Have you ever wondered what would it be like if your mother disappeared one fine day? What would you go through if you were unable to locate her? What would you go through knowing that your mother has disappeared for good? 'Please Look after Mother' by Kyung-Sook Shin is about a mothers disappearance and written with great empathy and emotion. The mother has disappeared in a crowded Seoul subway station,...
01:55 PM, Apr 18, 2012
New Delhi: A Delhi court on Tuesday dismissed the bail plea of Syed Mohammad Kazmi, accused in the Israeli Embassy car blast case, saying that there was "no substance" in the arguments of the defence counsel. Kazmi will continue to be in judicial remand. The journalist was arrested last month in connection with the February 13 terror attack. Kazmi, 50, who claimed to have been writing for Iranian publications, was...
04:52 PM, Apr 03, 2012
New Delhi: Promoters of Essar Group and Loop Telecom, named as accused in a case flowing out of the 2G scam, on Saturday appeared before a Delhi court. Essar group promoters Ravi and Anshuman Ruia and Loop Telecom promoters IP Khaitan and Kiran Khaitan moved their bail pleas after they appeared before Special CBI Judge OP Saini. The court listed the matter for arguments on bail pleas for April 21...
11:48 AM, Mar 31, 2012
Fatehgarh Sahib: Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal on Friday defended the state government's seeking clemency for death convict Balwant Singh Rajoana saying since the mercy plea of the other co-accused was pending in courts it was not at all justified to hang him till the outcome of these appeals. Badal said that the state government had taken this stand "keeping in view the sentiments of the people and in...
12:36 AM, Mar 31, 2012
The government asked 15 paramilitary companies to be deployed ahead of Balwant Singh Rajoana's hanging on March 31. ...
02:52 PM, Mar 27, 2012
New Delhi: The government's petition seeking a review of the Supreme Court verdict assailing the first come first served policy in the 2G case as flawed and instead favouring auction of the national resources to maximize the state's revenues will be heard by a new bench. The new bench will have Justice GS Singhvi along with another judge. He, along with Justice (retired) Asok Kumar Ganguly, had pronounced the 2G...
01:22 AM, Mar 04, 2012
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Friday quashed criminal proceedings against Yahoo India, which was summoned along with 20 other websites to face trial for allegedly hosting objectionable content on their web pages. "The summons issued against Yahoo India is set aside," Justice Suresh Kait said while allowing the plea of the website that the lower court wrongly issued the process against it, without attributing any specific role to...
06:35 PM, Mar 02, 2012
New Delhi: Online search engine Yahoo India's plea challenging the summons issued to it by a magistrate for allegedly allowing objectionable content on its site, will come up for hearing at the Delhi High Court on Friday. The High Court has also sought a response from the Delhi Police in the matter. A lower court had on December 23 issued summons to 21 websites, including Google and Facebook, for allegedly...
08:53 AM, Feb 10, 2012
New Delhi: Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee on Saturday welcomed the 2G trial court's order on P Chidambaram, dismissing the plea against him by Janata Party president Subramanian Swamy. Welcoming the verdict, Mukherjee said, "Someone was unfairly persecuted. Even in the Supreme Court's order, it was never mentioned that the (then) finance minister's (P Chidambaram) directive was ignored. Rather, it was the Finance Ministry that was mentioned by the SC." Meanwhile,...
03:02 PM, Feb 04, 2012
New Delhi: BJP leader Ravi Shankar Prasad, while reacting to the 2G trial court's order on Saturday dismissing Janata Party President Subramanian Swamy's plea against Union Home Minister P Chidambaram in the 2G scam, said that the order was not going to impact their campaign against the UPA and Chidambaram. "BJP will continue to insist on the accountability of the government both inside and outside Parliament. We have ample evidence...
02:19 PM, Feb 04, 2012
Chennai: The Madras High Court adjourned till March 27 the hearing on the petitions by the three men convicted for assassinating former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi to commute their death sentences, while the Tamil Nadu government filed an additional affidavit in support of their pleas. The court had on August 30 last year stayed the death sentence of Murugan, Santhan and Perarivalan in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case. This trio...
