Mumbai: Actor Sanjay Dutt will surrender at TADA court in Mumbai on Wednesday in the 1993 Bombay blasts case. Dutt has withdrawn his application to surrender at Yerwada Jail in Pune which he had filed on Tuesday. Dutt's lawyer informed the court that he wants to withdraw the application. Dutt had expressed fears of being chased by the media and that he faces threat from fundamentalists. Dutt on Tuesday told...
11:29 AM, May 15, 2013
New Delhi: The Bharatiya Janata Party has come out strongly in the defence of Rajasthan leader of Opposition Gulab Chand Kataria. Former Rajasthan chief minister Vasundhara Raje has described the allegations against Kataria as baseless. "Allegations against Kataria are baseless. The party stands behind Kataria and will contest the matter both in courts and politically," she said. The CBI had on Tuesday booked Kataria for murder in its supplementary chargesheet...
10:42 AM, May 15, 2013
Before the 1993 Bombay blasts case, Sanjay Dutt had spent a few months in jail in 1982 for possession of illegal substances. ...
10:27 AM, May 15, 2013
Jaipur: There is a new twist in the Sohrabuddin fake encounter case. Former Rajasthan Home Minister Gulab Chand Kataria has been named in the chargesheet filed by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI). Kataria is the second high profile politician to be named in the case after former Gujarat home minister Amit Shah. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), of course, is crying foul. Kataria, presently leader of the Opposition in...
10:20 AM, May 15, 2013
Huge support for Sanjay Dutt from his friends in the film industry ahead of his surrender in 1993 Bombay blasts case. ...
10:06 AM, May 15, 2013
Mumbai: Four weeks after the Supreme court granted actor Sanjay Dutt time to surrender before the TADA court in the 1993 Bombay blasts case, the deadline ends on Wednesday. But there are doubts over whether he will surrender at the TADA court after Dutt filed an application seeking to surrender directly at Mumbai's Arthur Road prison or Pune's Yerawada jail. Dutt has claimed that he fears being chased by the...
07:33 AM, May 15, 2013
Jaipur: The Bharatiya Janta Party on Tuesday accused the Congress of using the CBI for framing its Leader of Opposition in Rajasthan and former state home minister Gulab Chand Kataria in Soharabuddin Sheikh killing case. Reacting to the Central Bureau of Investigation's (CBI) supplementary charge sheet filed in Mumbai court in which agency named Kataria as an accused in the case, senior BJP leaders said that the Congress wants to...
01:46 AM, May 15, 2013
Ghaziabad: Slamming the "delaying tactics" adopted by Rajesh and Nupur Talwar, a special CBI court on Wednesday rejected their plea for a week's time to move to Allahabad High Court on summoning additional witnesses and gave them two days to testify before it. CBI judge Shyam Lal said it cannot be a "silent spectator by leaving control of the trial to the accused" and asked the dentist couple to appear...
11:33 PM, May 14, 2013
Mumbai: Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt on Tuesday told a special TADA court that he faced threat to his life from fundamentalist groups. Dutt, convicted in 1993 bomb blasts case, urged the court in Mumbai to allow him to surrender before Yerwada jail in Pune instead of giving himself up before the special court. Judge GA Sanap, hearing the actor's application, asked CBI to file a reply and posted the hearing...
05:34 PM, May 14, 2013
The time has come when one of the Bollywood's biggest stars Sanjay Dutt will surrender and returns to jail. While the star will be away from the limelight for about three and a half years; Dutt will continue to entertain his fans on the celluloid over the next few years. Starting with, 'Hum Hai Raahi Car Ke' - a comedy featuring Dutt as a police officer will hit the screens ...
05:25 PM, May 14, 2013
New Delhi: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) is aiming to file its chargesheet in the Railway scam on July 3, sources said on Tuesday. The taped conversations between accused in the scam have been sent for forensic tests and the reports are expected soon, sources said. The CBI sources also said that a questionnaire for ex-Railway Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal was being prepared. The sources said that the CBI...
04:53 PM, May 14, 2013
New Delhi: Modifying a trial court order, the Delhi High Court on Tuesday said the Investigating Officer and the Public Prosecutor can interview the prosecution witnesses "before hand" in the Commonwealth Games-related graft case involving sacked Organising Committee chairman Suresh Kalmadi. Justice Kailash Gambhir said, "The order is modified to the extent that the duo can interview the prosecution witnesses before hand." The court modified the trial court's March 14...
03:16 PM, May 14, 2013
New Delhi: In a twist to the December 16 gangrape case, sources say that the records of the bus in which the incident took place have been destroyed. However, sources said that the Crime Branch is checking if this is a periodic cleansing undertaken by the transport department. Sources add that the Crime Branch has some evidence against the Transport Department officials who gave clearance to the bus owner Dinesh...
12:08 PM, May 14, 2013
New Delhi: The Supreme Court has refused to entertain a petition by a Bollywood production house who sought an extension of time for actor Sanjay Dutt to surrender so that he could finish the shoot for its films. The two films that Dutt is currently shooting for are 'Policegiri' and 'Vasooli'. Dutt is to surrender on May 15 in the 1993 Bombay serial blasts case. Dutt was held guilty by...
11:36 AM, May 14, 2013
Washington: In an unusual move, US Justice Department secretly obtained two months' of telephone records of journalists working for the Associated Press, an action termed by the global news wire as a "massive and unprecedented intrusion" into how it gathers the news. The Justice Department obtained secret records as part of a year-long investigation into the disclosure of classified information about a failed al-Qaeda plot in 2012. The Associated Press,...
10:56 AM, May 14, 2013
Washington: A US court in Wisconsin has reserved its decision in the alleged human rights violation case against Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal after completing hearing in the matter. The district court had taken up a petition filed by New York-based rights body 'Sikh for Justice', which had alleged that Badal committed "grave human rights violations" against the community in India. Attorneys appearing for Badal have argued that he...
10:36 AM, May 14, 2013
Ghaziabad: A special CBI court in Ghaziabad will record the statements of dentist couple Rajesh and Nupur Talwar on Tuesday in connection with the murder case of their daughter Aarushi and domestic help Hemraj. The recording could not take place on Monday as the Talwar couple requested the court to grant them some time to file their petition, seeking summoning of 14 witnesses in the Aarushi-Hemraj murder case trial, in...
08:59 AM, May 14, 2013
Hyderabad: A special court on Monday issued summons to Andhra Pradesh Home Minister P Sabitha Indra Reddy in a disproportionate assets case involving YSR Congress party leader YS Jaganmohan Reddy. Taking cognizance of the fifth charge sheet filed by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), the special court dealing with CBI cases issued summons to Sabitha and 12 others, directing them to appear before the court on June 7. The...
04:30 AM, May 14, 2013
Mumbai: In a judgement that might clear the way for the land development in Tulip Star property, the Bombay High Court has set aside an arbitration award which had held that the agreement between Siddhivinayak Realties and V Hotels stood terminated. Siddhivinayak Realties is a joint venture between Oberoi Realty and DB Realty founders Shahid Balwa and Vinod Goenka, while V Hotels is currently the owners of the Tulip Star...
12:31 AM, May 14, 2013
Ghaziabad: A special CBI court in Ghaziabad will record the statements of dentist couple Rajesh and Nupur Talwar on Tuesday in connection with the murder case of their daughter Aarushi and domestic help Hemraj. The recording could not take place on Monday as the Talwar couple requested the court to grant them some time to file their petition, seeking summoning of 14 witnesses in the Aarushi-Hemraj murder case trial, in...
10:38 PM, May 13, 2013
