Mumbai: A TADA court on Friday issued a non-bailable warrant against 1993 Bombay blasts co-accused Zaibunissa Kazi after she failed to surrender in the court on Friday, as per scheduled. The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) will execute this warrant.
The daughter of 70-year-old Zaibunissa was likely to seek a day more for her mother to surrender citing health reasons. The Supreme Court had earlier granted four weeks time to Zaibunnisa to surrender in the court to serve the remaining sentence.
Zaibunnissa had in April submitted a petition in the apex court saying that she should not be forced to surrender and serve the remaining part of the sentence till the President decides on her clemency plea. But the Supreme Court rejected the plea.
Zaibunnisa had mentioned in her petition that she was being treated for kidney cancer and her condition was so bad that she not only required constant medical attention but also needed an attendant. She had said that she would not be able to survive in jail. She had said that a petition under Article 72 has been filed on her behalf before the President, seeking pardon of her punishment....
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04:43 PM, May 17, 2013
Mumbai: Actor Sanjay Dutt spent his first night in jail in Mumbai's Arthur Road Jail on Thursday. He is awaiting an order which decides as to which jail will he be permanently shifted to. He is most likely to be taken to Pune's Yerwada Jail in a day or two, where he will serve his three-and-a-half-year sentence. He has been allowed home-cooked meals and medicines from home for a month....
09:43 AM, May 17, 2013
Mumbai: Amidst chaos, crowd and cameras, the 1993 Bombay blasts accused and Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt surrendered in a Terrorist and Disruptive Activities (TADA) court on Thursday afternoon to serve his three-and-a-half year sentence. A large number of media persons and onlookers surrounded Dutt's car as he reached the court. Dutt will be taken to Arthur Road prison first, then to Yerwada Jail in Pune. TADA court directed the Mumbai...
05:40 PM, May 16, 2013
Mumbai: 4:27 pm: Filmmaker Mahesh Bhatt, who accompanied Sanjay Dutt to court, says, "Sanjay has surrendered in court and has asked for certain things like home-cooked food and medicines. There will be a new Sanjay Dutt when he comes back from the jail. 4:16 pm: Court allows home-cooked food, mattress, pillow and medicines in jail to Sanjay Dutt for a month, but after that he will have to eat jail...
01:39 PM, May 16, 2013
Mumbai: Actor Sanjay Dutt will finally surrender in a TADA court in Mumbai on Thursday in the 1993 Bombay blasts case. Earlier he had filed an application requesting to be allowed to surrender directly at Pune's Yerwada Jail expressing fears of being chased by the media and threats from fundamentalists. However, the actor withdrew his application on Wednesday morning. Dutt will be surrendering two months after the Supreme Court upheld...
06:06 AM, May 16, 2013
Mumbai: Actor Sanjay Dutt on Wednesday told a court here that he will surrender before it on Thursday to undergo the prison term in the 1993 Bombay blasts case, even as a jail official said he would be provided adequate security in the wake of an anonymous letter alleging threat to his life. Dutt's lawyer Subhash Yadav submitted before the special TADA court that the 53-year-old actor wanted to withdraw...
06:30 PM, May 15, 2013
Mumbai: Actor Sanjay Dutt will surrender at TADA court in Mumbai on Thursday in the 1993 Bombay blasts case. Dutt has withdrawn his application to surrender at Yerwada Jail in Pune which he had filed on Tuesday. Dutt's lawyer Subhash Jadhav informed the court that he wants to withdraw the application and he will surrender on Thursday. Dutt had expressed fears of being chased by the media and that he...
12:07 PM, May 15, 2013
Mumbai: Actor Sanjay Dutt will surrender at TADA court in Mumbai on Wednesday in the 1993 Bombay blasts case. Dutt has withdrawn his application to surrender at Yerwada Jail in Pune which he had filed on Tuesday. Dutt's lawyer informed the court that he wants to withdraw the application. Dutt had expressed fears of being chased by the media and that he faces threat from fundamentalists. Dutt on Tuesday told...
