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
Thane: A local court on Saturday rejected the anticipatory bail plea filed by builder SP Agarwal, accused in the Navi Mumbai builder Sunil Lahoria murder case. Lahoria was shot dead outside his office in Sector 28 of Vashi, Navi Mumbai, on February 16. Police have arrested eight persons, including shooters Venkatesh Shettiar, Wajid Qureshi, developer Sumit Bacchewar and former encounter specialist Emmanuel Amolik. However, three builders - Suresh Bijlani, SP...
03:45 AM, May 19, 2013
Ghaziabad: A special Ghaziabad CBI court is likely to record statements of Rajesh and Nupur Talwar in the Aarushi-Hemraj double murder case on Friday. The statements could not be recorded on Tuesday, as scheduled, because the petition of the Talwar couple to summon 14 'crucial' witnesses in the case was pending in the Allahabad High Court. While the special CBI court on Tuesday slammed the "delaying tactics" allegedly being adopted...
09:39 AM, May 17, 2013
Ghaziabad: A special CBI court in Ghaziabad will record the statements of dentist couple Rajesh and Nupur Talwar on Tuesday in connection with the murder case of their daughter Aarushi and domestic help Hemraj. The recording could not take place on Monday as the Talwar couple requested the court to grant them some time to file their petition, seeking summoning of 14 witnesses in the Aarushi-Hemraj murder case trial, in...
08:59 AM, May 14, 2013
New Delhi: The wife of 1993 Delhi blast convict Devinderpal Singh Bhullar moved the Supreme Court on Tuesday for a stay on the execution of his death sentence. The Supreme Court says that she will have to approach the same bench that delivered the verdict. The Supreme Court had earlier this month rejected the mercy petition of Bhullar, who had sought commutation of his death penalty to life sentence on...
12:44 PM, May 07, 2013
Even as the political debate remains charged about the execution of Khalistani convict Devender Pal Singh Bhullar, the man who treated him for more than 2 years in Delhi says his team's medical input should have been taken into account. He makes it clear that death row convicts' cases need to be treated case by case. ...
12:04 PM, Apr 25, 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
Indore: A special CBI court on Monday rejected the bail plea of two accused in the murder of RTI activist Shehla Masood. Saquib Ali `Danger' and Tabish Khan, the alleged shooters accused of executing the murder in 2011, were refused bail by Judge Anupam Srivastava. The accused had filed the bail applications in December 2012 and the court completed hearing the arguments on them by defence lawyer and CBI prosecutor...
12:35 AM, Apr 16, 2013
New Delhi: A fast-track court on Monday sought Delhi Police's reply on the plea of one of the accused in the December 16 gangrape case for 15 days interim bail on the ground he has see his ailing mother in a hospital. Additional Sessions Judge Yogesh Khanna asked the police to file its reply by Tuesday on accused Akshay Singh's plea to visit his mother, who he says is in...
07:34 PM, Apr 15, 2013
New Delhi: Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal and his deputy Sukhbir Singh Badal on Monday met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh seeking clemency for Khalistani terrorist and 1993 blast convict Devinder Pal Singh Bhullar, whose mercy petition was turned down by the Supreme Court. "We have submitted a memorandum to the Prime Minister seeking clemency for Bhullar," said the Punjab CM after meeting Manmohan Singh. Parkash Singh Badal has been...
12:18 PM, Apr 15, 2013
Chandigarh: Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal and his deputy Sukhbir Singh Badal will meet Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Monday, in connection with the death row convict Devinder Pal Singh Bhullar case. "Both Badals will meet the Prime Minister tomorrow (Monday) to seek commutation of death sentence of Bullar to life imprisonment," HS Bains political advisor on national affairs to Badal said in Chandigarh on Sunday. Earlier, Akal Takth,...
10:03 AM, Apr 15, 2013
Chandigarh: Security was on Sunday stepped up across the Punjab in the wake of uneasy calm among the radicals after the apex court had rejected the petition of Khalistani terrorist Devinderpal Singh Bhullar to commute his death sentence. The deployment of police have been increased by mobilising Punjab Armed Police and Indian Reserve Battalion personnel at all district levels, top police sources said in Chandigarh. Besides, the state government is...
04:53 AM, Apr 15, 2013
Chandigarh: Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal and his deputy Sukhbir Singh Badal will meet Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Monday, in connection with the death row convict Devinderpal Singh Bhullar case. "Both Badals will meet the Prime Minister tomorrow to seek commutation of death sentence of Bullar to life imprisonment," H S Bains political advisor on national affairs to Badal told PTI in Chandigarh on Sunday night. Earlier, Akal...
12:30 AM, Apr 15, 2013
Chandigarh/New Delhi: A day after the Supreme Court turned down the plea of death row convict and Khalistani terrorist Devinder Pal Singh Bhullar for commutation of his death sentence to life term, the Punjab Police has been been asked to step up security across the state. Delivering the operative portion of the judgement in a packed room, a bench of justices GS Singhvi and SJ Mukhopadhaya had said that the...
11:21 AM, Apr 13, 2013
Amritsar: Reacting sharply to the Supreme Court's verdict on Khalistani terrorist Devinder Pal Singh Bhullar, Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) on Friday said the judgement was "the death of democracy". "There are two kinds of laws in India. One kind of law is for the Sikh minorities and the other is for the rest of the country," SGPC president Avtar Singh Makkar said. He added the bureaucratic setup of the...
05:00 PM, Apr 12, 2013
Reacting to the Supreme Court's verdict on Bhullar's mercy plea, lawyer of Rajiv Gandhi's killer M Radhakrishnan says the decision of the apex court has come as a big disappointment for him. "A Constitution bench of the SC had held that mere delay of 5 years or more for those who are facing death sentence to seek commutation to life sentence. I think the SC has been very harsh towards ...
12:32 PM, Apr 12, 2013
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday will pronounce the much-awaited verdict on the petition of Devinderpal 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. Bhullar was sentenced to death in 2003 for carrying out a bomb blast outside the Delhi Youth Congress office in 1993. He had approached...
06:06 AM, Apr 12, 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
On the eve of a Balasore court taking up bail petition of former Odisha Law Minister Raghunath Mohanty and his wife for consideration, their daughter-in-law on Monday demanded the arrest of the two other accused in the dowry torture case slapped by her. Mohanty and his wife Pritilata, arrested from Howrah district of West Bengal on Saturday and produced in the court at Balasore, were sent to jail till Tuesday....
02:45 AM, Apr 02, 2013
In a landmark verdict, the Supreme Court of India dismissed a plea by the Swiss pharmaceutical giant Novartis on Monday for a patent on its cancer drug Glivec, paving way for more affordable life saving cancer drugs. "Generic companies will have a levy that will allow them to survive in India for a considerable period of time," said Anand Grover, lawyer, Cancer Patients Aid Association. ...
02:14 PM, Apr 01, 2013