11:06 AM, Jan 31, 2012
Bangalore: The Karnataka High Court on Monday posted to Tuesday the anticipatory bail applications of former chief minister BS Yeddyurappa and housing minister V Somanna in connection with an alleged land scam case. Justice Subhash B Adi posted the matter after hearing the matter and conclusion of submissions by special public prosecutor Lokayukta TM Gayatri. Besides Yeddyurappa and Somanna, the latter's wife had also sought relief in the case. Earlier,...
04:08 AM, Jan 17, 2012
New Delhi: The bail pleas of former Union Minister Sukhram, whose interim bail is expiring on January 16 in a 1993 telecom scam, and two others will be taken up in the Supreme Court on Monday. A bench headed by Justice P Sathasivam, would also hear the bail plea of the veteran politician's co-accused former bureaucrat Runu Ghosh and Hyderabad-based businessman P Rama Rao. The bench had on January 9...
11:41 AM, Jan 15, 2012
New Delhi: The Centre has told the Supreme Court that no time limit can be fixed for disposal of mercy plea of a death convict and the court cannot prescribe a time limit for it. In an affidavit filed in the apex court, the Centre said the powers conferred on the President to decide a mercy plea are special powers which cannot be interfered with. "The powers under Article 72...
06:45 PM, Jan 10, 2012
Bangalore: The Karnataka High Court on Monday adjourned to January 12 applications of former Chief Minister BS Yeddyurappa and Housing Minister V Somanna and his wife for anticipatory and interim bail in an FIR against them alleging irregularities in denotification of land. When the applications came up for hearing, Justice Subhash B Adi adjourned the petitions after arguments in the matter remained inconclusive. Counsel for Yeddyurappa, Ashok Haranahally, said the...
10:23 PM, Jan 09, 2012
New Delhi: The NIA on Saturday told a Delhi court that it did not recognise the plea bargain reached between David Coleman Headley and the US administration and that India should start the process to extradite the American Lashkar operative as soon as possible. "We don't recognise David Headley's plea bargain with the US... India should start the process to extradite the American Laskhkar operative." Last month, the NIA had...
12:00 PM, Jan 07, 2012
Ajmer: The Rajasthan High Court on Tuesday dismissed 80-year-old Pakistani virologist Dr Khalil Chishti's plea challenging the life imprisonment awarded to him in a murder case. That sentence had come after a 19 year long trial during which he was virtually under house arrest. The mercy plea of Chisti, who is now lodged in Ajmer jail, is pending with Rajasthan Governor Shivraj Patil. His family had met the Governor of...
04:07 PM, Dec 20, 2011
Mumbai: The Bombay High Court is likely to pronounce its order on the bail application of Emile Jerome on Tuesday in the Neeraj Grover murder case. The court on December 14 heard the bail plea of Jerome, who was convicted in the case. In July this year, Jerome was sentenced to 10 years rigorous imprisonment for murdering executive Neeraj Grover, while the other convict, his ex-girlfriend and Kannada actress Maria...
10:27 AM, Dec 20, 2011
New Delhi: The mercy plea of decade-old Parliament attack case convict Mohd Afzal Guru was among 14 other such applications pending decision by President Pratibha Patil. Replying to an RTI query, the President Secretariat declined to disclose copies of correspondence and file notings related to Guru's clemency petition, saying they were "records of deliberations of the Council of Ministers, secretaries and other officers". The President's office had received a total...
02:26 PM, Dec 13, 2011
New Delhi: Cooling his heels in Tihar jail since February this year after his arrest for his alleged role in the 2G spectrum case, former Telecom Secretary Siddharth Behura on Friday approached the Delhi High Court to know the fate of his bail plea on which the court had reserved its order over a week ago. Appearing for Behura, counsel Aman Lekhi pointed out to Justice VK Shali that his...
08:19 PM, Dec 09, 2011
