Ghaziabad: In the Aarushi-Hemraj double murder case, defence counsel pleaded before a special court in Ghaziabad on Thursday to summon former CBI joint director Arun Kumar as witness. Defence counsel Manoj Shishodia said he submitted an application before Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) Special Judge S Lal to summon 13 people, including Arun Kumar, for testimony. The court reserved the order on the application for Friday. "Of the 13 witnesses...
05:40 AM, May 03, 2013
New Delhi: Against the backdrop of Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar's inability to remove him, JPC chairman PC Chacko on Thursday contacted the committee members to hold a meeting before May 10 when its term ends and is learnt to be ready to extend the tenure of the panel to adopt the controversial draft report on 2G spectrum scam. Chacko has received a go-ahead from the Congress high command to...
09:50 PM, May 02, 2013
The Supreme Court on Wednesday commuted the death sentence of murder convict Mahendra Nath Das. The sentence has been commuted to life on the grounds of delay in execution. ...
10:42 PM, May 01, 2013
Ranchi: Jharkhand High Court on Wednesday extended till May 8 the stay order given against the arrest of industrialist Pawan Kumar Dhoot, who as an independent candidate is accused in the horse trading issue during 2012 Rajya Sabha polls. After hearing petitions of Dhoot and another industrialist Sunil Maheswari, the single bench of Justice RR Prasad extended the stay against their arrest, but asked them to surrender to the CBI...
10:10 PM, May 01, 2013
New Delhi: Fifteen opposition members of JPC on 2G spectrum scam on Wednesday wrote to the committee secretariat rejecting the panel's draft report in toto, setting the stage for worsening of the confrontation with the government on the issue. The 15 members, who had met Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar last week to express "no-confidence" in panel chief PC Chacko, wrote separate letters on Wednesday stating that they are rejecting...
09:35 PM, May 01, 2013
New Delhi: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Wednesday moved its teams to Uttar Pradesh on a tip off to arrest former Joint Commissioner of Police PP Pande. CBI sources said that he was key to unfolding the mystery surrounding the Ishrat Jahan case. The teams will interrogate Pande's family and friends to know about his whereabouts, the sources said. The CBI had recently accused the Gujarat government and...
05:48 PM, May 01, 2013
Sajjan Kumar's acquittal in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots case has left those, who lost their kins in the massacre, aggrieved. HS Phoolka, who has been spearheading the legal battle for the riot victims, joined IBNLive readers in an interaction on the future of the case as they prepare to take the matter to higher courts. Q. Mr Phoolka, why is it that the police is not able to build a...
05:13 PM, May 01, 2013
New Delhi: The Supreme Court has commuted the death sentence of Assam murder convict Mahendra Nath Das to life sentence. MN Das was convicted in two murder cases in Assam in 1997. The court has commuted the death penalty on the grounds of delay in execution. Mahendra Nath Das killed a man, Rajen Das, in Guwahati in 1990 and surrendered. On April 24, 1996, Mahendra Nath Das beheaded Harakanta Das...
12:23 PM, May 01, 2013
Bhubaneswar: A day after the state government giving the go-ahead, the Economic Offence Wing (EOW) of Crime branch of Odisha Police on Tuesday registered a criminal case against the Saradha Group which allegedly duped gullible investors in Balasore and Puri districts. A team of the EOW on Tuesday rushed to Balasore and recorded statements of certain depositors at the district police headquarters in the Northen Odisha town. "We have registered...
10:55 PM, Apr 30, 2013
Ghaziabad: Dentist couple Rajesh and Nupur Talwar on Tuesday approached a special CBI court here and sought deposition as court witness of former CBI Joint Director Arun Kumar, whose investigation had claimed that their daughter Aarushi and domestic help Hemraj were murdered by servants. The Talwars' counsel moved an application before special judge Shyam Lal requesting for summoning of Kumar as court witness. A separate request for summoning 12 others...
