New Delhi: The Centre on Thursday steered clear of the controversy over Tamil Nadu Assembly asking the President to reconsider the mercy pleas of Rajiv Gandhi's killers but said as long as death sentence is legal, courts will continue to award it. "Since there are court proceedings, I can't comment on anything concerning the decision taken by the President or the resolution passed by the Assembly," Home Minister P Chidambaram...
05:53 PM, Sep 01, 2011
Chandigarh: Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal has written to President Pratibha Patil to re-examine Davinder Pal Singh Bhullar's mercy plea. The letter has been written under pressure from Sikh groups, who have taken a cue from Tamil Nadu Assembly's resolution seeking clemency for Rajiv Gandhi's killers. Badal has written to the President asking for review of the he death sentence of Bhullar, who is on the death row after ...
12:09 PM, Sep 01, 2011
Chandigarh: Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal has written to President Pratibha Patil to re-examine Davinder Pal Singh Bhullar's mercy plea. The letter has been written under pressure from Sikh groups, who have taken a cue from Tamil Nadu Assembly's resolution seeking clemency for Rajiv Gandhi's killers. Badal has written to the President asking for review of the he death sentence of Bhullar, who is on the death row after...
12:09 PM, Sep 01, 2011
London: A rare copy of the Beatles hit single 'Please Please Me' signed on both sides by all four members of the band has fetched 9,000 pounds at auction in the United Kingdom. The 1963 record was sold by a Liverpool woman who asked the group to sign it after listening to them at the city's Cavern venue as a youngster. The "very, very rare" item was among 322 lots...
06:22 PM, Aug 28, 2011
Bangalore: Scam-hit Karnataka former chief minister BS Yeddyurappa on Friday failed in his bid for anticipatory bail and for cancelling a police probe into corruption charges against him, a day ahead of his court appearance in illegal land deals cases. Justice L Narayana Swamy reserved orders on Yeddyurappa's anticipatory bail plea to on Monday. This leaves the former chief minister to spend a tense day apprehending possible arrest on Saturday...
07:25 PM, Aug 26, 2011
New Delhi: The Supreme Court will on Friday hear the bail pleas of three jailed corporate executives of Reliance ADAG arrested in connection with 2G spectrum allocation scam. The bail petitions of ADAG Group MD Gautam Doshi, President Surendra Pipara and Senior Vice President Hari Nair are listed for hearing before a bench headed by Justice GS Singhvi. The trio have challenged the rejection of their bail plea by the...
08:37 PM, Aug 25, 2011
New Delhi: Should Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru's case be fast tracked? The Congress admits there should a be a time-frame. "So long as the constitutional rules do not provide for a specific time limit, this is bound to happen. You will have different persons taking different time periods because no time limit is provided," said Congress spokesperson Abhishek Manu Singhvi. Afzal Guru's mercy petition is pending with President Pratibha...
07:09 AM, Aug 12, 2011
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Thursday dismissed the bail plea of former Telecom Secretary Siddhartha Behura, arrested for his alleged role in the 2G spectrum scam. "The bail application is dismissed," Justice Ajit Bharihoke said. "Prima facie involvement of petitioner (Behura) in the conspiracy to cause undue advantage to Swan Telecom Pvt Ltd is apparent," the court said. "This gives a glimpse of the quantum of monetary gain...
03:13 PM, Aug 11, 2011
Lahore: A constitutional petition has been filed in a Pakistani court seeking the disqualification of Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani for allegedly committing "high treason" by defying orders of the Supreme Court and attempting to subvert the Constitution. A man named Allah Baksh Gondal filed the petition in the public interest in Lahore High Court on Tuesday through lawyer A K Dogar, who is also counsel for Jamaat-ud-Dawah chief Hafiz...
08:42 AM, Aug 10, 2011
Mumbai: The Bombay High Court on Wednesday dismissed a petition filed by the controversial Adarsh Housing Society seeking de-freezing of its bank accounts. The CBI had in January frozen two bank accounts of the Society after registering a case against 14 accused including several members of the society. A division bench of justices Ranjana Desai and RV More was hearing a petition filed by the Society seeking de-freezing of its...
