
A Nagpur court on Thursday is likely to give its order on the closure report filed by the Maharashtra Criminal Investigation Department in the Yogita Thakre death case. In May 2009, the body of seven-year-old Yogita was found inside a car parked in the compound of the residence of Bharatiya Janata Party president Nitin Gadkari in Nagpur. Yogita was the daughter of Gadkari's household help. ...

09:42 AM, Jan 17, 2013

Suspended IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt's case will be heard in a Jamnagar court on Tuesday. The local court had earlier framed charges of murder and other offences against him in a 22-year-old case of custodial torture. Recently, Sanjiv Bhatt's wife Shweta Bhatt given a poll ticket by the Congress against Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi in the coming elections. ...

10:40 AM, Dec 04, 2012

The National Human Rights Commission on Friday registered a case on the death of dentist Savita Halappanavar, who died last month in Ireland after doctors refused to terminate her miscarriage pregnancy on the ground that Ireland was a Catholic country. ...

09:31 PM, Nov 30, 2012

Ahmedabad: Suspended Gujarat IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt who says that he has been targeted by Chief Minister Narendra Modi has alleged that evidence related to the 2002 Gujarat riots has been selectively destroyed and hence an inquiry should be ordered into the same. "These are state control room records, state intelligence bureau control room records which reflect as to how the situation developed, what information came in, what instructions were...

08:02 AM, Nov 10, 2012

IPS officer and known Narendra Modi baiter Sanjiv Bhatt has been charged with the custodial death of a VHP worker. The incident dates back to 1990 when Bhatt was the assistant SP of Jamnagar. Six other policemen have been indicted in the case as well. ...

09:02 AM, Nov 09, 2012

Mumbai: The police are still questioning model and actress Bidushi Dash's husband over her murder in Mumbai. Investigators are now going through her phone records. Sources say she received 200 messages and 100 missed calls on the day she was found dead. Twenty-three-year-old Bidushi Dash is the latest on the list of young women who have met an untimely death in Mumbai. Dash's body was discovered by her husband Kedar...

01:30 PM, Oct 25, 2012

Mumbai: Two days after model Bidushi Dash Barde was found murdered here, Mumbai police today recorded the statement of her software engineer husband, but is yet to make any headway in the probe. Police have not got any definite clues about the culprits, sources said. They, however, said that a statement of Bidushi's husband Kedar was recorded on Wednesday. 23-year-old Bidushi, a former Miss Chennai and South Indian film actor,...

02:41 AM, Oct 25, 2012

Mumbai: Twenty three-year-old Bidushi Dash is the latest on the list of young women who have met an untimely death in Mumbai. Dash's body was discovered by her husband Kedar Badra at their flat in Andheri on Monday night. Her body had injuries caused by glass shards, said police sources. Bidushi's husband Kedar had left home at 8 am on Monday morning. He said that he tried calling her around...

06:46 PM, Oct 24, 2012

Mumbai: The Mumbai Police on Wednesday launched a probe into the call records of the Mumbai-based actor-model Bidushi Dash Barde, who was found dead in her Mumbai apartment on Monday night. Police sources said that they were investigating the more than 100 missed calls and 200 text messages that she received on the day she died. Meanwhile, Bidushi's husband, Kedar Barde, who found her body in their flat in Andheri,...

05:09 PM, Oct 24, 2012

Mumbai: The Mumbai Police have exhumed the body of 22-year-old Rameez Chougule, the younger of the two siblings who were found dead at their flat in Versova in July this year. Rameez and his elder sister Rehab allegedly died due to pesticide poisoning after pest control operations at their apartment. The police had then called it "accidental deaths", drawing much criticism from the media and the people. On Monday, the...

07:39 AM, Sep 18, 2012

New Delhi: The Delhi tattoo artist death case took an unusual twist on Monday after a train driver admitting hitting a man on railway tracks near the same spot on the same date at the same time when Paras Bhasin reportedly died near the railway tracks. The train driver's statement now puts a big question mark on the victim's family's claims that he was murdered by his in-laws. The Delhi...

02:25 PM, Sep 10, 2012

New Delhi: The viscera report of Fiza alias Anuradha Bali, the ex-wife of former Haryana deputy Chief Minister Chander Mohan, has found traces of poison in her body. The doctors say that the poison is suspected to be rat poison, that mainly consists of aluminium phosphate. Fiza's body was found in a highly-decomposed state in her apartment in Chandigarh on August 6. While initial reports claimed it to be a...

03:09 PM, Sep 08, 2012

Gwalior: Madhya Pradesh DGP has ordered arrest of eight policemen for the alleged custodial death of a person in Gwalior in 2011. DGP Nandan Dube, after reviewing the case, ordered that all the accused policemen be arrested and chargesheeted, police sources said on Tuesday. Government Railway Police (GRP) had arrested one Sunil Rajawat on July 19, 2011 in connection with a theft case. He was allegedly beaten up in custody...

03:07 AM, Apr 18, 2012

Nagpur: A Nagpur court on Wednesday rejected the CID closure report in Yogita Thakre case and directed the agency to carry out further investigation into the death mystry of the 7-year-old girl. Her family alleges that she was murdered and did not die accidentally as the CID probe concluded, and Wednesday's verdict gave them a new hope. On May 19, 2009, Yogita was found dead in the boot of a...

02:02 PM, Dec 21, 2011

Nagpur: A Nagpur court is expected to deliver its verdict on the CID closure report in the mysterious death case of Yogita Thakre on Wednesday. The 7-year-old girl was found dead in the boot of a car near BJP President Nitin Gadkari's home in May 2009. Her family alleges that she was murdered and did not die accidentally as the CID probe concluded. On May 19, 2009, Yogita was found...

10:08 AM, Dec 21, 2011

Kolkata: A fast track city court on Thursday framed charges against the accused Todis and middleman Pappu for abetment to suicide of Rizwanur Rahman. The four accused are also charged with criminal intimidation and criminal conspiracy. The CBI had prayed for slapping abetment to suicide charge against industrialist Ashok Todi and other accused, including two IPS officers. However, the charge of abetment to suicide against the three Kolkata Police officers...

01:54 PM, Apr 21, 2011

New Delhi: The CBI on Tuesday registered a case and begun a probe into the death of Sadiq Batcha, a close aide of former Telecom Minister A Raja who has been arrested in the multi-crore spectrum allocation scam. The agency has started its investigations under section 174 of the CrPC in the mysterious death of Batcha who was found hanging at his home in Chennai on March 16. The section...

06:23 PM, Apr 05, 2011

Jaipur: Rajasthan government suspended three doctors on Thursday in connection with the death of women who were given intravenous fluid in two state-run hospitals in Jodhpur. The action came after the government received the report by Divisional Commissioner of Jodhpur on the incidents, Health Minister A.A.Khan said in the state assembly. "On the basis of the preliminary findings of Jodhpur Divisional Commissioner, HoD Gynecology of Jodhpur Medical College, Dr. Sumitra...

06:32 PM, Mar 17, 2011

She was arrested on the basis of statements given by former Goa tourism minister Mickey Pacheco. ...

08:42 AM, Jul 16, 2010

Pacheco has been charged with abetment of suicide and culpable homicide not amounting to murder. ...

06:55 PM, Jul 08, 2010