New Delhi: Manoj Sah, the main accused in the rape case of a five-year-old in east Delhi, was on Thursday remanded by a city court to five-day police custody. Additional Sessions Judge Sanjay Garg remanded Manoj, 22, to police custody till April 30 after the probe agency said, "He has to be taken to his native place in Muzzafarpur, Bihar to recover the 'blood-stained clothes' which he was wearing at...
03:31 PM, Apr 25, 2013
New Delhi: The Supreme Court has slammed the police crackdown on women. It pulled up the Delhi Police and sought an explanation from the Commissioner, Neeraj Kumar, on the use of force on young girls who were demonstrating at an East Delhi hospital against the alleged rape of a five-year-old. Taking cognisance of the matter, the apex court has asked Kumar to file an affidavit to explain why a young...
12:55 PM, Apr 25, 2013
Ahmedabad: Gujarat High Court on Wednesday issued notices to 21 convicts who were awarded life term by a designated court in 2012 in the post-Godhra Dipda Darwaza riot case on a petition filed by the SIT seeking condonation of delay in filing appeals against the verdict. A division bench of Justices MR Shah and SH Vora also issued notices to 57 accused whose acquittal by the designated court in the...
02:10 AM, Apr 25, 2013
Kolkata: Chief Justice of India Altamas Kabir on Wednesday said separation of administrators from investigators in the police was one of the necessary steps for speedy trials and faster disposal of criminal cases to reduce the huge pendency in different courts in the country. "There should be a separate wing for investigation only, separate from administrators in police forces. This will facilitate speedy trials and faster disposal of cases," Justice...
01:06 AM, Apr 25, 2013
Mumbai: Bengali actress Paoli Dam, who plays a lawyer in Vikram Bhatt's production 'Ankur Arora Murder Case', says her character in the film is close to life and she enjoyed playing it. Written by Bhatt and directed by Suhail Tatari, 'Ankur Arora Murder Case', a medical thriller, is said to be based on a real-life incident where a boy dies on the operation table due to medical negligence. "It's (character...
07:04 PM, Apr 24, 2013
New Delhi: The JPC meeting to be held in the capital on Thursday to adopt the draft report on 2G scam is set to be a stormy affair with Opposition parties readying to corner the Committee's Chairman PC Chacko over clean chit to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Finance Minister P Chidambaram. The non-Congress members in the 30-member JPC are expected to press for a vote on the controversial draft...
05:36 PM, Apr 24, 2013
Islamabad: The Lahore High Court has cancelled former Pakistan president Pervez Musharraf's interim bail in the Benazir Bhutto assassination case. This comes at a time when Musharraf is under house arrest in another case. Musharraf returned to his farmhouse which has been declared a sub-jail and where he was ordered to serve 14 days in judicial custody by an anti-terrorism court, in Islamabad on Saturday. He had spent the night...
02:12 PM, Apr 24, 2013
New Delhi: In more revelations in the Aarushi-Hemraj murder case, central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) Investigating Officer AGL Kaul has told a Ghaziabad court that he wanted to arrest Aarushi's mother Nupur Talwar, but was stopped by a superior officer. He also mentioned that in his closure report he had clearly stated that both Rajesh Talwar and Nupur Talwar were behind the double murder. Kaul had earlier told the court...
01:51 PM, Apr 24, 2013
New Delhi: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) investigating officer, AGL Kaul, has deposed before a Ghaziabad court in the Aarushi-Hemraj double murder case. Kaul has claimed that it was Rajesh Talwar, Aarushi's father, who killed the duo. He also said Talwar did not intend to kill Aarushi, but she was killed accidentally. Kaul said that Talwar hit Hemraj with a golf club upon discovering him and Aarushi in a...
10:23 AM, Apr 24, 2013
New Delhi: The political debate over the execution of Khalistani terrorist Devender Pal Singh Bhullar remains charged, but there is a new twist, his doctor and one of the judges who ruled in his case, say there is a case to grant him pardon. While the Supreme Court has shot down his plea for death sentence to be commuted, his doctor says his condition is worsening. Bhullar has been undergoing...
