While Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt on Thursday said that he had not sought pardon from five years' sentence handed down by the Supreme Court in the 1993 Mumbai blasts case, Zaibunisa Kazi, whose case is similar to Dutt's, has sought one. While her daughter has written to Press Council Chairman Justice Markandey Katju in this regard, some news channels on Thursday aired a video recording which showed Kazi herself appealing...
10:19 PM, Mar 28, 2013
Press Council of India (PCI) chairman Justice Markandey Katju has kept his word and written to President Pranab Mukherjee seeking pardon for actor Sanjay Dutt and 1993 Mumbai blasts case convict Zaibunisa Kazi. Even as Dutt said in a statement that he would not apply for mercy, Katju had earlier promised that, "I will appeal for Dutt and Zaibunisa's pardon. It's true that it was a grave offence and the...
08:49 PM, Mar 28, 2013
Even as actor Sanjay Dutt clarified that he would not seek a pardon in the 1993 Mumbai blasts case, Press Council of India chief Justice Katju said he would continue his endeveour. "Pardon can be granted on myriad grounds, on humanitarian grounds and various other grounds. Going to mention that in my letter to the President and the Governor. I am going to continue my endeavour," he said. ...
12:04 PM, Mar 28, 2013
The SC found Sanjay Dutt guilty of acquiring illegal weapons from those blamed for the bombings in Mumbai that killed 257 people and was given four weeks to surrender. ...
07:40 PM, Mar 25, 2013
A day after he was sentenced, the clamour for Sanjay Dutt's sentence to be commuted has grown louder. First press council chief Katju and then members of the film fraternity made public appeals for a pardon for the actor. ...
08:45 PM, Mar 22, 2013
Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday evening joined the war of words between Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Arun Jaitley and Press Council of India Chairman Justice Markandey Katju. Hitting out at Katju, the Gujarat CM tweeted, "Justice Katju looks at Gujarat with a jaundiced eye. Jaitleyji's insightful article demolishing lies spread about Gujarat." ...
07:21 PM, Feb 17, 2013
Press Council chairman Justice Markandey Katju has hit out at the Union Home Ministry over detention of Kashmiri journalist Iftikhar Gilani. In a hard-hitting letter to Union Home Secretary RK Singh, Katju condemned Iftikhar's detention and said that policemen who were involved in the "illegal act" should be suspended and prosecuted. ...
07:30 PM, Feb 10, 2013
There was high drama at Congress MP and industrialist Naveen Jindal's press conference on Thursday afternoon where he claimed he had proof against the editors of Zee News allegedly extorting money from his team. Jindal screened the video of what was shown to be a sting operation his company did on Zee News. It purportedly shows Zee Business Editor Sameer Ahluwalia demanding money from Jindal's company. ...
11:37 PM, Oct 25, 2012
Kudankulam protest claims its first life. Cartoonist Aseem Trivedi has said that he will not apply for a bail. ...
11:57 PM, Sep 10, 2012
Mumbai: After country-wide outrage and severe criticism for the arrest of cartoonist Aseem Trivedi, Mumbai Police decided to give up his custody on Monday. Trivedi was sent to police custody till September 16 on Sunday. Trivedi's friend and India Against Corruption (IAC) member Mayank Gandhi met Trivedi on Monday and was told by the police officers that they would give up his custody soon. Earlier, Maharashtra Home Minister RR Patil...
01:15 PM, Sep 10, 2012
While the Press Council has called the charges against the cartoonist ridiculous, Maharashtra Home Minister RR Patil has said that police custody was not needed. ...
11:23 AM, Sep 10, 2012
Justice Markandey Katju has slammed the charges against cartoonist Aseem Trivedi as "non-sense, stupid" and said that the policemen who arrested him must be put behind bars for violation of fundamental rights. ...
11:01 AM, Sep 10, 2012
New Delhi: Indian death row prisoner in Pakistan Sarabjit Singh has filed a fresh appeal to President Asif Ali Zardari seeking mercy on the occasion of that country's Independence day on August 14, his lawyer Awais Sheikh said on Thursday. Sheikh, who met Sarabjit in Lahore jail this afternoon, in an email letter to the prisoner's son Swapandeep, said that his father had signed the letter addressed to Zardari for...
02:23 AM, Jul 13, 2012
New Delhi: Press Council Chairman Justice Markandey Katju on Saturday said anti-corruption activist Anna Hazare lacks scientific ideas which are needed to solve the problem of graft. The PCI chairman also took a dig at the media for "hyping" up the issues such as the 100th century of Sachin Tendulkar, retirement of Rahul Dravid, pregnancy of Aishwarya Rai Bachchan and death of film star Dev Anand. "This Anna Hazare movement,...
09:58 PM, Mar 24, 2012
New Delhi: Attacking Salman Rushdie, Press Council of India (PCI) Chairman Markandey Katju today said the "sensationalism" depicted by his book 'Satanic Verses' has deeply hurt Muslim sensitivities and that an individual's freedom of speech has to harmonised with the public interest. Justice Katju, who had last week termed Rushdie as a "sub-standard and poor writer", also questioned the Booker Prize awarded to the author saying it was "mystery" why...
04:26 PM, Jan 30, 2012
Tonight at 10, Sagarika Ghose asks a panel of experts if Justice Katju should apologise to journalists for calling them uneducated.
12:25 PM, Nov 02, 2011
Perth: India on Thursday looked set to extend star batsman Sachin Tendulkar's long wait for his elusive 100th international century by resisting calls to scrap their top-order rotation policy. Captain MS Dhoni would not confirm if Tendulkar would be rested for Sunday's tri-series game against Australia, but said India would continue to drop one of their top three to make space for Rohit Sharma in the middle order. In Wednesday's ...
01:19 AM, Apr 22, 2008
Bangalore: After Praveen Kumar's elbow injury ruled him out of the World Cup, the Indian team management seemed to be extra cautious and careful about the players who are coming back from injuries. No wonder that coach Gary Kirsten paid special attention to the Delhi duo of Virender Sehwag and Gautam Gambhir who have recently recuperated from shoulder and elbow injuries respectively, during the first day of India's short pre-World...
10:59 PM, Dec 11, 2007
New Delhi: Explosive all-rounder Yusuf Pathan on Tuesday said that playing in the World Cup is a dream come true for him and he always wanted to represent India at the biggest stage. "I have been playing well in the recent past and hoped that one day I would play in the World Cup and that dream has come true today", said Pathan in an interview with CNN-IBN. The 28-year-old...
01:21 AM, Dec 11, 2007