09:09 PM, Apr 30, 2013
Ujjain: Congress General Secretary Digvijaya Singh and party MP Prem Chand Guddu were on Tuesday granted bail by a local court in connection with a case filed against them and others for allegedly thrashing BJP youth wing workers in Ujjain in 2011. The two appeared in the court and on producing a surety of Rs 25,000 each, Additional Sessions Judge Dipesh Tiwari granted them bail. On April 3, the Sessions...
03:36 PM, Apr 30, 2013
Islamabad: Former military ruler Pervez Musharraf was on Tuesday sent to judicial custody for a fortnight by a Pakistani anti-terrorism court in the Benazir Bhutto assassination case. The court in Rawalpindi had said at the last hearing that Musharraf should be produced for Tuesday's hearing but he was not presented before the judge for security reasons, said chief prosecutor Chaudhry Zulfiqar Ali of the Federal Investigation Agency. Though Musharraf was...
11:34 AM, Apr 30, 2013
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court is set to hear charges in the Arun Jaitley call-records case involving the senior BJP leader on Tuesday. In the last hearing, the Delhi Police had filed a chargesheet against private detective Anurag Singh, a police constable Arvind Dabbas and two other private detectives, currently in judicial custody. The people named in the report are currently in judicial custody. Arvind Dabas was arrested in...
09:08 AM, Apr 30, 2013
New Delhi: Emissions from coal plants resulted in 80,000 to 1,15,000 premature deaths and more than 20 million asthma cases in 2011-12 in the country, the Lok Sabha was informed on Monday. According to a report titled 'Coal Kills - An assessment of death and disease caused by India's dirtiest energy source', the coal-based plants quantified additional health impacts, such as hundreds of thousands of heart attacks. The estimated monetary...
05:35 AM, Apr 30, 2013
Mumbai: Actor Salman Khan was on Monday exempted from appearance in the 2002 hit-and-run case by a sessions court following request by his counsel Ashok Mundargi. Sessions judge UB Hejib adjourned the matter to May 8, 2013. On that day, the court would also hear the 47-year-old actor's appeal against the order of the magistrate invoking charge of 'culpable homicide not amounting to murder' (section 304 part II IPC) in...
01:24 AM, Apr 30, 2013
Parliament failed to transact normal business for sixth consecutive day on Monday amid protests on the coalgate issue. ...
10:03 PM, Apr 29, 2013
Hyderabad: A special CBI court on Monday extended till May 13 the judicial remand of YSR Congress president YS Jagan Mohan Reddy and others accused in connection with alleged quid-pro-quo deals in the assets case. Jagan and the others accused, including ex-minister Mopidevi Venkata Ramana Rao, industrialist Nimmagadda Prasada and senior bureaucrat KV Brahmananda Reddy (all accused in Vanpic aspect of the Jagan assets case), who are currently lodged in...
05:21 PM, Apr 29, 2013
Gandhinagar: In what is clearly a glaring case of lapse of duty, suspended policeman Rajkumar Pandian, who is facing trial in the fake encounters of Sohrabuddin Sheikh and Tulsiram Prajapati, spend the night on Sunday at his home in Ahmedabad. This even as he is lodged in a Mumbai jail and was brought to Ahmedabad to be produced in court for a hearing. Escorted by the Maharashtra Police, Pandian was...
04:25 PM, Apr 29, 2013
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday issued notice to the Central Bureau of India (CBI) seeking its response on the bail plea of YSR Congress leader Jagan Mohan Reddy in a disproportionate assets case. A bench headed by Justice P Sathasivam asked the agency to file its response and posted the case for hearing on May 6. Jagan Mohan has moved the apex court challenging the Andhra Pradesh High...
02:43 PM, Apr 29, 2013
Mumbai: Actor Salman Khan's plea in the 2002 hit-and-run case is up for a hearing at the Sessions Court in Mumbai. His petition challenging the Magistrate court's order which said there is enough evidence against the actor will come up for hearing on Monday. In September 2002, Salman's SUV had run over people sleeping on a pavement in suburban Bandra, killing one and seriously injuring four others. ...
01:42 PM, Apr 29, 2013