11:50 AM, Jul 27, 2011
United Nations: Asking the United Nations to put pressure on India to not carry out death sentence on Devinder Pal Singh Bhullar, hundreds of Sikhs gathered near the UN headquarters and protested against his death penalty. Gurpatwant Singh Pannun, legal adviser of Sikhs for Justice said that the group had written to Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon reminding him that the UN General Assembly had passed a resolution that called on nations...
08:13 AM, Jul 26, 2011
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday issued notices to the Centre and the Delhi government in response to Devender Pal Bhullar's mercy plea, who has been convicted in a Delhi car bomb blast case and sentenced to death. The apex court also clarified that there will be an automatic stay on the execution of the convict as long as the petition is in the Supreme Court. Pleading that a...
10:59 AM, Jul 11, 2011
BJP leader Jaswant Singh has virtually gone against his party line and questioned the manner in which DMK MP Kanimozhi and other 2G spectrum scam accused have been denied bail. Speaking to CNN-IBN Singh said that bail can't be denied while the trial in the case is still on. He further said that putting the accused in jail is affecting investments in India. Singh added that he is saddened and...
03:31 PM, Jul 01, 2011
New Delhi: The case of Kim Davy, the key accused in 1995 Purulia arms drop case will come up for hearing on Thursday in a Danish High court. India is hoping for his extradition. Niels Christien Nielsel @ Niels Hocks @Kim Davy is the main conspirator in dropping sophisticated arms and ammunition in West Bengal's Purulia district on the night of December 17, 1995. As many as 300 Bulgarian-made AK-47...
07:35 AM, Jun 30, 2011
New Delhi: The Rajasthan government is considering the mercy plea of 80-year-old Pakistani prisoner Dr Khalil Chishty who's been in a jail in Ajmer for some 20 years. The family of the man he was convicted of murdering is now opposing his release, demanding that his plea be quashed. The family of the Idris - whose murder Chishty has been convicted for - is opposing his release Dr Khalil Chisty,...
08:23 AM, Jun 28, 2011
New Delhi: Pleading that a mentally imbalanced person should not be executed, the wife of terrorist Devender Pal Singh Bhullar has urged the Supreme Court to quash his death penalty and commute it to life term. In a fresh writ petition filed by senior counsel K T S Tulsi, the convict's wife Navaneet Kaur submitted that carrying out the death penalty would amount to 'cruelty' and would be 'inhuman' and...
10:27 AM, Jun 26, 2011
New Delhi: Minutes after the Supreme Court dismissed the bail plea of DMK MP Kanimozhi, an accused in 2G scam case, the three other accused, including Swan Telecom promoter Shahid Usman Balwa, withdrew their pleas for similar relief from the Delhi High Court. "In view of the apex court's order granting liberty to the accused to move fresh bail plea before the special CBI court, I would not like to...
06:07 PM, Jun 20, 2011
Mumbai: A sessions court on Monday deferred the plea of Enforcement Directorate (ED), seeking permission to question Pune-based stud farm owner Hasan Ali Khan for three days in a case of alleged money laundering, till June 17. Khan, who is in judicial custody in connection with money-laundering and tax evasion, is currently admitted to St George Hospital for treatment. In a separate development, the ED told the court that it...
04:40 PM, Jun 07, 2011
On Talking Point, Rajdeep Sardesai asks, 'Does a Khalistani terrorist like Bhullar deserve mercy?' ...
10:20 PM, May 30, 2011
New Delhi: After Afzal Guru, now it's Devinder Singh Bhullar whose mercy plea has become the subject of political one-upmanship. Rejected by President Pratibha Patil, both the ruling Akali Dal and the Congress have sought clemency for the Khalistani terrorist. But those who fought terror have opposed the clemency. Bhullar was sentenced to death by a trial court in 2001, for plotting terror attacks on Punjab SSP Sumedh Singh Saini...
09:51 PM, May 30, 2011
