Jodhpur: A revision petition against Bollywood actor Salman Khan in the 14-year-old blackbuck poaching case seeking additional charges against him under Arms Act was on Wednesday rejected by the Rajasthan High Court.
The court observed that the petition of the Rajasthan government has been pending for a long time and "that there was no point in carrying it further," government counsel Mahipal Bishnoi said. "So the court rejected the petition filed by the government leaving it to the discretion of the lower court to resume the trial," Bishnoi said.
The state government had filed the petition in the Rajasthan High Court in 2006 for revision of charges against Khan in the Arms Act after its plea was rejected by the lower court. Hastimal Saraswat, the counsel for Khan, told reporters that a complaint registered against Khan by the forest department on October 15, 1998 under the Arms Act, mentioning that the arms used by him during poaching of the two Blackbucks at Kankani in the intervening night of October 1-2, had their licences expired and hence he had been using those arms illegally.
Following this complaint, the Luni police registered a case against Khan under sections 3/25 and 27 of Arms Act, Saraswat said. But in July 2006, a petition was filed by the prosecution regarding amendment in the charges under the Act against Khan in the court of Judicial Magistrate for allegedly possessing other arms whose license had expired prior to the poaching incident....
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The Rajasthan High Court on Friday ordered a judicial inquiry into the clashes between police and lawyers that rocked Jaipur over the past two days and directed the city's commissioner of police and eight other police officials to not hold office until its report is submitted. ...
03:18 AM, Mar 09, 2013
Jaipur: Rajasthan High Court on Tuesday ruled in a divorce case that asking an unwilling spouse to compromise and live with the other would make the life of both a "miserable hell." The observation was made by a division bench comprising Justice Dalip Singh and Justice Meena V Gomber while rejecting an appeal filed by Rekha, a law graduate, against the decree of divorce granted by a Family Court in...
09:36 AM, Nov 07, 2012
Jodhpur: A court on Thursday framed charges against former Rajasthan minister Mahipal Maderna and MLA Malkhan Singh Bishnoi for kidnapping, murder and conspiracy among other offences in the Bhanwari Devi case, paving the way for trial. Charges were framed against 16 accused by the Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate (SC/ST Cases) court which retained all the sections against 13 of them that were mentioned in the CBI chargesheet including kidnapping and...
12:33 AM, Oct 05, 2012
Jodhpur: The Rajasthan High Court on Tuesday revised the charges against actor Salman Khan and his colleagues in the 14-year-old black buck killing case, paving the way for start of trial in the case. Disposing of a state government plea against a sessions court order dropping some of the charges against the accused, the High Court has held that Khan will be charged under Section 51 of Wildlife Act and...
10:46 PM, Jul 24, 2012
New Delhi: Rapists should be awarded a minimum sentence of 7 years which can be reduced only in special circumstances, the Supreme Court has ruled ticking off the Rajasthan High Court for reducing the punishment of two convicts in a rape case. "Such an order is violative of the mandatory requirement of law and has defeated the legislative mandate. Deciding the case in such a casual manner reduces the criminal...
07:28 PM, May 22, 2012
Jodhpur: The trial of the sensational Bhanwari Devi abduction and murder case had to be deferred on Saturday to May 14 due to the absence of the magistrate hearing the case. Due to the absence of Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate ACJM (SC/ST Cases), who is holding the trial of the murder of nurse Bhanwari Devi, all the 16 accused, including former Rajasthan minister Mahipal Maderna and Congress MLA Malkhan Singh,...
09:21 PM, May 05, 2012
Jaipur: The Rajasthan High Court on Friday came down heavily on CBI for giving 'differential' treatment to the accused in Dara Singh fake encounter case in which a DIG and a BJP MLA were among those arrested, saying the agency's objectives have been compromised and it was high time it was 'shut down'. "It appears that accused in the same case are being given differential treatment by CBI. You people...
07:44 AM, Apr 07, 2012
New Delhi: The CBI on Monday submitted an affidavit before the Rajasthan High Court on political threats its getting in the Bhanwari Devi case investigation. The court has called for an explanation from the Rajasthan government. The CBI had also filed a plea stating that the accused Malkan Singh and Mahipal Maderna should be moved out of Jodhpur and be kept in separate jails as they were powerful people and...
