New Delhi: The elder sister of Bhanwari Devi on Monday moved the Supreme Court seeking the transfer of the murder case out of Rajasthan, claiming that the witnesses were being threatened. Though she did not name anyone, but alleged that the case will not get a fair hearing in Rajasthan.
After hearing the petition, the apex court issued notice to the CBI and the Rajasthan government.
Earlier, accused Kailash Jakhar, who had escaped from the High Court premises in Jodhpur after armed assailants opened fire to help him flee, was on Monday arrested.
On a tip off, police arrested Jakhar from a small hamlet surrounded by sand dunes near Sujangarh in Churu district at about 3 am, Jodhpur Police Commissioner Bhupendra Kumar Dak said....
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01:33 PM, Jul 02, 2012
Jodhpur: Bhanwari Devi abduction and murder case accused Kailash Jakhar, who had escaped from the High Court premises in Jodhpur after armed assailants opened fire to help him flee, was on Monday arrested. On a tip off, police arrested Jakhar from a small hamlet surrounded by sand dunes near Sujangarh in Churu district at about 3 am, Jodhpur Police Commissioner Bhupendra Kumar Dak said. "He is currently under the custody...
11:33 AM, Jul 02, 2012
Jaipur: Rajasthan DGP Harish Meena on Thursday announced a cash reward of Rs 50,000 for information leading to the arrest of Kailash Jakhar, an accused in Bhanwari Devi abduction and murder case. Jakhar had on June 14 escaped from police custody from a Jodhpur court premises where he was taken from jail for trial in some other case. Several Police teams had raided many places in search of him but...
10:01 PM, Jun 21, 2012
New Delhi: Making some headway in the Bhanwari Devi murder case, the CBI has been told by the FBI that the bones recovered from a canal in Rajasthan were of the auxiliary nurse. Official sources said the American agency has conveyed to the CBI that the bones, which included the teeth and parts of skull, that were found from a canal in Jodhpur earlier this year, were that of 36-year-old...
11:46 PM, Jun 20, 2012
Jodhpur: The trial of former Rajasthan minister Mahipal Maderna, Congress legislator Malkhan Singh Bishnoi and 14 others - accused in the case of nurse Bhanwari Devi's kidnap and murder in September last year - commenced in a court on Monday, a lawyer said. The trial began in the additional chief judicial magistrate's court for the Scheduled Tribes and the Scheduled Castes cases. The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in its...
11:27 AM, May 15, 2012
Jodhpur: The Rajasthan High Court on Thursday issued show-cause notices to Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) director and other agency officers on allegations of harassment by a local politician during investigation into the case of missing nurse Bhanwari Devi, a lawyer said. The notices were issued to CBI director, a deputy inspector general of police (DIG), a superintendent of police (SP) and an inspector-rank officer, the lawyer added. Shabhu Singh...
01:05 AM, Apr 20, 2012
Jaipur: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) filed another chargesheet in a Jodhpur court in the Bhanwari Devi case on Wednesday. The investigating agency has named 13 people in the 97-page chargesheet including sacked Rajasthan minister Mahipal Singh Maderna and Congress MLA Malkhan Singh. Four others also named in the chargesheet as absconder. Bhanwari Devi's husband Amarchand has also been accused of conspiracy and chargesheeted. The accused named in the...
04:52 PM, Feb 29, 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
Jodhpur: The judicial custody of Congress MLA Malkhan Singh Bishnoi and four others, arrested in the Bhanwari Devi case, ends on Monday. The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) is expected to file its final report in the case later this week. The CBI has jointly questioned six of the accused, including Bhanwari Devi's husband Amarchand, in Jodhpur Central Jail, to cross-check their statements on the conspiracy of abduction and elimination...
11:38 AM, Jan 30, 2012
Jodhpur: A local court on Saturday extended the CBI custody of accused Malkhan Singh Bishnoi till January two in the Bhanwari Devi abduction case. It also remanded Om Prakash Bishnoi, arrested on Friday in Barmer district in connection with the case, in the CBI custody till January four. Om is the brother of absconding suspect Bishna Ram Bishnoi. Seeking extension of the remand, CBI counsel SS Yadav told the court...
10:26 PM, Dec 31, 2011
Jodhpur: In a major development in the Bhanwari Devi missing case, police on Friday night arrested the brother of Bishna Ram Bishnoi, an absconder in the case with a cash reward of Rs 5 lakh on his head. Om Prakash Bishnoi was caught on Friday night while attempting to flee in a truck at Gudha Malani in Barmer district, a police official said, adding that Bishna Ram's brother was initially...
08:27 AM, Dec 31, 2011
Jodhpur: A top doctor of a hospital on Tuesday said the CBI had given him an application to send a team of experts for conducting the DNA test on Congress MLA Malkhan Singh Bishnoi and Gungun, the youngest daughter of Bhanwari Devi. "We sent a team of experts, which took the blood samples of Gungun and Malkhan. The samples have been kept by CBI, which will be sending it to...
11:02 PM, Dec 27, 2011
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
Jodhpur: Congress MLA Malkhan Singh Bishnoi, a key suspect in the Bhanwari Devi abduction case, has been sent to police custody till December 28. Bishnoi was arrested by the CBI on Monday after he surfaced for questioning. The CBI has also been questioning his family members for last few days as Bishnoi representing Luni constituency in the Rajasthan Assembly, was evading repeated summons issued by the agency for questioning. The...
05:07 PM, Dec 20, 2011
Jodhpur: Congress MLA Malkhan Singh Bishnoi, who was evading interrogation for last few days, was arrested by the CBI in connection with the Bhanwari Devi abduction case after he surfaced for questioning on Monday. The CBI has been questioning his family members for last few days as Bishnoi representing Luni constituency in the Rajasthan Assembly, was evading repeated summons issued by the agency for questioning. The MLA, who appeared at...
09:22 PM, Dec 19, 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 Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) raided Congress MLA Malkhan Singh Bishnoi's Jodhpur residence on Wednesday in connection with the Bhanwari Devi case. The CBI had on Tuesday pasted a notice outside the residence of Bishnoi, who represents the Luni constituency in Rajasthan Assembly, warning him to appear before the agency at 11 am on December 14 for answering questions related to the missing case of Bhanwari Devi or...
11:57 AM, Dec 14, 2011
Jodhpur: The Rajasthan High Court on Monday sent former Rajasthan water resources minister and suspended Congress member Mahipal Maderna and nd his rival Malkhan Singh's brother Parasram Bishnoi to judicial custody till December 24. The two are arrested in connection with the case of missing nurse Bhanwari Devi. The CBI had summoned Congress MLA Malkhan Singh Bishnoi once again on Monday after he failed to appear before it on Saturday...
11:02 AM, Dec 12, 2011
