New Delhi: More than two years after reserving its verdict, the Delhi High Court will on Wednesday decide whether to prosecute 19 witnesses including Bollywood actor Shyan Munshi on the charge of perjury for turning hostile during the trial of Jessica Lal murder case. A bench of justices S Ravindra Bhat and GP Mittal would pronounce its decision in the afternoon in the case in which the high court had taken suo motu cognisance and questioned the prosecution as to how all the witnesses took somersault during the trial.
It had reserved its order on May 4, 2011, after hearing arguments on behalf of police and the witnessess who had turned hostile. Lall was shot dead in April 1999 by Manu Sharma, son of Haryana Congress leader Venod Sharma after she refused to serve a drink to him at a late night party at socialite Bina Ramani's restaurant Tamarind Court here in South Delhi. The High Court, which reversed trial court's verdict on December 18, 2006, awarded life imprisonment to Manu Sharma.
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03:07 AM, May 22, 2013
Ghaziabad: Dentist Rajesh Talwar on Tuesday told special court in Ghaziabad that the CBI did not carry out any dummy test at their Jalvayu Vihar residence where his daughter Aarushi and domestic servant Hemraj were killed five years ago. CBI investigator AGL Kaul, who led the second probe team in connection with the sensational murders, had claimed in his deposition as prosecution witness that he carried out such a test...
06:46 PM, May 21, 2013
New Delhi: Murdered teenager Aarushi Talwar's father Rajesh Talwar is being cross-examined in the Aarushi-Hemraj double murder case for the past two days. CNN-IBN has learned that Talwar has faced 411 questions already in two days. The Allahabad High Court on Tuesday rejected a plea filed by the Talwars' seeking to record the statements of 14 witnesses in the double murder case. The Supreme Court had earlier directed Rajesh and...
12:35 PM, May 21, 2013
New Delhi: The Allahabad High Court on Tuesday rejected a plea filed by the Talwars' seeking to record the statements of 14 witnesses in the Aarushi-Hemraj murder case. The Supreme Court had earlier directed Rajesh and Nupur Talwar to move the Allahabad High Court. The Talwar couple had approached the apex court challenging the order of the special CBI court rejecting their plea for calling 14 other witnesses, including ADG...
11:43 AM, May 21, 2013
Srinagar: In another case of fratricide, a personnel of the Sashastra Seema Bal allegedly killed two colleagues in Kishtwar late on Monday night. SSB personnel identified as Narinder Singh and Veer Singh died while two others were injured when their associate Vijay Kumar ran and fired at them while they were sleeping. Hospital authorities say four persons were brought at Kishtwar's District Hospital and among them Narinder Singh of Uttrakhand...
09:07 AM, May 21, 2013
Ghaziabad: Dentist Rajesh Talwar on Monday claimed in the court that he was asleep on the fateful night when his daughter Aarushi and domestic help Hemraj were murdered and internet activity recorded from his room might not be correct. Talwar's statement is being recorded under section 313 of CrPC where the judge poses questions directly to the accused to explain his version of the circumstances. So far Special CBI Judge...
03:40 PM, May 20, 2013
Berhampur: A man was arrested for allegedly attempting to kill his six-month-old son by slitting his throat with a blade at Sorada in Odisha's Ganjam district, police said on Monday. Sitaram Sethi allegedly committed the offence in a fit of rage following a quarrel with his wife at their house in Sorada on Saturday, said officer-in-charge of local police outpost BK Sahu said. The baby was first admitted to Balipadar...
01:14 PM, May 20, 2013
Mathura: An unemployed youth allegedly killed his mother after she refused to give him money for his expenses in Balipur village, police said on Sunday. Police has arrested the accused son. According to the police sources, the 60-year-old, Bindawati refused to give money to her son following which he verbally abused her and hit her on the head using a stick. The victim died while being taken to the hospital,...
07:55 AM, May 20, 2013
Thane: A local court on Saturday rejected the anticipatory bail plea filed by builder SP Agarwal, accused in the Navi Mumbai builder Sunil Lahoria murder case. Lahoria was shot dead outside his office in Sector 28 of Vashi, Navi Mumbai, on February 16. Police have arrested eight persons, including shooters Venkatesh Shettiar, Wajid Qureshi, developer Sumit Bacchewar and former encounter specialist Emmanuel Amolik. However, three builders - Suresh Bijlani, SP...
