A Delhi court on Monday ordered initiation of proceedings to declare as absconders eight accused who could not be traced and questioned by police over the killing of liquor baron Ponty Chadha and his brother Hardeep in November 2012. The eight accused, all belonging to Uttar Pradesh, could be declared proclaimed offenders by the court if they fail to appear before it March 11, said Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Mukesh...
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10:43 AM, Jan 14, 2013
A HuJI militant wanted in the 2001 abduction case of shoe baron Partha Pratim Roy Burman has been arrested by the Special Task Force of Kolkata Police from the Port area. 45-year-old Mijanaur Rehman, wanted in the abduction of Khadim shoe company owner Burman in 2001, was arrested during a raid from the port area late Wednesday, Joint Commissioner of Police (STF) Rajeev Mishra said. ...
09:35 PM, Dec 20, 2012
Investigators believe that Sukhdev Singh Namdhari, arrested in connection with the Ponty Chadha case, had tried to destroy evidence regarding the pistol he allegedly used to fire during the killing of the brothers in a south Delhi farmhouse. ...
08:52 PM, Nov 26, 2012
Lucknow: Barely two days after his gruesome death in a shootout in Delhi, billionaire Ponty Chadha's liquor and other businesses in Uttar Pradesh could be the first casualty of the incident, government officials said on Monday. While admitting that it was a bit "early" to speculate about such an eventuality, officials said that Ponty's death could mean bad news for his Wave Group. "Other than the money that he so...
02:56 AM, Nov 20, 2012
New Delhi: A firing incident has been reported from liquor baron Ponty Chadha's farmhouse in Delhi's Chhattarpur area in which one person has been killed. The person killed is said to be Ponty Chadhas brother while the guard of the farmhouse has been injured. Ponty Chadha, who has several private bodyguards, was present inside the farmhouse when the firing incident took place. But there are no reports of whether he...
02:12 PM, Nov 17, 2012
Los Angeles: A 14-minute film trailer blamed for protest violence in the Middle East will remain on YouTube, after an actress lost her legal challenge to take it down. Cindy Lee Garcia, who appeared in 'Innocence of Muslims,' asked a judge to order the video removed in a Los Angeles County court Thursday. But Superior Court Judge Luis Lavin rejected Garcia's request because she wasn't able to produce any agreement...
06:06 PM, Sep 21, 2012
Hyderabad: Suspended judge K Lakshminarasimha Rao and others, who had mediated with the associates of former Karnataka minister Gali Janardhan Reddy to secure his bail, is learnt to have initially demanded Rs 500 crore from the mining baron. But the deal did not shape up as the then CBI special court judge B Nagamaruthi Sarma refused to grant bail. This was revealed by a chartered accountant-cum-realtor P Krishna Prasad in...
12:08 PM, Aug 29, 2012
Hyderabad: A joint team of investigators from the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) and Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) are learnt to have headed to Bangalore for further probe into the cash-for-bail scam involving mining baron and former Karnataka minister Gali Janardhan Reddy. Though the bail scam is being investigated by the ACB, the anti-corruption watchdog is taking the help of the CBI as the latter had already carried out investigation into...
12:44 PM, Aug 16, 2012
Hyderabad: The Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) is likely to seek a Prisoner Transit (PT) warrant to examine jailed mining baron Gali Janardhan Reddy in the cash-for-bail case. He is currently lodged in a Karnataka jail in the Obulapuram Mining Company (OMC) case. The ACB on Monday filed a 40-page chargesheet in the cash-for-bail deal giving detailed account of the role played by each of the accused. Sources told Express that ACB...
12:10 PM, Aug 14, 2012
Hyderabad: TH Suresh Babu, MLA from Kampli in Karnataka, had promised mining baron Gali Janardhan Reddy that he would, with the assistance of former Karnataka minister Sriramulu, convince judges to grant him bail, and he kept his word. He confessed to Anti-Corruption Bureau officials that he had, along with Janardhan Reddys brothers, Somasekhara Reddy and Dasaratharami Reddy, offered Rs 20 crore as bribe for the purpose. He offered the bribe...
12:45 PM, Aug 01, 2012
New Delhi: Google 'Madagascar' and two of your top three results will not be the country that lies off the coast of southeast Africa, but the DreamWorks Animation movie franchise. The first two installments have earned more than $1.1 billion worldwide. The third, 'Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted,' opens in theaters on June 8, the beginning salvo in a global release strategy that continues throughout the summer. A spinoff movie...
04:04 PM, Jun 07, 2012
New Delhi: The trailer of 'Les Miserables' is out. The film stars Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe, Anne Hathaway, Amanda Seyfried, Eddie Redmayne, Sacha Baron Cohen, Helena Bonham Carter, Samantha Barks, and Aaron Tveit as pivotal characters. Directed by Tom Hooper, the film is based on the novel of the same name by Victor Hugo. ...
02:41 PM, May 30, 2012
The 65th edition of the Cannes film festival kicked off on Wednesday. ...
08:58 AM, May 17, 2012
'The Dictator' Sacha Baron Cohen made a dramatic entry on day one of the Cannes Film Festival. ...
06:36 PM, May 16, 2012
New Delhi: Martin Scorsese's 3D adventure drama 'Hugo' is finally releasing in India. It is based on Brian Selznick's novel by the name 'The Invention of Hugo Cabret'. The film is written by John Logan while Johnny Depp has donned the role of one of the producers of the film. The film stars Asa Butterfield, Chloe Grace Moretz, Ben Kingsley, Sacha Baron Cohen, Helen McCrory, Ray Winstone, Emily Mortimer, Jude...
08:06 PM, May 03, 2012
Sacha Baron Cohen is back as General Aladeen in 'The Dictator', the film will hit the screens on May 11 in the US. ...
08:15 PM, Mar 30, 2012
New Delhi: Slain IPS officer Narender Kumar's wife has demanded CBI probe into her husband's killing, saying it was a murder and not accident. Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chauhan had ordered a judicial probe into the incident. The probe into the incident that sparked an outrage was announced by Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, a day after 30-year-old Narendra Kumar Singh was crushed under the wheels of a...
10:37 PM, Mar 10, 2012
Bhind: A young IPS officer was attacked allegedly by liquor barons, including supporters of former BJP MLA Narendra Singh, in Bhind district when he tried to check illegal sale of liquor on the day when another promising officer was crushed to death allegedly by the mining mafia. The alleged incident occurred on Thursday when some liquor shops located on the Etawah and Lahar Road were selling liquor illegally despite the...
07:33 PM, Mar 09, 2012