09:47 AM, Apr 24, 2013
The Opposition on Tuesday derailed both houses of Parliament with the Bharatiya Janata Party leading the charge against the UPA government. But the BJP seems to have been pushed to a corner over its demand for the PM's resignation. ...
11:26 PM, Apr 23, 2013
New Delhi: The Election Commission on Tuesday reprimanded Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister KS Eshwarappa for violating the Model Code of Conduct in connection with his alleged hate speech and asked him to be cautious in future. The BJP leader who is also the candidate from Shimoga assembly constituency in Karnataka has been booked for allegedly inciting communal feelings and promoting hatred and ill-will between different classes in society in a...
09:28 PM, Apr 23, 2013
Ghaziabad: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Tuesday said that dentist Rajesh Talwar had found his daughter and domestic servant in "objectionable position" and killed them using his golf stick and a sharp-edged weapon. Deposing during cross examination in a special court in Ghaziabad, CBI Additional SP AGL Kaul, who led the second probe team, went into the motive behind the sensational double murder of 14-year-old Aarushi and domestic...
08:59 PM, Apr 23, 2013
New Delhi: After recusal of two judges, a new bench has been constituted in the Supreme Court to hear the petitions of Bharti Cellular Ltd CMD Sunil Bharti Mittal and Essar Group promoter Ravi Ruia in a case of alleged irregularities related to allocation of additional 2G spectrum in 2002. Justice SS Nijjar would be the new judge sitting with Chief Justice Altamas Kabir to hear the matter on Thursday....
08:48 PM, Apr 23, 2013
New Delhi: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has trashed the draft JPC report on the 2G spectrum case and will most likely present its own report on the probe panel's findings, sources said on Tuesday. The sources said that the main opposition party will seek rejection of the draft report. The JPC is expected to meet on Thursday to consider the draft report. Speaking to reporters, BJP leader Yashwant Sinha...
06:46 PM, Apr 23, 2013
New Delhi: The condition of the 5-year-old rape survivor in Delhi is stable and she is still on a semi-solid diet, said doctors treating her at AIIMS. Her fever has subsided and she is more alert and active. S team of psychiatrists are counselling the 5-year old. "She has had a good breakfast. Her fever has come down. And she is afebrile (not feverish) now. Her colostomy is functioning normally,"...
03:40 PM, Apr 23, 2013
Washington: Walmart continued to lobby with the American lawmakers over Indian retail FDI rules during the first quarter of 2013, even as a probe is underway into the global retail giant's US lobbying activities for facilitating its India entry. In its latest lobbying disclosure report filed with the US Senate and the House of Representatives for the quarter ended March 31, 2013, the various lobbying issues of Walmart during the...
03:40 PM, Apr 23, 2013
New Delhi: Intensifying it attack on the government over the Joint Parliamentary Committee's 2G probe report, the BJP on Monday demanded Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's resignation. The demand comes after prime accused A Raja claimed that the Prime Minister was in the loop in 2G spectrum allocation. The former Telecom Minister wants a hearing with the JPC. However, rejecting the demand for the Prime Minister's resignation, Congress leader Kamal Nath...
01:50 PM, Apr 23, 2013
Wellington: New Zealand cricket captain Brendon McCullum has dropped his defamation action against former Test player John Parker after Parker retracted and apologised for comments linking McCullum to the sacking of his predecessor Ross Taylor. McCullum's lawyers on Tuesday issued a statement in which Parker withdrew his claim that McCullum had advance knowledge of coach Mike Hesson's intention to remove Taylor as New Zealand captain. The claim was contained in...
08:29 AM, Apr 23, 2013
New Delhi: The 5-year-old Delhi rape survivor's condition is stable, doctors said, and she is still on a semi-solid diet. Meanwhile, the second accused, Pradeep, was brought to Delhi from Bihar on Monday and is likely to be produced in court on Tuesday. The other accused is in custody till May 4. Protests are also likely to continue on the streets and in Parliament after Delhi Police Commissioner Neeraj Kumar...
07:54 AM, Apr 23, 2013
