New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Wednesday ordered prosecution of Bollywood actor Shyan Munshi and ballistic expert Prem Sagar Manocha for turning hostile in the 1999 Jessica Lal murder case, an offence which entails maximum punishment of seven years' imprisonment.
Munshi, the complainant and the key witness in the case, had disowned the complaint during the trial, saying he did not know Hindi. Munshi had disowned the statement, presented by the police in the case, saying he had narrated the incident in English as he did not know Hindi.
During the trial, Munshi had also supported the two-gun theory in the case. Coming down heavily on him in 2006, the Delhi High Court had said: "In court he has taken a somersault and came out with a version that there were two gentlemen at the bar counter. ...(We) have no manner of doubt that on this aspect he is telling a complete lie".
The other witness, who differed with the initial prosecution theory in the Jessica Lal murder case, was Prem Sagar Manocha, the then deputy director of the Rajasthan State Forensic Science Laboratory, Jaipur. ...
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05:32 PM, May 22, 2013
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court has decided that a case of perjury will commence against two witnesses, Shayan Munshi and Prem Sagar Manocha in the Jessica Lal murder trial. The rest of the 17 witnesses have been acquitted by the court. The 19 witnesses had turned hostile during the trial of the Jessica Lal murder case. A bench of justices S Ravindra Bhat and GP Mittal pronounced its decision...
02:50 PM, May 22, 2013
Assam: Despite all government assurances and efforts, India's best known national park still remains vulnerable to poaching. Around 17 rhinos have been killed in the last four months in Kaziranga. "The increased number of poaching is definitely a concern particularly last year two years after floods. The reason is the organised poaching groups, the demand in the international market and some local issues here and there" Kaziranga National Park Director...
09:05 AM, May 21, 2013
Over 48 hours since the Bijapur encounter, the government has conceded that those killed were innocent villagers, not Naxals. One COBRA personnel and seven villagers were killed in an encounter at Ehadsameta village of Bijapur district in Chhattisgarh late Friday night. CRPF and state police involved in the operation had initially claimed that the encounter was genuine. ...
12:57 AM, May 21, 2013
Guatemala City: A Guatemalan court on Friday found former dictator Efrain Rios Montt guilty of genocide and crimes against humanity during the bloodiest phase of the country's 36-year civil war. He was sentenced to 50 years in prison on the genocide charge and 30 years for crimes against humanity. It was the first time a former head of state had been found guilty of genocide in his or her own...
07:11 AM, May 11, 2013
Chennai: Southern actress Manochitra is making a come-back after two years in a new avatar and says she gave herself a makeover to convince fillmakers that she can play urban characters too. A Tamilian from Kancheepuram, Manochitra, who rose to fame with her performance in debut Tamil drama 'Aval Peyar Thamizharasi', is keen to essay city-based characters. "Ever since I played a village belle in my debut, I have been...
08:59 PM, Apr 29, 2013
Goa, south India. A beautiful holiday hideaway where hippies and backpackers while away the hours. But beneath the clear blue skies lies a dirty secret. Simran Singh is desperate for a break and some time away from her busy job as a social worker-come-crime investigator. And so the unspoilt idyll of Goa seems just the place - white beaches, blue seas and no crime. But when a disturbing video appears...
04:57 PM, Apr 26, 2013
Author Kishwar Desai has released a book which reflects the increasing crimes against women in the country. CNN-IBN Deputy Editor Sagarika Ghose was part of the panel discussion at the launch. ...
09:08 AM, Apr 22, 2013
Santiago: Bone remains of Chilean Nobel literature laureate Pablo Neruda will be analyzed in the United States as investigators seek to resolve a four-decade mystery about his death. Neruda's body was exhumed this week in an effort to discover if he died from prostate cancer as was recorded, or if he was poisoned by agents of Gen Augusto Pinochet's bloody dictatorship, as his driver and others believe. Rodolfo Reyes, one...
07:45 AM, Apr 13, 2013
In a jolt to pro-Khalistan groups in the US, the Obama Administration on Tuesday refused to declare the 1984 anti-Sikh riots in India as genocide, but noted that grave human rights violations had occurred. The White House response in this regard came months after a section of the Sikh community in the US launched an online petition campaign urging the Obama Administration to recognise the 1984 riots as genocide. ...
12:45 PM, Apr 02, 2013
One more rhinoceros fell prey to the poachers' bullet who also chopped its horn in Kaziranga National Park, taking the toll to 15 in 2013. ...
10:40 PM, Mar 26, 2013
A bullet ridden body of a Rhinoceros with its horn removed has been found at the Kaziranga National Park in Assam. ...
09:33 PM, Mar 24, 2013
A bullet ridden body of a rhinoceros with its horn removed has been found at the Kaziranga National Park in Assam. Forest officials recovered shells of bullets and rifles used to kill the animal. ...
08:24 AM, Mar 24, 2013
Janata Party president Subramanian Swamy said on Tuesday that the DMK supremo M Karunanidhi is "scared" of Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa and he does not "want to be left behind", which is why he pulled out of the United Progressive Alliance government. The DMK pulled out of the Congress-led UPA coalition to protest against the government's position on a US-backed United Nations resolution against Sri Lanka. ...
05:08 PM, Mar 19, 2013
Slamming DMK President M Karunanidhi for announcing his party's withdrawal from the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government over the Sri Lankan Tamils issue, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa described it as a "drama" and indicated it was an action which came too late in the day. His announcement that the party was withdrawing its support to the Centre over the Lankan Tamils issue was a late decision, she said...
04:50 PM, Mar 19, 2013
Makers of 2010's Sanjay Dutt and Irrfan Khan-starrer 'Knock Out' have been asked to pay a sum of Rs 1.25 crore for infringement of copyright in a recent verdict by Bombay High Court. ...
04:46 PM, Mar 15, 2013
Government has blocked a total of 254 URLs (web addresses) or uniform resource locators in 2013, Parliament was informed on Wednesday. Of the total URLs blocked, 60 URLs were of sites hosting videos of the film Innocence of Muslims and 194 URLs were blocked in compliance of court orders, Minister of State for Communication and IT Milind Deora said in a written reply to Lok Sabha. ...
07:21 PM, Mar 13, 2013
Innocent, who turned 65 Thursday, is under treatment for throat cancer. ...
05:09 PM, Mar 03, 2013
Despite Tendulkar's whirlwind 175 off 141 balls against Australia in 2009, India lost the Hyderabad ODI by three runs. ...
05:49 PM, Feb 28, 2013
