Bhopal: Group Captain Amit Gupta of Indian Air Force was arrested on Tuesday in connection with the alleged suicide of former IAF Officer Anjali Gupta, police said. "Amit was arrested under section 306 of the IPC (abetment to suicide) in connection with the suicide committed by Anjali at his residence here on September 11," Additional Superintendent of Police, Rajesh Chandel told PTI. "He will be produced in a court soon,"...
05:48 PM, Sep 13, 2011
Bhopal: A Bhopal police official has admitted that civil and environmental rights activist Shehla Masood's mobile phone was used by the investigators after her murder. But the official claims that the mobile phone was used only to ascertain her identity. The Kohefiza police station in-charge Dharmendra Tomar accepted that police officials made calls from Shehla Masood's phone after she had been murdered, and that senior officers are to be held...
11:18 AM, Sep 09, 2011
Bhopal: RTI activist and Bhopal Team Anna member Shehla Masood was shot dead outside her house a little after 11 am on August 16. When the police reached the spot later at noon, they seized her car and two mobile phones for examination. Phone call records accessed by CNN-IBN show that calls were made from her number six hours after her death. On August 17, a day after her murder,...
09:37 PM, Sep 06, 2011
Bhopal: Bhopal police allegedly tampered with civil and environmental rights activist Shehla Masood's mobile phone, CBI sources have told CNN-IBN. CNN-IBN has accessed Shehla's mobile call details that show that someone from Bhopal police fiddled with her phone as well. The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) while searching Shehla Masood's car for the first time on Monday also exposed instances of shoddy investigations by the police. CBI officials found Shehla's ...
10:58 AM, Sep 06, 2011
Bhopal: Bhopal police allegedly tampered with civil and environmental rights activist Shehla Masood's mobile phone, CBI sources have told CNN-IBN. CNN-IBN has accessed Shehla's mobile call details that show that someone from Bhopal police fiddled with her phone as well. The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) while searching Shehla Masood's car for the first time on Monday also exposed instances of shoddy investigations by the police. CBI officials found Shehla's...
10:58 AM, Sep 06, 2011
Bhopal: Twenty one days after Shehla Masood was murdered in Bhopal, the Central Bureau of Investigation's team is trying to recreate the crime scene. Their biggest source of help, for the moment, is the version of Shehla's family members. After looking at the scene through the eyes of Shehla's family, the sleuths then tried to figure out the direction from which she could have been shot at. They found their...
08:15 PM, Sep 05, 2011
A case has been registered against unknown persons under IPC Section 302 in the murder of the RTI activist from Bhopal. ...
09:44 PM, Sep 03, 2011
New Delhi: The CBI on Saturday registered a case relating to the murder of RTI activist Shehla Masood who was shot dead outside her house in Bhopal. The case has been registered against unnamed persons by Bhopal unit of the agency, CBI sources said in New Delhi. The Centre had received a letter from Madhya Pradesh government requesting for a CBI probe into the murder of Masood in Bhopal. Official...
07:59 PM, Sep 03, 2011
Bhopal: The mystery behind the murder of RTI activist Shehla Masood is deepening by the day. CNN-IBN has accessed letters written by Shehla to the Union Environmental Minister Jayanti Natrajan against illegal diamond mining in Chhatarpur district of Madhya Pradesh. Phone records available also show that someone from Uganda was trying to get in touch with her hours after she was killed. The letter from Shehla to Jayanti Natrajan was...
07:40 AM, Aug 22, 2011
Bhopal: It's been five days since wildlife and RTI activist Shehla Masood was killed in Bhopal. Was it suicide or a murder of a person who took on the mighty and was a key member of the city's Anna Hazare movement? Police are clueless. CNN-IBN accessed a two year old phone conversation between Masood and IPS officer Pawan Shrivastava in which he threatened her over the phone. Shrivastava had threatened...
03:37 PM, Aug 20, 2011
Bhopal: Sultan Masood, the father of slain RTI activist Shehla Masood, said on Thursday that he did not expect justice for his daughter, because as a lower-middle class person, he was powerless to have an effective probe. He also alleged that in January this year, Shehla had filed a complaint with the Lokayukta that she feared threat to life from IPS officer Pawan Shrivastava. The way the police were handling...
06:59 PM, Aug 18, 2011
Bhopal: Union Minister Jairam Ramesh on Wednesday wrote to the Madhya Pradesh state urging them to probe the murder of RTI activist Shehla Masood thoroughly, even as CNN-IBN accessed a letter Masood herself wrote to the state government, saying that she had received death threats. The question is if the Bhopal police ignore the clear threats. Shehla Masood was found murdered outside her residence just as she was leaving for...
09:47 PM, Aug 17, 2011
Bhopal: In a new twist to the murder of RTI activist Shehla Masood, who was shot dead on Tuesday, CNN-IBN on Wednesday accessed a letter which showed, Masood was being threatened by an IPS officer. Five teams have been set up in Bhopal to investigate the murder of the RTI activist who was shot dead while on her way to a protest supporting anti-corruption activist Anna Hazare. There have been...
09:22 AM, Aug 17, 2011
Bhopal: A city-based woman RTI activist was on Tuesday shot dead allegedly by an unidentified man in front of her residence in the posh Koh-e-Fiza locality, police said. "Shehla Masood was shot dead around 11 AM when she was sitting in her car," Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Adarsh Katiyar said. The motive and details of the killing are awaited, he said, adding a hunt has been launched to nab...
01:46 PM, Aug 16, 2011
Bhopal: Bhopal Memorial Hospital and Research Centre has been carrying out clinical trials on gas victims. CNN-IBN has accessed documents that show that at least 80 per cent of the patients on whom trials were conducted, were victims of the gas tragedy. What was suspected and alleged so far is confirmed now. The multi-specialty hospital set up for gas victims conducted unethical drug trials on 279 patients of whom 215...
08:05 AM, Aug 07, 2011
New Delhi: While Delhi prepares for its own version of the SlutWalk, Bhopal has taken it a step ahead and actually put it to action. The city launched its own SlutWalk " Besharmi Morcha Bhopal " The PrideStride for Women - on July 17th, with an enthusiastic contingent of around hundred fifty participants on its maiden walk that took placed on a rain washed Sunday afternoon from Nutan College to...
03:11 PM, Jul 18, 2011
Bhopal: A group of girls today staged a 'SlutWalk' or what is locally known as 'Besharmi Morcha' here today to protest against those who claim that women suffer eve teasing and sexual harassment because they dress up provocatively. The march was thinly attended and girls who participated in it were seen carrying placards protesting against eve teasing and sexual harassment. The desi version of the 'SlutWalk' was organised by law...
05:39 PM, Jul 17, 2011
Bhopal: Opposing the Jabalpur High Court's directive to the state government to shift the Union Carbide toxic waste to Nagpur, Bhopal gas victims have now pledged that they will not allow a repeat of Bhopal anywhere else in the country. The Bhopal victims are in touch with concerned citizens from Nagpur, who are planning to approach the Maharashtra high Court against this order. The 346 tones of toxic waste lying...
06:41 PM, Jul 16, 2011
Bhopal: The Enviroment Ministry has rapped the Madhya Pradesh Government for not taking clearance before the construction of a Medical College by the Chirayu Foundation near the Bhoj lake in Bhopal. The lake is the main source of water and is considered a lifeline of Bhopal. The State Expert Appraisal Committee in its inspection of the site on February 23, 2010, acknowledged that, "construction of the project started without environment...
09:39 AM, Jul 12, 2011