11:47 AM, Feb 27, 2012
Jodhpur: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Tuesday told the Rajasthan High Court that it was receiving threats and its witnesses in the Bhanwari Devi case were being forced to turn hostile. Agency counsel Panne Singh, during the hearing of the habeas corpus petition filed by Amarchand, husband of Bhanwari Devi, told the court that the CBI had done a fair investigation in this case, and many influential politicians...
02:47 PM, Feb 21, 2012
New Delhi: Rajasthan High Court on Tuesday directed CBI to file an affidavit supporting their petition for closure of the habeas corpus petition filed by Amarchand in the Bhanwari Devi case. The next date for hearing in Bhanwari Devi habeas corpus petition is on February 27. Earlier, The Rajasthan High Court had ruled that the CBI can summon all those required for questioning through a written notice in Bhanwari Devi...
11:18 AM, Feb 21, 2012
Jaipur: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) told the Rajasthan High Court on Tuesday that Bhanwari Devi is dead while filing its report on the Habeas Corpus writ in the case. Four months after she went missing, the investing agency, for the first time, has officially informed the court that she is no more. The next hearing in the case will take place on February 21. Bhanwari Devi's body was...
11:35 AM, Jan 10, 2012
New Delhi: The CBI's custody of key suspect Sahiram Bishnoi ends on Monday. The CBI in its chargesheet claimed that Sahiram had hatched the conspiracy to kill the Dalit nurse at sacked minister, Mahipal Maderna's behest. Bhanwari has been missing for 121 days now. The CBI on Sunday grilled Maderna's wife Leela Maderna and a Congress legislator's son in connection with the disappearance of Devi, sources said. Mahipal was arrested...
11:14 AM, Jan 02, 2012
Jodhpur: Missing nurse Bhanwari Devi's husband Amarchand on Thursday urged the CBI court to keep him in isolation in the jail as he feared persecution by the three other arrested accused. Admitting his request, the court directed the jail administration to keep Amarchand away from the three other accused and sent him to judicial custody till January 3. Shahbuddin, Baldev and Sohan Ram are the other accused who are behind...
03:04 AM, Dec 23, 2011
Ajmer: The Rajasthan High Court on Tuesday dismissed 80-year-old Pakistani virologist Dr Khalil Chishti's plea challenging the life imprisonment awarded to him in a murder case. That sentence had come after a 19 year long trial during which he was virtually under house arrest. The mercy plea of Chisti, who is now lodged in Ajmer jail, is pending with Rajasthan Governor Shivraj Patil. His family had met the Governor of...
04:07 PM, Dec 20, 2011
New Delhi: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) is all set to file a status report on the Bhanwari Devi case in the Rajasthan High Court on Thursday. Sources say the report is likely to state that Bhanwari Devi's husband Amar Chand was involved in her abduction. Sources say the CBI has found a witness in Amar Chand's driver in the Bhanwari Devi case. They say CBI investigation has revealed...
08:56 AM, Dec 15, 2011
Jaipur: The Rajasthan High Court on Wednesday issued a show cause notice to Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi on a petition seeking initiation of criminal defamatory action against him for his reported remarks on country's first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru. Justice Mahesh Chandra Sharma issued the notice on a petition filed by an Indian Youth Congress leader Charmesh Sharma, a resident of Bundi. Both the Chief Judicial Magistrate and the...
11:14 AM, Dec 08, 2011
Jaipur: There is some positive movement in the Bhanwari Devi case with a joint team of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and the Rajasthan Police reportedly finding vital evidence after they reconstructed the crime scene. The evidence unearthed suggests that the auxiliary nurse was negotiating with Shahbuddin, the prime accused in the case. Three suspects have been questioned again. The CBI has also submitted its status report in a ...
11:50 AM, Nov 24, 2011
Jaipur: There is some positive movement in the Bhanwari Devi case with a joint team of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and the Rajasthan Police reportedly finding vital evidence after they reconstructed the crime scene. The evidence unearthed suggests that the auxiliary nurse was negotiating with Shahbuddin, the prime accused in the case. Three suspects have been questioned again. The CBI has also submitted its status report in a...
11:50 AM, Nov 24, 2011
Jodhpur: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) will finally submit its report to the Rajasthan High Court in the Bhanwari Devi case on Thursday. The court had given the CBI time till November 24 to investigate the matter of the missing dalit nurse. The CBI on November 14 approached the court for four weeks time to complete investigations in the case of the missing dalit nurse. While the court granted...
07:40 AM, Nov 24, 2011
