New Delhi: Modifying a trial court order, the Delhi High Court on Tuesday said the Investigating Officer and the Public Prosecutor can interview the prosecution witnesses "before hand" in the Commonwealth Games-related graft case involving sacked Organising Committee chairman Suresh Kalmadi. Justice Kailash Gambhir said, "The order is modified to the extent that the duo can interview the prosecution witnesses before hand."
The court modified the trial court's March 14 order which had barred both Investigating Officer (IO) and Public Prosecutor (PP) from having access to the prosecution witnesses who are yet to be examined. The court also issued notices to Kalmadi and other accused in the case and sought their replies by July 12 on the CBI's plea challenging the special court's order.
During arguments, CBI Special Public Prosecutor Dayan Krishnan cited a Supreme Court ruling and said that PPs have the right to interview the witnesses to know what stand they have to adopt while recording of their statement. He also said that "by this order the (trial) court is facilitating witnesses to turn hostile."
In its plea, CBI informed the high court that so far 10 out of 64 prosecution witnesses have been examined in the day-to-day trial of the case. Kalmadi's counsel, however, argued that trial court had questioned the conduct of PP and alleged that some witnesses were seen in the company of IO and PP in the court on the date of their examination....
03:16 PM, May 14, 2013
Rome: Prosecutors have urged a Milan court to hand a six-year prison sentence and life ban from office to former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi for having sex with a minor and for abuse of power. Prosecutor Ilda Boccassini asked the court to give Berlusconi five years in jail for corruption and one year for paying an underage prostitute for sex. Moroccan belly dancer Karima el-Mahroug, nicknamed "Ruby the Heart Stealer",...
10:48 AM, May 14, 2013
Islamabad: The Pakistani prosecutor handling the 26/11 Mumbai attack case and the Benazir Bhutto assassination case has reportedly been shot dead in Islamabad. Chaudhry Zulfiqar, the prosecutor of Federal Investigation Agency (FIA), was shot dead by unidentified armed men in Islamabad on Friday morning, Pakistan's Geo News reported. Reports say unidentified armed motorcycle-borne men opened fire on Chaudhry Zulfiqar. He was critically injured and was being rushed to the hospital...
09:22 AM, May 03, 2013
Kochi: The Suryanelli gangrape survivor on Friday withdrew her request to appoint Special prosecutors to contest the appeals of the 35 accused in the case in the Kerala High Court. However, the court permitted the survivor to make an application to appoint a counsel of her choice to assist the prosecution. Earlier, the government had informed the court that her request to appoint two special prosecutors - Suresh Babu Thomas...
07:09 PM, Apr 12, 2013
The CBI on Saturday concluded its arguments in the trial of Congress leader Sajjan Kumar and five others in a 1984 anti-Sikh riots case, rebutting the defence and said the nature and extent of crime shows the vast network and larger conspiracy behind it. "The nature and extent of crime, protection to the perpetrators, disappearance of evidence and non-registration of cases show that there was a vast network and a...
12:59 AM, Mar 24, 2013
A military prosecutor in Rome is questioning the two Italian marines that the Indian government is insisting return to face trial in the deaths of two Kerala fishermen. India and Italy are in a standoff over the case. ...
09:37 PM, Mar 20, 2013
Moving forward in its probe into alleged kickbacks in the VVIP helicopter deal, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has procured some documents from Italian authorities in Milan that may help it investigating whether any Indian had received bribes to swing the deal in favour of AgustaWestland. Highly-placed sources in the probe agency said on Sunday that one of the members of the CBI team who returned Sunday morning from...
06:02 PM, Feb 24, 2013
CNN-IBN's political editor in Europe, Sanjay Suri, spoke to Italian legal experts to try and find out whether India can gain access to the Italian probe report on AgustaWestland deal. ...
11:04 AM, Feb 19, 2013
Audio tape linking Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) prosecutor AK Singh to 2G scam accused Sanjay Chandra will now be part of the status report, a week after CNN-IBN's 2G collusion expose, sources have said. The status report is set to be presented to the Supreme Court on Monday. ...
07:29 AM, Feb 18, 2013
The CBI chief admits to the JPC there is evidence of prima facie collusion between its sacked 2G prosecutor and Unitech MD. ...
11:35 PM, Feb 12, 2013
A day after the big CNN-IBN expose in connection with the 2G spectrum allocation scam case, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) director appeared before the Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) on Tuesday, and admitted to a collusion between its prosecutor AK Singh and Unitech MD Sanjay Chandra. Also, the CBI has sent the tapes for forensic examination. According to sources, the probe may widen to focus on other accused as...
06:59 PM, Feb 12, 2013
Mishti, who plays Subhash Ghai's protagonist in 'Kanchi', is not the filmmaker's discovery. ...
10:27 AM, Jan 29, 2013
Bollywood producer Boney Kapoor will debut in the Bengali film industry by producing the remake of his own 2005 superhit Hindi comedy 'No Entry'. "Jeet, Sahara and I will be soon doing a film and that will be No Entry," Kapoor said at the music launch of Bengali film 'Dewana' starring Jeet. ...
12:52 PM, Jan 14, 2013
British detectives investigating the death of a nurse found hanged after she took a prank phone call at a hospital treating Prince William's pregnant wife Kate have passed an evidence file to prosecutors, police said on Saturday. Public prosecutors must decide whether the case is strong enough to bring charges over a stunt that was condemned around the world and fuelled concerns about media ethics. ...
01:42 PM, Dec 23, 2012
Egypt's chief public prosecutor, forced to quit this week after opposition protests, retracted his resignation on Thursday, setting the stage for more turmoil as the nation votes in a referendum on its political future. Prosecutor Talaat Ibrahim, appointed by President Mohamed Mursi when he assumed sweeping new powers last month, said he had changed his mind because his resignation on Monday had been offered under duress. ...
09:52 PM, Dec 20, 2012
The author, Altaf Tyrewala, joined IBNLive readers for an interaction on his new book 'Ministry of Hurt Sentiments'. ...
02:36 PM, Dec 18, 2012
Aamir Khan is being approached for the title role of a cancer stricken journalist in the Hindi version of 'Sukrutham'. ...
06:22 PM, Dec 10, 2012
Hyderabad: The Andhra Pradesh cabinet on Friday refused to give permission to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to prosecute a senior state cabinet minister in YSR Congress party leader Y S Jaganmohan Reddy's illegal assets case. The state cabinet, chaired by Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy, rejected the CBI request to sanction prosecution of Roads and Buildings Minister Dharmana Prasada Rao. Minister for Information and Public Relations D.K....
10:02 AM, Nov 24, 2012
London: Five elite Royal Marines have been charged with murder over the death of an insurgent in war-torn Afghanistan in 2011, the British Ministry of Defence announced on Sunday. Seven marines were arrested on October 11 by the Royal Military police. Two more were later arrested, one on Friday and one on Saturday. Four have been released without charge pending further inquiries, the Ministry of Defence said. The marines were...
03:00 PM, Oct 14, 2012
