New Delhi: Aruna Chadha, an accused in former flight attendant Geetika Sharma's suicide case, moved a bail application in a Delhi court on Friday. A close associate of Chadha told IANS that her bail plea would be heard in the court of Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Devender Kumar Jangala on Saturday. Chadha was an official of the now-defunct MDLR Airlines where Geetika too worked. She was arrested on August 8...
09:30 AM, Sep 01, 2012
New Delhi: A Bill seeking to bar death row convicts for waging a war against the nation from making mercy pleas to the President is likely to be introduced by a Shiv Sena member in the Rajya Sabha on Friday. The Private Members bill being moved by Bharatkumar Raut has come close on the heels of the Supreme Court upholding the capital punishment for Pakistani terrorist Ajmal Kasab in the...
09:26 PM, Aug 30, 2012
New Delhi: After the Supreme Court upheld the death sentence of 26/11 convict Ajmal Kasab, the big question remains whether his execution will be delayed just like that of Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru. Afzal Guru's death sentence was upheld by the apex court for carrying out the Parliament attack in 2001, but he continues to live as his mercy plea lies pending with the President. Guru applied for mercy...
08:19 AM, Aug 30, 2012
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Tuesday asked the Centre to accord a personal hearing to VHP leader Sadhvi Ritambhara and pass a reasoned order on her plea for issuance of a passport for ten years instead of one as she frequently visits abroad for giving religious discourses. "The present petition (of Sadhvi) be treated as a representation by respondent (Regional Passport Office of the External Affairs Ministry) and...
06:11 PM, Aug 28, 2012
Mumbai: With heavy showers bringing respite to heat-stricken Mumbaikars, the Meteorological department is expecting the pleasing weather to continue. According to Met department officials, the presence of an offshore trough in the west coast brought in heavy showers to city yesterday, and with the trough getting stronger, the city can expect showers for the next 24 hours. Confirming the same, V K Rajeev, director Indian Meterological Department (IMD), said, The...
05:24 PM, Aug 28, 2012
Alappuzha: The SNDP Yogam has decided to withdraw the petition filed before the Supreme Court against the decision of the state government to implement 10 per cent reservation for the economically backward belonging to the upward communities in the state. SNDP Yogam general secretary Vellappally Natesan has said that the Yogam has also decided to withdraw the impleading petition filed before the Supreme Court. The Jamaat Council had filed petitions...
01:30 PM, Aug 28, 2012
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Tuesday reserved its verdict on former Haryana minister Gopal Kanda's anticipatory bail plea. Kanda, who is the chief of the now-defunct MDLR Airlines, has been charged with abetting the suicide of his former employee Geetika Sharma. During the hearing, police told the court Kanda's custody is vital for the investigation. According to the police's lawyer Kanda's custody was needed to find the source...
05:20 PM, Aug 14, 2012
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Thursday dismissed a petition of YSR Congress leader YS Jagan Mohan Reddy challenging his arrest in a disproportionate assets case. A bench of justices Aftab Alam and Ranjana Prakash Desai, however, sought response of CBI on a separate petition by Reddy, who is an MP, seeking bail in the matter. The apex court issued notice to the investigating agency after senior counsel Ram Jethmalani,...
11:33 AM, Aug 09, 2012
New Delhi: In a major relief for Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader and Maharashtra Transport Minister Gulabrao Deokar, the Supreme Court on Tuesday stayed the Bombay High Court order cancelling his bail plea in connection with a housing scam. Deokar had been named in the Jalgaon Housing Society scam. Following the HC order, the minister filed an appeal in the apex court, which stayed his arrest till August 21. ...
03:07 PM, Aug 07, 2012
New Delhi: The Aurangabad bench of the Bombay High Court on Monday rejected the bail of NCP leader and Minister of State for Transport Gulabrao Deokar. He was arrested in connection with the Jalgaon housing society scam. NCP Maharshtra chief Madhukar Pichad has said that the party has sought Gulabrao's resignation. Between 1995 and 2000, Deokar was member of the Jalgaon Municipal Council The scam pertains to the construction of...
