indian Mujhahideen (IM) co-founder Sadiq Israr Sheikh and two others as defence witnesses, ignoring opposition by the Anti-Terrorism Squad. The defence had filed an application in the Maharashtra Control of Organised Crimes Act court seeking to call Sadiq, Arif Badruddin and Ansar Ahmed--all allegedly involved in various blasts across India in 2008--as...
12:30 AM, Mar 31, 2013
LeT operative and key 26/11 attacks handler Abu Jundal's plea that he must not be kept in the barrack where hanged terrorist Ajmal Kasab was kept was on Monday rejected by a local court. "The court rejected the application in which we had sought that he should not be kept in Kasab's barrack as Jundal was hallucinating about him," said his lawyer Ejaz Naqvi. ...
08:40 PM, Mar 18, 2013
Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur, a key accused in the 2008 Malegoan blast case, on Monday filed an application before the Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA) court seeking temporary bail to perform last rites of her father. ...
10:01 PM, Mar 04, 2013
A 28-year-old man accused under the stringent provisions of MCOCA has approached the Bombay High Court seeking bail on the ground that he has been diagnosed with AIDS and has only two more years to live. The accused, lodged in the Arthur Road prison since September 2010, was recently told by doctors that he will live only two more years after he was diagnosed with AIDS and abdomen cancer. ...
10:35 PM, Dec 10, 2012
Mumbai: Maharashtra's Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) probing the 2006 suburban train blasts, filed an affidavit in the Bombay High Court on Monday saying that it had destroyed call data records (CDRs) of all the 13 accused. The affidavit, filed by Sunil Wadke, who was then a police inspector attached to the technical unit cell of ATS, said that a year after obtaining the information in the form of soft copies, it...
09:39 PM, Oct 22, 2012
New Delhi: Key 26/11 attacks handler Abu Jundal's police custody ends on Monday and the matter is set to come up for hearing at a Mumbai court. The Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) was given the custody of Jundal for their investigations into the 2006 arms haul case and the 26/11 attacks. In May 2006, the ATS chased down two vehicles on the Chandwad-Manmad Highway in Aurangabad, one of which was...
08:04 AM, Sep 10, 2012
New Delhi: A Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA) court on Monday extended the custody of key 26/11 handler Abu Jundal till September 10. The court also allowed Jundal to meet his parents for about ten minutes to arrange for a lawyer. Jundal was brought to Mumbai in July after a Delhi court gave the Maharahstra ATS his custody. The ATS, in turn, handed Jundal over to the Mumbai...
12:23 PM, Sep 03, 2012
Mumbai: A Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA) court will on Monday decide whether to extend the police custody of key 26/11 handler Abu Jundal. Jundal was brought to Mumbai in July after a Delhi court gave the Maharahstra ATS his custody. The ATS, in turn, handed Jundal over to the Mumbai Crime Branch. ...
08:32 AM, Sep 03, 2012
Mumbai: A special Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA) court is expected to announce the quantum of punishment for Arun Gawli on Friday. The gangster-turned politician and 11 others were convicted for the murder of Shiv Sena corporator Kamlakar Jamsandekar last week. During arguments on sentencing, the once feared underworld don told Special Judge Pritiviraj Chavan there was no reason for him to kill Jamsandekar for a "paltry" amount...
08:59 AM, Aug 31, 2012
Mumbai: The special Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA) court on Friday convicted gangster turned politician Arun Gawli in the murder case of Shiv Sena corporator Kamlakar Jamsandekar. The court also convicted eleven others accused while the sentence will be pronounced on August 27. One of the accused, Bala Surve, died during trial, while three accused were acquitted for lack of evidence. Jamsandekar was shot dead in March 2008...
01:38 PM, Aug 24, 2012
Mumbai: Key 26/11 handler Abu Jundal was on Tuesday allowed to speak to his parents on the mobile phone after a court allowed permission. Jundal had reportedly sought permission from the court to speak to his parents. Jundal was on Monday sent to ATS custody till August 24 in connection with the Aurangabad arms haul case of 2006. Jundal was in the custody of Mumbai Police since July 21, when...
01:03 PM, Aug 14, 2012
Mumbai: The special Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA) court on Thursday rejected the bail application of Paulson Joseph, an alleged Chota Rajan aide, arrested in connection with the murder of senior journalist Jyotirmoy Dey. According to the police, Paulson had supplied mobile SIM cards to the shooters who were in touch with Rajan by phone. Paulson, in his now retracted confession, had said that journalist Jigna Vora -...
08:20 PM, Aug 02, 2012
Mumbai: Journalist Jigna Vora, an accused in the murder of senior crime reporter J Dey, was granted bail by a Mumbai court on Friday. Vora was arrested in November 25, 2011 and was in judicial custody. J Dey, a senior crime journalist with MiD Day, was shot dead in Mumbai on June 11, 2011 by four bike-borne assailants. Vora, Deputy Chief of Bureau of Asian Age, was the eleventh arrested...
05:58 PM, Jul 27, 2012
Mumbai: A special MCOCA court on Wednesday allowed jailed scribe Jigna Vora, who was arrested in connection with the 2011 senior journalist Jyotirmoy Dey murder case, to get home-cooked food on health grounds. The Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA) court on Wednesday approved the application filed earlier by Vora, currently lodged in the Byculla jail in Mumbai, seeking home-made food. The deputy Chief of Bureau of a city-based...
09:44 PM, May 16, 2012
New Delhi: The Delhi Police on Friday dropped MCOCA charges against gangster Abu Salem. The High Court accepted the Delhi Police plea to drop the charges. Delhi Police had said the charges violate Salem's extradition rules. The Portugal court wanted MCOCA removed if Salem's extradition was to stand. "The petition of Delhi Police is allowed. The order dated August 28, 2009 passed by the designated lower court is set aside....
05:19 PM, May 11, 2012
Mumbai: Journalist Jigna Vora on Tuesday was charged under sections of Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA), Arms Act and Bombay Police Act in J Dey murder case. The Crime Branch filed a supplementary chargesheet detailing the role allegedly played by Vora in the murder of Mumbai-based journalist. Vora has been accused of criminal conspiracy in the case and was arrested on November 25, 2011. The police believe the...
12:59 PM, Feb 21, 2012
Mumbai: The Crime Branch is likely to file a supplementary chargesheet detailing the role allegedly played by journalist Jigna Vora in the murder of Mumbai-based journalist J Dey. "We are likely to file a supplementary chargesheet against Vora tomorrow (Tuesday). We have gathered enough evidence against her to make a case," Additional Commissioner of Police (Crime Branch) Devendra Bharti said. Vora has been accused of criminal conspiracy in the case...
09:23 AM, Feb 21, 2012
