New Delhi: The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) on Saturday questioned the bail granted to chief accused in the Israel embassy car blast case, Syed Mohammed Kazmi, saying that if he was given bail, why hadn't Sadhvi Pragya Thakur been granted bail yet.
RSS spokesperson Ram Madhav Varanasi said, " Justice Kabir, CJI, said Kazmi, accused in the attack on an Israeli diplomat's wife in Delhi has statutory right to bail. He is released. What about Sadhvi Pragya? Is the Supreme Court setting another new precedent by granting bail to Kazmi against whom ample evidence of direct involvement in the plot is available?"
The Supreme Court had in September rejected the bail plea of Sadhvi Pragya Thakur, who is facing charges for her alleged involvement in the 2008 Malegaon blast case. Thakur has been in custody of the Maharashtra ATS since October 2008, and faces charges under Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA).
Kazmi was, meanwhile, released from the Tihar jail around 9 pm on Saturday....
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10:33 PM, Oct 20, 2012
New Delhi: The judicial custody of journalist Syed Mohammed Ahmad Kazmi, who was arrested for his alleged role in the February 13 bomb attack at Israeli diplomat Tal Yehoshua's car, ends on Saturday. Kazmi on March 30 moved a Delhi court for bail. Court sources said Kazmi had sought bail on the ground that the police had told the court earlier, at the time he was sent to the judicial...
06:48 AM, Apr 21, 2012
New Delhi: Journalist Syed Mohammed Ahmad Kazmi, arrested for his alleged role in the February 13 bomb attack at Israeli diplomat Tal Yehoshua's car, resulting in critical injuries to her, on Friday moved a Delhi court for bail. Kazmi's bail plea, filed in the court of Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Vinod Yadav, is to come up for hearing on Saturday. Court sources said Kazmi has sought bail on the ground that...
07:15 PM, Mar 30, 2012
New Delhi: Home Minister P Chidambaram on Friday said that India's trade with China was booming and there was no reason to envy the country, rather it should be emulated. He said China and India are two large countries and Beijing challenges New Delhi to compete with it on equal terms. "We should not fear competition from China. There is no reason to envy China. If at all, we should...
02:34 PM, Jan 06, 2012
Beijing: The two Indians, who were virtually held captive by local traders in China's Yiwu trade hub, have now been shifted to a hotel for "safety" reasons by the police, even as India issued an advisory asking its traders to "stay away" from the busy commodity centre. Police in Yiwu, a trade hub in Zhejiang province close to Shanghai, shifted Shyamsunder Agrewal and Deepak Raheja to a hotel where two...
01:42 PM, Jan 03, 2012
New Delhi: The Ministry of External Affairs will summon Chinese Deputy Chief of Mission to lodge protest over the ill treatment meted out to Indian diplomat in Shanghai, sources said. Indian embassy officials are apparently in a meeting with officials from the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Beijing. The Indian diplomat was attacked as he tried to secure the release of two Indians who were held hostage by locals,...
04:08 PM, Jan 02, 2012
New Delhi: India has taken serious note of the attack on an Indian diplomat in a Chinese court by some local traders. Indian embassy officials are apparently in a meeting with officials from the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Beijing. Sources have said that the Ministry of External Affairs has summoned Chinese diplomat on the incident. The Indian Counsulate in Shanghai protested to the Yiwu local government officials. Meanwhile,...
03:02 PM, Jan 02, 2012
Beijing: An Indian diplomat was injured and hospitalised following an assault by a large group of Chinese traders in a court, as he tried to secure the release of two Indians who were held hostage by locals, demanding payment of their dues in the eastern business hub of Yiwu. S Balachandran, a diplomat at the Indian Consulate in Shanghai was rushed to hospital when he fainted after being "manhandled" by...
01:48 PM, Jan 02, 2012