11:29 AM, May 15, 2013
Mumbai: Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt, convicted in 1993 bomb blasts case, on Tuesday urged a designated TADA court in Mumbai to allow him to surrender before Yerwada jail in Pune instead of giving himself up before the special court. Judge GA Sanap, hearing the actor's application, asked CBI to file a reply and posted the hearing on Dutt's plea on Wednesday. Public prosecutor Deepak Salvi appeared for the Government and...
03:29 PM, May 14, 2013
New Delhi: The Supreme Court has refused to entertain a petition by a Bollywood production house who sought an extension of time for actor Sanjay Dutt to surrender so that he could finish the shoot for its films. The two films that Dutt is currently shooting for are 'Policegiri' and 'Vasooli'. Dutt is to surrender on May 15 in the 1993 Bombay serial blasts case. Dutt was held guilty by...
11:36 AM, May 14, 2013
New Delhi: The Supreme Court has rejected actor Sanjay Dutt's review petition in the 1993 Bombay blasts case saying there was no merit in the argument presented by him. Dutt had sought a review of the March 21 judgement upholding his conviction and five years jail in 1993 Bombay serial blasts case. Sanjay Dutt is scheduled to surrender on May 15. A bench of P Sathasivam and BS Chauhan, which...
02:53 PM, May 10, 2013
Mumbai: An 85-year-old man awarded life sentence in the 1993 serial bomb blasts in the metropolis on Sunday died at his residence here. Ishaq Hajwane was at present out on bail. The Supreme Court had upheld his conviction by TADA court in March 2013. He was one of the convicts who along with actor Sanjay Dutt had been given one-month additional time to surrender by the apex court. "Ishaq Hajwane...
04:35 PM, May 05, 2013
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01:18 PM, Apr 27, 2013
Mumbai: In what may spell more trouble for actor Sanjay Dutt, a Mumbai court on Monday issued a non-bailable arrest warrant against him after a producer moved court against him. Producer Shakeel Noorani moved the Andheri court alleging that the actor did not complete his film. The Supreme Court had recently given the actor four more weeks to surrender in the 1993 Bombay blasts case. The actor, who had earlier...
01:41 PM, Apr 22, 2013
The Joint Parliamentary Committee on the 2G spectrum scam on Thursday gave a clean chit to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Finance Minister P Chidambaram, saying that the duo was not informed of the change in policy by the then telecom minister A Raja. ...
09:11 PM, Apr 18, 2013
Mumbai: The Supreme Court gave Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt a month's reprieve in the 1993 Mumbai blasts case, but the producers of his films feel four weeks are not enough for him to wrap up all the projects in hand. Sentenced to five years in jail for possessing weapons illegally during the 1993 Mumbai riots, Sanjay, 53, wanted six more months to surrender to complete his projects worth Rs 278...
07:14 PM, Apr 18, 2013
Mumbai: Twenty five convicts in the 1993 serial bomb blasts case surrendered on Thursday before a designated TADA court in keeping with the Supreme Court order upholding their conviction and dismissing their appeals. Eleven others had surrendered before the same court on Wednesday. Eight more convicts, including actor Sanjay Dutt, have been given time by the Supreme Court to return to jail to serve the remaining period of sentence. The...
06:42 PM, Apr 18, 2013
The Supreme Court on Thursday granted Zaibunissa Kazi and six other convicts four more weeks to surrender in the 1993 Bombay blasts case. ...
03:54 PM, Apr 18, 2013
New Delhi: After giving partial relief to actor Sanjay Dutt and 3 other convicts, the Supreme Court on Thursday gave four more weeks to surrender to four more convicts including Zaibunissa Kazi in the 1993 Bombay blasts case. The other three convicts who have got a partial relief are KC Adjania, Abdul Gafoor Parkera and Ishad Md Hajwane. Reacting to the court order, Zaibunissa's daughter said, "Allah has listened to...
02:24 PM, Apr 18, 2013
