
New Delhi: The BJP was not in favour of toppling a stable (UPA) government but it could go due to its own internal contradictions, party president Rajnath Singh said on Tuesday. "The BJP doesn't want to destabilise a stable government but we would not be responsible if it goes due to its internal contradictions. It is a loss to exchequer if there are frequent polls," Rajnath Singh told a TV...

06:02 AM, Apr 10, 2013

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11:24 PM, Apr 09, 2013

The Delhi Police on Tuesday claimed to have cracked the case, arresting the BSP leader's younger son and family lawyer for the murder. ...

09:25 PM, Apr 09, 2013

Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi continued his offensive against the UPA government on Tuesday. ...

09:24 PM, Apr 09, 2013

New Delhi: The Delhi Police on Tuesday said that the son of murdered BSP leader Deepak Bhardwaj had admitted that he was dissatisfied with his father's business deals and had hatched a conspiracy with his family lawyer Baljeet Singh Sehrawat and self-styled godman Swami Prathibhanand to kill him. According to the police, the deal struck between Nitish Bhardwaj and the lawyer was for Rs 5 crore, out of which Rs...

04:41 PM, Apr 09, 2013

New Delhi: In a possible breakthrough in the murder of Bahujan Samaj party leader and real estate tycoon Deepak Bhardwaj, the police have arrested his son Nitesh and two others for conspiracy of murder. Deepak Bhardwaj's wife and son were among those being questioned over the past 10 days over his murder and the police had not ruled out a family dispute in the case. The two others arrested are...

01:19 PM, Apr 09, 2013

New Delhi: Spiritual leader Swami Pratibhanand, a suspect in the murder of BSP leader and realtor Deepak Bhardwaj in Delhi, is changing hideouts to avoid arrest, police on Monday said, adding that plots to kill the politician were also made in January and March 2013. A Delhi Police officer said that Pratibhanand, 48, has changed his hideouts in at least seven cities of separate states since March 26, 2013 murder...

05:28 AM, Apr 09, 2013

New Delhi: Investigations into the killing of Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) leader Deepak Bhardwaj has revealed that one of the absconding accused and self-styled godman Pratibhanand, who is suspected to have given the murder contract to the shooters, has been changing his appearance and getup to escape and hide from Delhi Police. According to sources, Pratibhanand is also moving from one place to another and changing his mobile number frequently...

01:43 PM, Apr 08, 2013

New Delhi: Continuing with its investigation in the murder case of slain Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) leader Deepak Bhardwaj, the Delhi Police on Sunday restricted his family from leaving Delhi without its permission. The police had earlier questioned Bhardwaj's wife Ramesh Kumari, their sons and his staff in connection with the case. Police suspect a land dispute could be the reason behind the murder of the BSP leader, who was...

04:37 PM, Apr 07, 2013

New Delhi: BSP supremo Mayawati has said that conditions signal early elections in the country. Responding to questions, the former UP chief minister said though she does not favour early polls, the current political conditions suggest the elections could be held early. The BSP Chief, whose party gives outside support to the UPA government, was responding to a question. "No matter when the elections are held, my party is ready....

02:11 PM, Apr 07, 2013

New Delhi: Delhi Police on Saturday released photographs of a spiritual guru, who is suspected to have given money to shooters, to kill local BSP leader Deepak Bhardwaj. The photographs of Machendranath alias Pratibhanand were released late in the evening. Police said he hails from Beed in Maharashtra and is 48 years old. Purushottam Rana and Sunil Mann, the alleged shooters, had told police that the spiritual guru had given...

03:10 AM, Apr 07, 2013

Indore: A yoga teacher has been detained by Delhi Crime Branch in connection with the murder of BSP leader Deepak Bhardwaj, officials said in Indore. Avinash Shastri, said to be the yoga trainer of a "spiritual guru," suspected to be behind Bhardwaj's murder allegedly over a land dispute, was detained from Umanand Parmarthic Nyas Ashram near the aerodrome in Indore on Thursday night, police said. Shastri was taken into custody...

03:21 PM, Apr 05, 2013

New Delhi: A land dispute is suspected to be behind the murder of BSP leader and business tycoon Deepak Bhardwaj in New Delhi March 26, 2013, a police source said on Wednesday. The realtor might have been killed in connection with a 30 acre piece of land in Haryana's Bahadurgarh area, the source said. Investigators have launched a hunt for spiritual leader Swami Pratimanand with whom Bhardwaj is believed to...

04:30 AM, Apr 04, 2013

Delhi Police have launched a manhunt in Haryana and Uttarakhand for a "spiritual guru" who is suspected to be behind the murder of local BSP leader Deepak Bhardwaj allegedly over a land dispute. Investigators are also on the look out for another associate, believed to be a commercial pilot, of the spiritual guru who is said to have approached alleged shooters -- Purushottam Rana and Sunil Mann -- with the...

11:08 PM, Apr 03, 2013

The police may have identified the mastermind of the fatal shooting of Bahujan Samaj Party leader and real estate tycoon Deepak Bhardwaj in his Delhi farmhouse. Sources have told CNN-IBN that the interrogation of the suspects has led to the name of a self-styled godman or Swami. ...

09:23 AM, Apr 03, 2013

Investigators have identified the "spiritual guru" who is suspected to have hired shooters for Rs 50 lakh to Rs one crore to kill local BSP leader Deepak Bhardwaj. Sources said they have zeroed in on the spiritual guru following investigations into the details provided by the two alleged sharpshooters Sunil Mann and Purushottam Rana. ...

04:47 AM, Apr 03, 2013

The four accused arrested in the murder of Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) leader and real estate tycoon Deepak Bhardwaj were produced in court on Tuesday. Three of them were sent to 10-day police custody. ...

03:26 PM, Apr 02, 2013

The prosecution in the murder case of real estate tycoon and Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) Deepak Bhardwaj on Tuesday asked for a Test Identification Parade for three of the accused. CNN-IBN has learnt the trio have refused to volunteer for the line-up test. ...

01:14 PM, Apr 02, 2013

The mystery behind billionaire Bahujan Samaj Party leader and real estate tycoon Deepak Bhardwaj's murder is yet to resolved. After arresting the two men who allegedly shot dead Bhardwaj, the richest candidate in the 2009 Lok Sabha polls from Delhi with declared assets of over Rs 600 crore, at his farmhouse in Delhi on March 26 in his 35-acre farmhouse in south Delhi's Rajokri, Delhi Police is searching for a...

12:50 PM, Apr 02, 2013

A week after the murder of real estate tycoon and Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) leader Deepak Bhardwaj, the Delhi Police nabbed the alleged contract killers and two others on Monday. They will be produced in court on Tuesday, but the police continues to evade the big questions about the motive and the mastermind behind the murder. ...

08:30 AM, Apr 02, 2013