
New Delhi: After a week's break, the trial in the 2G spectrum allocation scam case, involving former Telecom Minister A Raja, DMK MP Kanimozhi and corporate honchos as accused, will resume on Monday in a Delhi court. The day-to-day trial in the special court had to be adjourned for a week due to winter break and would continue from Monday with Raja questioning his former aide Aseervatham Achary, a key...

09:47 AM, Jan 01, 2012

Bangalore: A Special Court on Wednesday posted to August 1, the hearing of two applications filed by Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa, seeking exemption from personal appearance and that she be allowed to make a written submission in the disproportionate case against her. She had also sought provision of video conferencing if both of these were not possible. When the matter came up before Special Court Judge BM Mallikarjunaiah, he...

04:51 PM, Jul 27, 2011

New Delhi: Former Telecom Minister and 2G accused A Raja on Monday dragged in the Prime Minister and then finance minister Chidambaram names while defending himself in court. Defending himself before a special CBI court for the first time, Raja said that the Prime Minister was aware of the sale of equity by Swan and Unitech to foreign companies. Raja said that Finance Minister, in the presence of the PM,...

11:03 AM, Jul 25, 2011

New Delhi: Minutes after the Supreme Court dismissed the bail plea of DMK MP Kanimozhi, an accused in 2G scam case, the three other accused, including Swan Telecom promoter Shahid Usman Balwa, withdrew their pleas for similar relief from the Delhi High Court. "In view of the apex court's order granting liberty to the accused to move fresh bail plea before the special CBI court, I would not like to...

06:07 PM, Jun 20, 2011

New Delhi: A court exclusively set up for the 2G Spectrum scam on Saturday took cognizance of the chargesheet filed by CBI against former Telecom Minister A Raja and eight others saying "there is enough incriminating material to proceed against the accused persons". "I have carefully gone through the FIR, chargesheet, statements of witnesses and related documents and on the perusal of the record, I am satisfied that there is...

05:38 PM, Apr 02, 2011

New Delhi: A special court is expected to announce the quantum of punishment for the 31 people convicted in the 2002 Godhra train burning case on Tuesday. They were found guilty of criminal conspiracy and murder last Tuesday. The prosecution has sought death penalty for all those convicted. The court had also acquitted 63 others in the case including the key conspirator Maulvi Hussain Umarji. Fifty-nine people were killed in...

07:00 AM, Mar 01, 2011

New Delhi: The verdict in the Nithari killings case is expected to be announced on Wednesday. A special CBI court will deliver the verdict in the case of rape and murder of a 12-year-old girl in which Moninder Singh Pandher and his domestic help Surender Koli are the prime accused. Koli was awarded death sentence by the special court in three of 19 cases filed in connection with the rape...

09:18 AM, Dec 22, 2010

Kochi: Forty years after the brutal killing of Naxal leader, A Varghese, CBI Special Court here on Wednesday convicted former IGP K Lakshmana in the case while acquitting former DGP P Vijayan giving him the benefit of doubt. Varghese was gunned downed by police in cold blood in the Thiruvenlli forests in Kerala's Wayanad district on February 18, 1970 and it was described as 'encounter' death. Delivering the judgment, CBI...

04:55 PM, Oct 27, 2010

Ahmedabad: In more embarrassment for former Gujarat minister Amit Shah, a special court on Friday rejected his bail application saying he may misuse his political powers to hamper investigation in the Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter case, in which he is an accused. Special CBI Judge G K Upadhyaya passed the order after hearing the bail plea. The court observed that there is eye-catching evidence in the form of statements recorded...

06:24 PM, Oct 08, 2010

Opposition asks how can there be separate courts for the rich and poor. ...

09:35 AM, Feb 15, 2010

Kasab's lawyer intervened asking the court to continue with the trial. ...

03:16 PM, Aug 07, 2009

Prme accused Kasab had urged for Urdu translation of chargesheet. ...

04:26 PM, Apr 22, 2009

The special courts will deal with cases mentioned in the report 1992- 93 Mumbai riots. ...

07:25 PM, Aug 13, 2007

The special court hearing the Bhagalpur riots has found 14 people guilty for the Logai killings. ...

09:52 PM, Jun 18, 2007

Government will set up a special court for 7/11 to speed up justice for the kin of those who died in the attack. ...

12:35 PM, Nov 08, 2006