Islamabad: Former President Pervez Musharraf on Friday approached the Islamabad High Court to challenge the rejection of his bail by an anti-terrorism court in a case related to detention of judges during the 2007 emergency in Pakistan. In a petition filed through his counsel Ilyas Siddiqui, Musharraf said that, being a former president, he could not be tried under the Anti-Terrorism Act and the charges levelled against him were bailable.
"The petitioner was supreme commander of the armed forces and was president of Pakistan, and the president cannot be a terrorist," the petition said. It further said that none of the provisions of the Anti-Terrorism Act were applicable in Musharraf's case. No order or any evidence was available on record to show that Musharraf was the person who had detained the judges or put them under restraints, the petition said.
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12:12 AM, May 25, 2013
Mumbai: Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt, who surrendered on Thursday before a special TADA court here, is planning to file a curative petition before the Supreme Court, his lawyer said. "We are planning to file a curative petition in the apex court soon," Dutt's advocate Rizwan Merchant told special TADA Judge GA Sanap when the proceedings were on to take the 53-year-old actor into custody. Dutt had earlier filed a review...
06:22 PM, May 16, 2013
Beijing: Internet users in China, a country with a long tradition of petitioning, are appealing to a new authority to resolve grievances and controversies such as the merits of salty or sweet tofu - the US White House petitions website. Created by US President Barack Obama, the online petitioning system was designed as an "easy way for Americans to make their voices heard", according to the website. But he may...
01:32 PM, May 08, 2013
Cuttack: The Orissa High Court on Tuesday rejected two review petitions filed by two religious organizations seeking a relook at its January 2011 orders on demolition of illegal places of worship. The Division Bench of Justice Madanmohan Das and Indrajit Mohanti, adjudicating over the matter, did not make any further observation while rejecting the review petitions. Soon after the High Court order, the Revenue Divisional Commissioner (RDC) Central Division Arvind...
02:46 AM, May 08, 2013
Allahabad: The Allahabad High Court on Thursday issued notice to an MLA of the ruling Samajwadi Party in Uttar Pradesh on a petition seeking probe by an independent agency into his alleged role in the murder of his security guard. A division bench comprising Justices Ravindra Singh and Anil Kumar Agrawal issued the notice to Sayeed Ahmed, who represents Phulpur Assembly seat in Allahabad district, on the petition of one...
01:10 AM, May 03, 2013
New Delhi: The political debate over the execution of Khalistani terrorist Devender Pal Singh Bhullar remains charged, but there is a new twist, his doctor and one of the judges who ruled in his case, say there is a case to grant him pardon. While the Supreme Court has shot down his plea for death sentence to be commuted, his doctor says his condition is worsening. Bhullar has been undergoing...
09:47 AM, Apr 24, 2013
Mumbai: Days after being granted one more month to surrender, actor Sanjay Dutt has filed a review petition in the Supreme Court challenging his conviction and five-year jail term in the 1993 Bombay serial blasts case. The review petition against the March 21 judgement of the apex court was filed by 53-year-old Dutt on Friday and is likely to come up for hearing next week, sources said. Dutt was held...
05:41 PM, Apr 21, 2013
Chennai: The Madras High Court on Friday ordered issue of a notice to former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Karunanidhi on a petition seeking a direction to police to probe a complaint against him for allegedly making certain "malicious" remarks at a public meeting here over a decade ago. When the matter came up before Justice N Kirubakaran, the Public Prosecutor took notice on behalf of Chennai Police. "The petitioner...
04:15 AM, Apr 20, 2013
New Delhi: The Supreme Court of India on Tuesday rejected the review petition of Zaibunissa Kazi and four others in the 1993 Bombay blasts case. Earlier in the day, the apex court had rejected Zaibunissa's petition to extend the time to surrender and directed her to surrender by the given deadline of April 18. The SC, along with Zaibunissa, rejected review pleas of Kersi Bapuji Adjania, Yusuf Khan, Ranjit Kumar...
06:50 PM, Apr 16, 2013
Cuttack: Odisha High Court on Monday asked Assembly Speaker Pradeep Kumar Amat to file a counter affidavit within seven days in response to a contempt petition filed against him by the state NCP president Utkal Ranjan Parida. A Division Bench of Justices Indrajit Mahanti and BN Mohapatra after taking up the contempt petition against the Speaker earlier this month had asked the government counsel to get instructions from the Speaker...
02:02 AM, Apr 16, 2013
Chennai: The video conferencing session of Perarivalan, a death row convict in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case, with the Chief Information Commissioner planned on Monday over his RTI query has been postponed, a top police official said. "The session has been postponed. There is no information on when would be the next session," ADGP (Prisons) JK Tripathy told PTI. The hearing was to take place today on Perarivalan's Right to...
07:04 PM, Apr 15, 2013
New Delhi: No relief for Khalistani terrorist Devender Pal Singh Bhullar. But the Supreme Court decision spells disappointment for others on death row too. The apex court on Friday rejected the mercy petition of Bhullar, who had sought commutation of his death penalty to life sentence on the ground that there was inordinate delay by the President over his plea for clemency. The big question is that will this verdict...
08:59 PM, Apr 12, 2013
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday rejected the mercy petition of Devinder Pal Singh Bhullar, who had sought commutation of his death penalty to life sentence on the ground that there was inordinate delay by the President over his plea for clemency. The court said that delay cannot be a ground for commuting death sentence to a life term. Bhullar was sentenced to death in 2003 for carrying out...
11:29 AM, Apr 12, 2013
Mumbai: Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt, ordered by the Supreme Court to complete his five years sentence for complicity in the 1993 Mumbai blasts, is mulling filing a review petition against the judgement, sources close to him said today. The Supreme Court had on March 21 upheld Dutt's conviction under Arms Act and sentenced him to five years in jail of which he has already served 18 months. In keeping with...
05:48 PM, Apr 10, 2013
Chandigarh: The Punjab and Haryana High Court on Saturday temporarily stayed the hanging of a rape-murder convict, Dharampal Singh, in Haryana. A division bench of Justices AK Mittal and Gurmeet Singh Sandhawalia stayed the hanging of the convict following a petition filed by NGO, Lawyers for Human Rights International. The petition was filed by lawyer Navkiran Singh. Dharampal Singh, 45, a resident of Haryana's Sonipat district was first convicted for...
03:30 AM, Apr 07, 2013
New Delhi: Expediting the pending mercy petitions, President Pranab Mukherjee upheld execution in five cases and commuted death sentence to life term in two others. Details of President's decision were not available immediately. Seven cases of multiple murders, including one in which a convict, who was out on bail on rape charge, killed five members of the girl's family, were sent to the President for final decision in February. The...
09:47 AM, Apr 04, 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
Samsung Electronics is taking to the Big Apple to reveal its next big challenge to Apple Inc.: a successor to its top-selling Galaxy S III smartphone. ...
01:14 PM, Mar 14, 2013
The Bombay High Court has restrained the Maharashtra Government from allowing excavation of sand in drought-hit villages, saying it would cause shortage of potable water for people and animals. ...
12:56 PM, Mar 12, 2013
Ending its silence, Wharton School has backed the organising committee of Wharton India Economic Forum (WIEF) on cancelling the address of Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, but regretted the confusion caused as a result of the change in program. ...
04:47 AM, Mar 05, 2013