03:45 AM, May 19, 2013
Lahore: A Pakistani judge investigating the murder of Indian death row convict Sarabjit Singh has appealed to Indian nationals having information about the matter to file written submissions with relevant documents within seven days. Justice Syed Mazahar Ali Akbar Naqvi of the Lahore High Court is investigating the death of Sarabjit following a brutal assault by prisoners within Kot Lakhpat Jail. "The Indians are required to get themselves registered with...
01:12 PM, May 18, 2013
Ghaziabad: Recording his statement in the Aarushi-Hemraj murder case, accused and Aarushi's father Rajesh Talwar Friday answered questions raised by the court from the evidence of the witnesses. To the about 180 questions asked, Talwar either denied the allegations or alleged the prosecution was trying to influence the witnesses, deviating from original statements recorded under section 161 of the Criminal Procedure Code. Asked by the court whether he agreed over...
11:37 PM, May 17, 2013
Patna: The Patna High Court on Friday acquitted three Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) politicians - Pappu Yadav, Munna Shukla and Rajan Tiwari - accused in the Brij Bihari Prasad murder case. The three were acquitted for lack of evidence. The court decided to give all three MLAs the benefit of doubt. All three are behind bars presently. Sources say that Munna Shukla and Rajan Tiwari may be released soon, but...
04:41 PM, May 17, 2013
Melbourne: A 21-year-old Australian man was on Friday sentenced to 45 years in jail with a minimum non-parole period of 30 years for the "planned and premeditated" rape and murder of Indian student Tosha Thakkar, who he strangled to death, stuffed into a suitcase and dumped in a canal. New South Wales Supreme Court Judge Derek Price sentenced Daniel Stani-Reginald to a maximum of 45 years in jail with a...
10:12 AM, May 17, 2013
Ghaziabad: A special Ghaziabad CBI court is likely to record statements of Rajesh and Nupur Talwar in the Aarushi-Hemraj double murder case on Friday. The statements could not be recorded on Tuesday, as scheduled, because the petition of the Talwar couple to summon 14 'crucial' witnesses in the case was pending in the Allahabad High Court. While the special CBI court on Tuesday slammed the "delaying tactics" allegedly being adopted...
09:39 AM, May 17, 2013
Ahmedabad: City police on Thursday registered an attempt to murder case against three men including two brothers for allegedly trying to burn a man alive. Harshwardhan Shah, the complainant, alleged that brothers Parag and Devang Dave, along with another unidentified man, accosted him near his house in Isanpur area late Wednesday night, and had a quarrel with him over the will of Daves' aunt. Following this, they allegedly set him...
01:15 AM, May 17, 2013
Former Uttar Pradesh minister Raja Bhaiya, who was questioned by the CBI on Wednesday, would be grilled on Thursday as well in connection with the Kunda DSP murder. Raja Bhaiya was questioned for over 11 hours on Wednesday. CBI sources said the leader may be booked for conspiracy to murder. ...
04:43 PM, May 16, 2013
Seattle: A 10-year-old Washington state boy was sentenced on Wednesday to up to five-and-a-half year in a juvenile detention facility for his role in a foiled plot to rape and kill a girl at his school and harm other children. The boy was charged with conspiracy to commit first-degree murder, juvenile firearm possession and witness tampering in connection with a plot in February at an elementary school in Colville, Washington,...
11:23 AM, May 16, 2013
Bhubaneswar: Unhappy over the probe by Crime Branch of state police into the mysterious death of a lady doctor in Puri in 2012, the National Commission for Women (NCW) on Wednesday suggested Odisha government to recommend a CBI probe into the matter. "We do not feel the state police is undertaking investigation into the death case involving a lady doctor in right way. Therefore, we suggest Odisha government to recommend...
01:46 AM, May 16, 2013
The Mumbai Police revealed shocking details of how an MBA hatched a plot to kidnap his 13-year-old cousin after losing money in an IPL bet and then got him hacked and burned to death by his friend when the police got to know of the case. ...
11:56 PM, May 15, 2013
New Delhi: Former Uttar Pradesh minister Raja Bhaiya will be questioned by the CBI again on Thursday in connection with the Kunda DSP murder. Raja Bhaiya was questioned for over 11 hours on Wednesday. CBI sources said the leader may be booked for conspiracy to murder. Raja Bhaiya refused to speak on the nature of his interrogation, saying, "Let's wait for investigations to be complete. The questioning will continue tomorrow...
11:49 PM, May 15, 2013
