New York: Indian-American corporate leader Rajat Gupta has been warned by a US judge that he cannot beat insider trading charges by trumpeting his history of philanthropy any more than Mother Teresa could use her missionary work to fend off bank robbery charges. "If Mother Teresa were charged with bank robbery, the jury would still have to determine whether or not she committed a bank robbery," US District Judge Jed...
06:35 PM, May 18, 2012
New Delhi: A US court will begin hearing the 1984 anti-Sikh riots case against the Congress on Tuesday. A Sikh rights group had sought a default judgment against the party for its failure to defend charges of conspiracy and organising the riots. The Congress party had opposed the charges. Lawyers from international law firm 'Jones Day', which is representing the Congress in a court in New York, opposed the entry...
10:07 AM, May 01, 2012
New Delhi: Hurriyat Conference (G) leader Syed Geelani on Saturday called for a bandh in Kashmir against the two-year jail term handed down to fellow separatist Ghulam Nabi Fai by a US court. Fai was charged with lobbying in the US government to affect American policy on Kashmir. He has also been accused of accepting money from the Pakistani intelligence agency, ISI, for the lobby work. ...
09:41 AM, Apr 07, 2012
New York: An Indian maid, who had accused her former employer, an IFS officer, and her husband of harassment and "slavery", has received a favourable ruling from a US court, which approved her petition that she be awarded $ 1.5 million as compensation by the couple. In his order, US District Judge Victor Marrero "adopted in entirety" the report of US Magistrate Judge Frank Maas in which Maas had recommended...
06:03 PM, Mar 21, 2012
New York: A US judge's recommendation that an Indian diplomat and her husband, accused of "slavery" by their Indian maid should pay nearly $1.5 million as damages is likely to become the final ruling of the court as no objection has been filed in the case till now. US Magistrate Judge Frank Maas had said in a February 22 recommendation filed with Judge Victor Marrero of the US District Court...
06:34 PM, Mar 08, 2012
New York: A US court has convicted three members of an Indian family here on charges of sexually abusing their daughter-in-law who came to America after an arranged marriage and was threatened to work as a slave. Rockland County District Attorney Thomas Zugibe said Vishal Jagota, 34, his mother Parveen Jagota, 57 and sister Rajani Jagota, 31 were found guilty after a bench trial of labour trafficking and assault charges...
12:26 PM, Feb 28, 2012
New York: A US court is set to hear March 15 a plea for "default judgment" against India's Congress party for failing to defend charges of conspiring, aiding, abetting, organizing anti-Sikh riots in November 1984. The case will be heard by Judge Robert W Sweet of the US Federal Court in New York, according to Sikhs for Justice (SFJ), a US based community organisation, which filed a motion before the...
10:36 AM, Feb 19, 2012
Mumbai: Share prices of Ranbaxy tumbled nearly 7 per cent in the morning trade on Friday after a consent decree was filed in a United States court that requires the drug firm to make fundamental changes at its plants in the US and India. The US Justice Department filed a "ground-breaking" consent decree in court on Thursday, mandating Indian drug-maker Ranbaxy to adhere to US manufacturing standards and ensure integrity...
12:01 PM, Jan 27, 2012
New York: A US federal court has reserved judgment on Indian Urban Development Minister Kamal Nath's claim for diplomatic immunity in a case over his alleged role in the November 1984 anti-Sikh riots. Judge Robert W Sweet of the US Federal Court for the Southern District of New York reserved his judgement after hearing arguments for about 45 minutes in the case filed by Sikhs for Justice (SFJ), a US...
12:24 PM, Sep 22, 2011
Mumbai: The verdict of a US court holding Pakistani-Canadian Tahawwur Rana not guilty for the Mumbai terror attacks would not effect the legal proceedings against terrorist Ajmal Kasab and also the charge against LeT that they had masterminded the strikes, special public prosecutor Ujjwal Nikam said on Friday. "However, it pains me to hear how Rana was exonerated from criminal conspiracy of 26/11 terror attack particularly when co-accused David Headley's...
02:45 PM, Jun 10, 2011
Lahore: The Pakistan government on Monday informed a court that it could not defend Jamaat-ud-Dawah Chief Hafiz Muhammad Saeed in a US lawsuit filed by relatives of two Jewish victims of the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks. Deputy Attorney General Naseem Kashmiri, in a written reply submitted on behalf of Foreign Ministry to Justice Umar Ata Bandial of the Lahore High Court, said, "The government is defending the ISI before the...
09:29 PM, May 30, 2011
London: WikiLeaks has demanded that Google and Facebook reveal the contents of any US subpoenas they may have received, a media report said Saturday. The demand came after it emerged that a US court had ordered Twitter to hand over details of accounts on the micro-blogging site by five people associated with the group, including Julian Assange. Amid strong evidence that a US grand jury has begun a wide-ranging trawl...
10:48 AM, Jan 09, 2011
Chicago: 26/11 suspect Tahawwur Rana's lawyer is set to present his case in a US court on Monday. Rana is a Pakistani-American terror suspect and a co-accused in the Mumbai attacks. The defence, on the other hand will present its case on October 18. At a status hearing for Rana at the Dirksen Federal Courthouse last month, the court had set October 11 as the date for the government to...
09:12 AM, Oct 11, 2010
Vikram Buddhi has been in a US federal prison since 2006. ...
01:47 AM, Dec 11, 2009
The federal prosecutors said they need more time to complete the investigation. ...
08:43 AM, Nov 18, 2009
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