01:29 PM, Aug 07, 2012
Mumbai: Less than 24 hours after Pranab Mukherjee was elected as the 13th President of India, parties that favoured him are already trying to extract their pound of flesh. Shiv Sena supremo Bal Thackeray, through party mouth piece 'Saamna', wants Pranab Mukherjee to begin his presidency by dealing with the long pending issue of Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru. The editorial says the new President should immediately reject Afzal Guru's...
09:25 AM, Jul 23, 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 has said. Sheikh, who met Sarabjit in Lahore jail on Thursday, in an email to the prisoner's daughter Swapandeep, said that her father had signed the letter addressed to Zardari for his mercy...
01:11 PM, Jul 13, 2012
Islamabad: In a major breakthrough in the Indo-Pakistan relations, President Asif Ali Zardari has pardoned Indian prisoner Sarabjit Singh, converting his death sentence to life imprisonment. According to the Pakistani media, the India prisoner will be released from the jail in the country following the orders. Reports further said that the Law Ministry of Pakistan had sent proposal for the release of Sarabjit to the Interior Ministry. Sarabjit, an Indian...
07:18 PM, Jun 26, 2012
New Delhi: The Rashtrapati Bhavan on Monday defended its granting mercy to some death row convicts saying the power to pardon is not a private act of grace by the President but a part of the constitutional scheme of things. "Article 72 does confer on the President the power to grant clemency. However, in the exercise of these powers, the President is not supposed to act on her own judgment...
06:59 PM, Jun 25, 2012
Bangalore: The CBI on Monday told the Karnataka High Court that there was a prima facie case against former chief minister BS Yeddyurappa and his kin in the illegal mining case which required their custodial interrogation. Opposing the anticipatory bail application moved by Yeddyurappa and others, CBI counsel Ashok Bhan submitted a prima facie case had been made out with instances such as agreement between state-owned Mysore Minerals Limited and...
01:31 AM, Jun 19, 2012
New Delhi: The Karnataka High Court on Monday is set to hear the bail petitions filed by former Chief Minister BS Yeddyurappa and his family members. They were questioned by the CBI regarding their alleged involvement in the granting of mining licenses to private companies, land grabbing and illegal denotifications. The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Saturday questioned former Karnataka chief minister BS Yeddyurappa's two sons and son-in-law in...
07:39 AM, Jun 18, 2012
New Delhi: The trial in the Aarushi-Hemraj double murder case has been adjourned till June 8. The case was adjourned due to the death of a member of Ghaziabad Bar Association. Aarushi's parents, Nupur and Rajesh, have been charged with murder and destruction of evidence. Apart from this Rajesh Talwar has been charged with misleading the probe. Nupur Talwar's bail plea was rejected by the Allahabad High Court last week,...
11:31 AM, Jun 04, 2012
New Delhi: A special court on Tuesday is expected to pronounce its order on the bail applications of 7 accused in the Adarsh housing scam. They are former defence officials, AR Kumar, MM Wanchu, RC Thakur and TK Kaul, former senior IAS officers PV Deshmukh and Pradeep Vyas and former Congress MLC Kanhaiyalal Gidwani. All the accused have sought bail on the ground that CBI had not filed a chargesheet...
06:50 AM, May 29, 2012
Ranchi: Terming Aarushi murder as a tough case due to delay in getting the case, the CBI on Saturday felt early handing over the matter could have enabled it to gather solid evidence. "The CBI gets such cases very late. It gets such cases only after the state police and forensic experts finish their investigation. So, we don t have much time to get crucial evidence and it becomes difficult...
06:48 PM, May 12, 2012
New Delhi: A Delhi court is likely to hear on Friday arguments on the bail plea of former Telecom Minister A Raja who is in custody since his arrest on February 2 last year and is facing trial in the 2G spectrum allocation scam case. The CBI will on Friday file its reply on the bail plea of Raja, who had moved his first bail application on Wednesday after over...
03:24 AM, May 11, 2012
