Chennai: The CBI on Wednesday charged a police officer with abusing his official position when he was IG Police of West Zone, Coimbatore, and making his subordinates and accomplices extort Rs 2.85 crore, deposited by the public, from the Paazee Group of Companies. The agency said investigation had revealed that Pramod Kumar, Inspector General of Police (Armed Police), had an active role in "orchestrating the extortion through his subordinate police...
04:46 AM, Mar 29, 2012
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday will hear a plea by the convicts in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case. The convicts are reportedly seeking that the case be tried in the apex court. Meanwhile, the Madras High Court will also hear another petition by them seeking the setting aside of the President's order that rejected their mercy pleas. The convicts are pleading that the Madras High Court commute their...
10:00 AM, Mar 27, 2012
Chennai: The Madras High Court adjourned till March 27 the hearing on the petitions by the three men convicted for assassinating former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi to commute their death sentences, while the Tamil Nadu government filed an additional affidavit in support of their pleas. The court had on August 30 last year stayed the death sentence of Murugan, Santhan and Perarivalan in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case. This trio...
11:06 AM, Jan 31, 2012
New Delhi: The hearing of the petition to commute the death sentences of Rajiv Gandhi's assassins has been adjourned. The Madras High Court will now hear the case on January 31. The court had on Aug 30 stayed the death sentence of Murugan, Santhan and Perarivalan. The trio had earlier sought a stay on their execution on the ground that the President had taken 11 years in deposing their mercy...
12:10 PM, Nov 29, 2011
New Delhi: The fate of the convicts in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case may be decided on Tuesday. The Madras High Court will hear their petitions to commute their capital punishment. The court had on Aug 30 stayed the death sentence of Murugan, Santhan and Perarivalan. This trio had earlier sought a stay on their execution on the ground that the President had taken 11 years in deposing their mercy...
08:07 AM, Nov 29, 2011
Chennai: The Madras High Court on Wednesday issued notice to over 50 TV channels, including Doordarshan, on a plea to implead them in proceedings in a petition. The petition sought a direction to the Centre to set up a separate statutory regulatory body to monitor and regulate their programmes. The petitioner claimed that censorship of TV channels had become an absolute necessity as many programmes motivated thought and action, assuring...
11:33 PM, Nov 02, 2011
Madras High Court Justice Karnan specifically mentioned caste as a reason for his harassment. ...
02:17 PM, Nov 02, 2011
New Delhi: The hearing of the assassination case of former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi was on Friday adjourned till November 29. The Madras High Court had on August 30 stayed the execution of the three accused " Murugan, Santhan and Perarivaian. This trio had earlier sought a stay on their execution on the ground that the President had taken 11 years in deposing their mercy pleas. They had termed the...
11:08 AM, Oct 28, 2011
New Delhi: A day after the Tamil Nadu Assembly passed an unprecedented resolution asking the President to reconsider the mercy pleas of former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi's killers, Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah has stirred a controversy by comparing the clemency appeals of Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru and Rajiv Gandhi's killers. Referring to Afzal Guru, who comes from Kashmir, the J&K Chief Minister asked on Twitter, "If...
12:01 PM, Aug 31, 2011
The Madras High Court stayed the execution of the former PM Rajiv Gandhi's assassins for eight weeks. ...
11:58 PM, Aug 30, 2011
Chennai: The Madras High Court on Tuesday ordered a stay on hanging of Murugan alias Sriharan, Santhan and Perarivalan alias Arivu convicted for Rajiv Gandhi's assassination for another eight weeks, giving them a brief reprieve. Twenty one years after the assassination of former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi, it's now at least another eight more weeks of legal drama before a decision is taken on whether or not three of the...
11:22 PM, Aug 30, 2011
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11:18 PM, Aug 30, 2011
Chennai: The Madras High Court has granted bail to DMK MLA J Anbazhagan, who apprehended arrest in connection with a complaint against him for alleged land grabbing. Granting bail for a three-week period, Justice T Sudanthiram on Thursday directed Anbazhagan, who represents Chepauk assembly segment in the city, to furnish a personal bond and appear before the police if required. The complaint against the legislator was lodged by one Dharmaraj....
10:21 PM, Aug 26, 2011
Kancheepuram: Kanchi Sankaracharya Jayendra Saraswathi, prime accused in the Sankararaman murder case, on Friday refuted allegations that he had attempted to influence the judge hearing the case. "I have never met or interacted with the Judge in question except once, and that on August 18, when there was a hearing of my case in his court. That was the only occasion when I have met or spoken to the judge...
12:37 PM, Aug 26, 2011
The trial has been stayed for eight weeks, after audio tapes of Sankaracharya allegedly trying to bribe the judge in the case surfaced. ...
08:56 AM, Aug 26, 2011
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