New Delhi: A special Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) court on Thursday granted bail to R K Chandolia, the private secretary of former telecom minister A Raja, in connection with the 2G spectrum allocation scam. Chandolia was granted bail on a personal bond of Rs three lakh. However, the court reserved its order on the bail plea of former telecom secretary Siddharth Behura. Behura was arrested along with former telecom...
08:29 AM, Dec 01, 2011
New Delhi: The Supreme Court is expected to hear Khalistani militant Devender Singh Bhullar's mercy petition on Tuesday. The Khalistani militant had been sentenced to death for triggering the 1993 Delhi car bomb attack that killed 12 people. He had filed a mercy petition before President Pratibha Patil in January, which was rejected in May. Bhullar's counsel had argued that the death penalty should only be handed out by a...
07:30 AM, Nov 15, 2011
New Delhi: No government department seems to have any information about the tours and travels undertaken by the UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi as an RTI application kept moving to different ministries without any substantial response. The case relates to an RTI application filed by one Kailash Kanwar of Bhilwara in Rajasthan who sought to know about the foreign visits undertaken by the UPA and National Advisory Council Chairperson during the...
05:34 PM, Nov 08, 2011
New Delhi: Former Karnataka chief minister BS Yeddyurappa's bail hearing in a second graft case is set to come up before the Karnataka High Court on Tuesday. The court granted partial relief to Yeddyurappa in one of the two corruption cases relating to alleged irregularities in denotifying government land for personal gains on November 3. The former chief minister will be released from judicial custody and will be set free,...
06:41 AM, Nov 08, 2011
Bangalore: The Karnataka High Court on Friday granted Kannada actor Darshan conditional bail. Conditions include that he will not do anything to destroy evidence. The court has also asked Darshan and his wife Vijaylakshmi to appear before it on October 13. The actor was jailed on charges of attempt to murder on his wife Vijaylakshmi. The Karnataka High Court on September 22 adjourned the bail application of Kannada actor Darshan,...
11:14 AM, Oct 07, 2011
Bangalore: The bail plea of Kannada actor Darshan will come up for hearing in the Karnataka High Court on Friday. The actor has been jailed on charges of attempt to murder on his wife Vijaylakshmi. Earlier a lower court rejected his bail plea despite his wife seeking to withdraw her complaint. The Karnataka High Court on September 22 adjourned the bail application of Kannada actor Darshan, arrested for allegedly assaulting...
08:50 AM, Oct 07, 2011
New Delhi: Rajya Sabha MP Amar Singh on Monday moved the Delhi High Court seeking bail in the 2008 cash-for-votes scam. The former Samajwadi Party leader decided to move the High Court after a Delhi court on September 28 rejected his bail plea. Meanwhile, the Delhi High Court on Monday sought the medical report of the former Samajwadi Party leader from AIIMS by October 12. The court also issued a...
11:55 AM, Oct 03, 2011
New Delhi: A Delhi court will hear the bail pleas of BJP leader LK Advani's former aide Sudheendra Kulkarni and former BJP MPs Mahavir Singh Bhagora and Faggan Singh Kulaste in the cash-for-votes scam case on Monday. The court has also decided to watch the footage of the sting operation conducted in the run up to the 2008 trust vote in Lok Sabha on the trust motion by Congress-led UPA...
08:42 AM, Oct 03, 2011
New Delhi: A special court in Delhi is slated to hear the bail plea of DMK MP Kanimozhi on Saturday. The DMK leader has been in Tihar jail since May 20 for being an alleged beneficiary in the 2G spectrum allocation scam. Kanimozhi had on September 16 applied for the bail at a special Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) court in Patiala House along with Kalaignar TV managing director Sharad...
07:31 AM, Oct 01, 2011
New Delhi: A Delhi court on Wednesday rejected former Samajwadi Party leader Amar Singh's bail plea in the cash-for-votes scam. Singh will continue to be in judicial custody at AIIMS. His both interim and regular bail pleas were rejected. Special Judge Sangita Dhingra Sehgal relied on the medical reports to reject both the bail applications of the former Samajwadi Party leader who is undergoing treatment for his kidney ailments at...
