The Delhi Police on Thursday filed the chargesheet in the brutal gangrape and murder case of the 23-year-old paramedical student at the Saket court. Following the move, the Saket court fixed January 5 for cognisance of offence. The chargesheet, which runs into 1000 pages, has been filed against five accused, who have been charged with murder, rape and abduction among other charges. The trial in the case will be in-camera...
05:44 PM, Jan 03, 2013
Even as Delhi Police is set to file a 1000 page chargesheet in the brutal Delhi gangrape case, there are debates as to how the juvenile accused will be treated by the lawmakers amidst calls for lowering the age for juvenile offenders. ...
03:54 PM, Jan 03, 2013
Shashi Tharoor had on Tuesday sparked a debate with his tweet calling for naming the revised anti-rape law after the Delhi braveheart. ...
03:43 PM, Jan 02, 2013
It has now been learnt that the Delhi Police will file an e-chargesheet in the Delhi gangrape case. Police sources said that this was being done in order to maintain secrecy of content and facilitate fast trial. ...
01:55 PM, Jan 02, 2013
The six accused in the Delhi gangrape case had allegedly tried to mow the girl down under the bus after dumping her in south-west Delhi but her male friend saved her from being crushed. As the Delhi Police is set to submit its charge sheet before the trial court on Thursday, more details of the horrific crime that has shaken the nation's conscience are tumbling out. ...
09:48 PM, Jan 01, 2013
The Delhi Police team which arrested the six accused who allegedly raped and murdered the 23-year-old Delhi braveheart are now getting ready to file a chargesheet against them following which the case would be heard on a day-to-day basis in a fast-track court in Saket. ...
07:30 PM, Jan 01, 2013
Speeding up legal proceedings in the gangrape case that has sparked national outrage, Delhi Police on Monday said they will file a chargesheet against the six accused within a week. Sources said Police Commissioner Neeraj Kumar conveyed this at a meeting convened by Lt Governor Tejinder Khanna with women's groups here. ...
05:07 PM, Dec 24, 2012
New Delhi: A Delhi court on Friday will pronounce its order on framing of charges against former Commonwealth Games Organising Committee (OC) Chairman Suresh Kalmadi and 10 others in a games-related graft case. Special CBI Judge Talwant Singh had on November 21 slated for Friday the pronouncement of order on charges in the case also involving former CWG OC Secretary General Lalit Bhanot as an accused in the case. Besides...
06:27 PM, Dec 20, 2012
New Delhi: Delhi Lokayukta Justice Manmohan Sarin has issued a notice to a BJP MLA in connection with allegations of amassing properties disproportionate to his known source of income. The Lokayukta had initiated the inquiry against Rohini MLA Jai Bhagwan Aggarwal based on a complaint filed by a petitioner who wanted to keep his identity secret. Following a preliminary probe, the Lokayukta had issued a notice to Aggarwal and asked...
01:26 AM, Dec 08, 2012
New Delhi: A Jet Airways employee, a Delhi police officer and an immigration officer have been chargesheeted for allegedly running a "human trafficking" racket. The Special Cell of police filed the chargesheet in a court against Immigration officer Chaman Azhar, Jet Airways staff Manoj Sarpal and police sub-inspector Naveen Chandra alias Rajiv, indicting them for allegedly facilitating travel of passengers on forged passports and immigration stamps. The three have been...
07:35 PM, Nov 26, 2012
Beijing: President Hu Jintao warned China's incoming leaders on Thursday that corruption threatened the ruling Communist Party and the state, but said the party must stay in charge as it battles growing social unrest. In a state-of-the-nation address to more than 2,000 hand-picked party delegates before he hands over power, Hu acknowledged that public anger over graft and issues like environmental degradation had undermined the party's support and led to...
08:46 PM, Nov 08, 2012
Kolkata: Controversy has already come calling for one of the three ministers sworn in from West Bengal during the big Cabinet reshuffle on Sunday. Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury, who was sworn in as the Minister of State for Railways, has now said that he will resign if criminal charges are proven against him. "The Congress cannot grow in Bengal if we bend to TMC. I am challenging the TMC that if...
01:27 PM, Oct 29, 2012
Patna: An FIR was filed on Sunday against former Janata Dal United MLA Munna Shukla on extortion charges. Shukla allegedly demanded Rs 2 crore from a builder for the JDU's Adhikar rally. Opposition Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) chief Lalu Prasad has slammed the ruling party JDU, saying it is using the rally as an 'adhikar' or 'right' to extort money. "This 'adhikar' rally has become a tool for extortion. The...
10:39 AM, Oct 29, 2012
Paris: Spaniard Alberto Contador expressed support on Wednesday for disgraced cyclist Lance Armstrong saying the American was being "humiliated and lynched" by doping accusations which have led to the stripping of his seven Tour de France titles. "It seems to me that at certain times and in certain places Lance is not being treated with any respect," Contador, a double Tour champion who returned from a two-year doping ban in...
12:20 AM, Oct 25, 2012
Shimla: Congress chief ministerial candidate Virbhadra Singh on Wednesday lost his temper at the media. However, after a rap from the Congress leadership in Delhi, came the U-turn and an apology. The Congress is no doubt worried. In the small state of Himachal Pradesh, the stakes are big for the party at the Centre. Aware that in Gujarat, it could be a virtual no-show for the party, a win in...
08:40 PM, Oct 24, 2012
New Delhi: Senior BJP leader LK Advani on Wednesday came out in support of party President Nitin Gadkari and said that the corruption allegations against Gadkari is the UPA's strategy to paint the entire political class with the same brush to minimise and escape its unpardonable sins. Advani issued a statement in support of Gadkari. The statement reads: I have been keenly following the media reports on the monumental corruption...
02:29 PM, Oct 24, 2012
Mumbai: The Mumbai police on Tuesday filed a supplementary chargesheet in the 26/11 attacks case naming Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) terrorist and Mumbai attacks handler Zabiuddin Ansari alias Abu Jundal as the main conspirator. The chargesheet filed by the police is voluminous and runs into 56 volumes. The documentation includes the alleged confession of Jundal and details of how he hatched the deadly terror conspiracy. The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has Jundal's...
04:43 PM, Oct 16, 2012
New Delhi: Trouble for the Congress ahead of Himachal Pradesh election after bribery charges were levelled against party veteran Virbhadra Singh. The former chief minister was allegedly paid a bribe of Rs 2.28 crore by a private firm when he was the steel minister in 2009-2010. The question was raised after reports of the I-T department seizing documents that suggest a bribe being paid to a certain VBS. Virbhadra, currently...
12:27 PM, Oct 13, 2012
New Delhi: A day after anti-corruption crusader-turned-politician Arvind Kejriwal made fresh allegations against Robert Vadra, the son-in-law of Congress president and UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi, construction major DLF and the Congress government in Haryana, many questions remain unanswered. Even as Vadra, DLF and Haryana government have denied any wrongdoing and illegal transactions, a closer look at the documents reveal that everything is not above board. Reacting to Kejriwal's allegations DLF...
06:02 PM, Oct 10, 2012
Mumbai: Shares in biggest property developer DLF slumped on Wednesday, a day after anti-graft activist Arvind Kejriwal alleged that the company received undue favours from the government in Haryana. DLF, valued by investors at about $6.82 billion at Wednesday's close, ended down 4.95 per cent, after losing 7.3 per cent since Monday. Investors, worried about the allegations, have dumped the stock, wiping out more than $1 billion of its market...
04:39 PM, Oct 10, 2012
