Melbourne: An Indian-origin neurosurgeon, convicted in 2010 for manslaughter and supplying cocaine to two female escorts, has won a substantial reduction in his sentence, with an Australian court agreeing that one of the women willingly took the drug which killed her.
Suresh Nair, 44, who pleaded guilty in late 2010 to manslaughter and supplying cocaine, has had a two year and three month jail term for supplying cocaine to escort Victoria McIntyre slashed to six months.
The decision means he will now be eligible for parole a year earlier than originally ordered by the Sydney District Court, the Herald Sun reported. McIntyre died after taking the drug at Nair's Elizabeth Bay apartment in February 2009....
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04:10 PM, Apr 18, 2013
New York: Indian-American hotelier Vikram Chatwal has been arrested earlier this week at an airport in Florida for allegedly carrying a large stash of drugs including cocaine and heroine, a celebrity website reported. According to the TMZ website, the multi-millionaire hotel owner was arrested on April 2 at the Fort Lauderdale/Hollywood International Airport after Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officials found an "arsenal of drugs", including cocaine, weed, heroin and various...
07:30 AM, Apr 05, 2013
An inquest was told on Monday that Maynard was nearly four times above the legal alcohol limit for driving and had taken cocaine and ecstasy before he was electrocuted and hit by a train in June last year. ...
07:03 PM, Feb 27, 2013
Tom Maynard was electrocuted after stepping on a live track before he was hit by a train, causing him to die from multiple injuries last year. ...
07:49 PM, Feb 26, 2013
Heavyweight champion Mike Tyson has admitted he was high on cocaine while shooting his cameo in the hit comedy 'The Hangover'. ...
06:30 PM, Dec 04, 2012
According to reports, the unnamed player admitted to an "incident occurring and was subsequently counselled". ...
10:50 AM, Oct 24, 2012
London: R&B star Rihanna has denied allegations that she was snorting cocaine off her bodyguard's head, insisting she was upset by insinuations she was dabbling with harder drugs. The 'We Found Love' hitmaker sparked controversy after sharing a snap of herself at the California music festival in April sitting on a security worker's shoulders and pouring a mystery substance onto his scalp, reported digitalspy online. "They knew what it was....
03:03 PM, Oct 16, 2012
Mumbai: The 60-year-old lady, who was intercepted with two kg of cocaine at Mumbai airport on Wednesday morning, had fooled the officials at Mumbai airport during her last visit on July 1, agencies suspect. According to sources, the Vietnamese national Ly Loegsle (64), who on Wednesday was arrested with two-kg of cocaine (2 foreigners caught with 6 kg of cocaine, August 23), on her previous visit to the city had...
03:56 PM, Aug 24, 2012
Mumbai: Indian spinner Rahul Sharma faces arrest after testing positive for consumption of drugs at a rave party held in a posh Juhu hotel in May this year, putting in jeopardy his participation at the ODI series against Sri Lanka that begins on Saturday. Sharma was present at the party along with South African cricketer Wayne Parnell when it was busted by the police. The question now is whether Sharma...
07:35 AM, Jul 21, 2012
Mumbai: At least 44 out of the 46 people who were arrested from a rave party on May 20 in Mumbai during the IPL have tested positive for drugs. However, the medical reports of cricketers Rahul Sharma and Wayne Parnell, who attended that party, are still awaited. Ninety-two people were detained at the venue after the Mumbai police busted the party. Twenty-seven of the attendees have tested positive for cannabis,...
06:28 AM, Jun 23, 2012
New Delhi: Almost 44 of the 46 held after the Mumbai Police busted an alleged rave party at suburban Juhu's Oakwoods Hotel on the night of May 20 have tested positive for drugs, sources said on Friday. As many as 100 people, including IPL players, namely Wayne Parnell and Rahul Sharma, and 19 foreign nationals, were detained by the police after they busted the party. However, the test reports of...
08:48 PM, Jun 22, 2012
Hyderabad: Police busted a rave party and nabbed five persons including two women and an alleged drug peddler from an apartment in the upscale Banjara Hills in Hyderabad. Police teams raided the rave party on Saturday night and seized 14 grams of different drugs including cocaine, 24 LSD (blots and tubes) after apprehending five persons, a senior police officer said on Sunday. "A rave party which was going on at...
01:10 PM, Jun 10, 2012
Mumbai: Mumbai Police on Sunday evening bust an alleged rave party at Oakwood Hotel in Juhu. The police claim to have recovered cocaine from the party. Over 80 people, including foreign nationals, have been detained and medical reports are awaited. The police sources said few IPL players may have been involved in the rave party as well. The police said only after the test reports they will be able to...
10:44 PM, May 20, 2012
Washington: Adolf Hitler was apparently a coke head who farted uncontrollably, ingested some 28 drugs at a time and received injections of bull testicle extracts to bolster his libido. It's a whole other side to the Nazi dictator, whose poor health condition was revealed in medical documents that are now up for auction online at Alexander Historical Auctions of Stamford. Bidding for the documents - which include ten X-rays of...
09:34 AM, May 08, 2012
Los Angeles: Whitney Houston was a chronic cocaine user who had the drug in her system when she drowned in a hotel bathtub, coroner's officials said Thursday after releasing autopsy findings that also noted heart disease contributed to her death. The disclosure ended weeks of speculation about what killed the Grammy-winning singer on Feb. 11 on the eve of the Grammy Awards. Houston was found submerged in the bathtub of...
09:27 AM, Mar 23, 2012
The trial will not continue against the actor after he claimed to have been undergoing deaddiction from a government-recognised centre. However, the immunity will be withdrawn in case he is caught in a similar crime again. ...
12:59 PM, Feb 29, 2012
New Delhi: Twenty-year-old Alisha Jose, a bright college student from a middle-class family in Delhi, was coaxed to try a "pill" at a party by her friends around two years ago. Little did she know that it would be her first step towards ruin. According to sources in the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB), a steep increase in party drugs consumption has been noticed in metros like Mumbai, Delhi and Bangalore,...
12:08 PM, Nov 10, 2011
NDPS court in Mumbai on Tuesday framed charges against actor Fardeen Khan for attempting to buy cocaine. ...
04:44 PM, Oct 05, 2011
Mumbai: The police on Tuesday framed charges against Bollywood actor Fardeen Khan in connection with a 2001 cocaine case. The actor has been framed for buying one gram of cocaine. His actions will attract only six months in jail. It came as a reprieve for Fardeen, who was earlier charged with possessing of 9 gm of cocaine. Fardeen was arrested in 2001 and 10 gm of cocaine was allegedly seized...
02:48 PM, Oct 04, 2011
Miami: Burglars snorted the cremated remains of a man and two dogs in the mistaken belief that they had stolen illegal drugs, Florida sheriff's deputies said on Wednesday. The ashes were taken from a woman's home in the central Florida town of Silver Springs Shores on December 15. The thieves took an urn containing the ashes of her father and another container with the ashes of her two Great Danes,...
12:29 PM, Jan 20, 2011