05:50 PM, Sep 28, 2011
New Delhi: The Supreme Court will hear Devendar Pal Singh Bhullar's amended plea for mercy on Wednesday. The Khalistani militant was sentenced to death for masterminding the 1993 Delhi car bomb attack that killed 12 people. His counsel has allowed to argue that the death penalty should only be handed out by a constitution bench and not if there is a split verdict. The apex court had earlier dismissed Bhullar's...
07:42 AM, Sep 28, 2011
Bangalore: The Lokayukta court on Thursday adjourned to Friday further arguments in the bail application filed by former chief minister BS Yeddyurappa in one of the complaints alleging irregularities in denotification of government land by him. Special court judge NK Sudhindra Rao adjourned the hearing of the application filed by Yeddyurappa in the private complaint in which nine others including his sons, BY Raghavendra, BY Vijayendra, son-in-law Sohan Kumar, former...
12:53 AM, Sep 23, 2011
Bangalore: The Lokayukta Court on Wednesday said it would pass orders on October 3 on the bail applications filed by former Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yeddyurappa in two complaints alleging irregularities in denotification of government land by him. Lokayukta Special Court Judge NK Sudhindra Rao asked the counsels of both sides to conclude arguments by September 24. Objecting to the bail, senior counsel for the complainant CH Hanumantharaya said Yeddyurappa...
09:11 PM, Sep 21, 2011
Bangalore: The Lokayukta court on Tuesday adjourned to Wednesday, the hearing on bail applications of former Karnataka chief minister BS Yeddyurappa and others regarding two complaints alleging irregularities in denotification of government land by him. Special Lokayukta judge NK Sudhindra Rao adjourned the hearing after senior counsel for the complainant CH Hanumantharaya's objections to the submissions made by senior counsel for main accused (Yeddyurappa) Ravi B Naik remained inconclusive. Submitting...
10:18 PM, Sep 20, 2011
Bangalore: A Bangalore court on Tuesday rejected the bail plea of Kannada film actor Darshan. The actor was arrested on September 9 for allegedly assaulting and threatening his wife. City Civil and Session Court judge B R Budihal dismissed the bail application moved by Darshan. Darshan was arrested on September 9 on a complaint by his wife Vijayalakshmi. A magisterial court last week declined to grant him bail. Darshan's counsel...
08:16 AM, Sep 20, 2011
New Delhi: Former Samajwadi party leader Amar Singh's bail plea will come up for hearing on Thursday in the cash-for-votes scam. The Court on Tuesday asked for a full report on Singh's health from AIIMS and Tihar Jail following suggestions that the initial medical reports were misleading. Amar Singh is in special care at the hospital for Kidney related problems. Amar Singh needs psychiatry consultation for his "anxiety and restlessness",...
08:07 AM, Sep 15, 2011
Ahmedabad: The Gujarat High court on Wednesday admitted the appeal of the state government seeking enhancement of the sentence of 20 convicts in the 2002 Godhra train burning case from life imprisonment to death. The appeal was admitted by the division bench of justices DH Waghela and JC Upadhyaya. A special court in March had convicted 31 people and acquitted 63 others in the train burning case. The court had...
10:09 PM, Sep 14, 2011
New Delhi: Rajya Sabha MP Amar Singh, arrested for his alleged role in 2008 cash-for-vote scam, was on Monday night admitted in All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) following a rise in creatinine level in his body, Tihar jail spokesman Sunil Gupta said. Amar Singh was hospitalised late on Monday evening at Delhi's AIIMS hospital, just a day before the court is to decide on his interim bail. The...
07:37 AM, Sep 13, 2011
New Delhi: Mining baron and BJP leader Janardhana Reddy's bail application will come up for hearing on Wednesday. The petitions of Reddy and his brother-in-law Srinivasa Reddy will be heard at the special CBI court in Hyderabad. The agency arrested the former karnataka tourism minister and BJP MLA on Monday. Srinivasa Reddy, MD of Obalapuram Mining Company (OMC) was also arrested by the CBI for alleged illegal mining on the...
07:55 AM, Sep 07, 2011
New Delhi: The Supreme Court has allowed Devender Pal Bhullar, who has been given a death sentence, to amend his clemency petition. Bhullar was convicted in a Delhi car bomb blast case and sentenced to death. Bhullar's counsel has been allowed to plead that the death penalty should only be handed out by a constitution bench of the apex court and there should be no death penalty if there is...
12:32 PM, Sep 05, 2011
